A young-kid friendly on-ramp to Indiana Jones (minus the racism and sexism of Temple of Doom)? I approve of this movie.

You’re the guy not flushing the toilet, aren’t you?

That makes sense, given how close ONT is to LA, but without being as crowded as LAX or John Wayne, or as unusual looking as LAX or Burbank.

Audra McDonald should send this episode to the Emmy voters immediately. The complicated mix of her emotions was amazing.

It was also a very early book by Gaiman. From a writing standpoint, it’s nowhere near as well done as Ocean at the End of the Lane or, especially, Graveyard Book.

Reimagining and remixing it, as the show did in the first season, was the right call.

Pop songs can work really well in these movies (see: Guardians of the Galaxy) and I get why they did it here, to reinforce the pop culture of the time. I just thought they could’ve been a little more creative.

I think you can point to where the NYT’s “we” attitude comes from, pretty clearly.

I would love to hear the argument for anime. I run into people baffled that I don’t find it appealing, but haven’t ever found anything that could get me past the way over the top acting and general larger than larger than life storytelling.

Worse: Andy Serkis is playing all the Muppets.

Is anyone going to want any books after this show wraps, other than Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring?

The Rani needs to come back ASAP.

Wait, you can be on a team if you have bone spurs?

Lots of people, with regular exposure to durian, don’t like it.

They’re sold at Long John Silver’s, too. They may not be universally known, but one doesn’t have to go far off the beaten path to find them.

Jesus, iZombie has gone completely off the fucking rails.

Yeah, as a kid, it was so obviously transgressive in a film clearly aimed at kids. (I don’t think my parents even saw the ending when I watched it on VHS, having left the room by that point.) I cackled with glee.

I suspect the Time Bandits’ appearances will be expanded. Other than the Napoleon sequence, their height doesn’t really matter to the story, as I recall.

I think it’s hard to overstate how poorly Lee was doing in the last two years of his life.

Fun trivia fact: Alfred Hitchcock was also playing Uatu the Watcher.

Work for hire.

And if we’re wanting Thomas and Colan to cameo, realistically, this incarnation of Captain Marvel owes at least as much to Kelly Sue DeConnick.