My favorite thing about David Lynch is that he proves you don’t have to be a world-class asshole in order to be a world-class weirdo.

Before Lower Decks premiered, CBSAA ran a promo campaign about the back-to-back seasons, hyping it as “23 straight weeks of Trek!”

Did you read the book? It’s a good deal more than just listing things from the 80s. But... you are also putting way too high a ceiling on what pure nostalgia can deliver.

I’m giving him exactly the correct amount of credit, and no more.

I thought it was a fun harmless gag, but I assume the reason it got pulled is that Xbox has been leaning really hard into a “play nice with others” brand strategy, which includes responding with kind words of encouragement to people on Twitter who say they’re getting a PS5 instead of an XSX/S this gen.

For what it’s worth “Ready Player One” didn’t really make any logical sense as a title for the previous book, yet it was a good title for it.

People need to stop being annoyed by Ernest Cline and this franchise. Built into the very core of it is nostalgia for a very specific era of pop culture and reveling in well-worn narrative tropes, aka: experiencing the things you love over and over again.

How do you do an entire article about this and not mention the most important factor in the USA Mario 2's favor?

No, that was a different character, whose death scene was also part of the original Phase II pilot script that was the basis for The Motion Picture.

Lot of the references to specific movies will be obvious, but I think one most people won’t catch is the use of Star Trek III’s Klingon Bird of Prey. That movie was its first appearance, but it’s more than that because here we see that movie’s version of its bridge set, with the throne-like captain’s chair, which was…

They’d had better be. The first one was a mediocre movie, but it was ruined to time by an gross white savior narrative and the offensive reliance on native mysticism that I can’t imagine is at all salvagable going forward.

I’m glad he’s having fun playing golf and Nick Fury (in that order) these days, but I remember back when Samuel L Jackson was actually a really good actor. Like, knock-your-socks-off powerful, in roles where he didn’t sarcast his way though every scene and/or spend half of his screentime holding a gun.

It’s unknown if there will be stock in February (although I’d bet there will be). But also, yes, people’s lives will be impacted. It’s four months of next-gen gaming. It’s a good Xmas for their kids in this year of pain and strife. It’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but no one is saying it is.

Sorry to break it to you, but Rob Lowe is a conservative.

I was really expecting this to make a case for American Dad having grown out of its origins as an way for liberals to get away with telling sexist/homophobic/transphobic/racist jokes, but no.

It’s the point, actually. That we’re at once the same and are still each totally unique.

I don’t understand this kind of trip.

It’s a fine bit of music, I guess, but it sounds like every other action movie theme I’ve ever heard, with long swelling notes on top of fast indistinct rumbling percussion and with almost no driving melody or guiding rhythm.

Stop Making Sense is a pivotal film (not just concert film, but film), but an influence on “American New Wave,” a genre that reached its apex a few years prior to that film’s release, it was not. 😆

Yes, this is an after-bedtime, room service breakfast, or post-museum/pre-dinner thing. It’s why they put TVs (with free HBO!) in hotel rooms in the first place. Don’t act like it’s some foreign concept.