People did and do bitch that 2001 is slow and boring. They are wrong, but even still. And Star Trek:TMP is noooooo 2001.

Agreed on both points, but I was talking about the current trilogy's story, not the original's.

I'm still waiting for the Cindy Williams version, Shirleephenia.

Fortunately, it's 4:20 here. Then again, it almost always is, most days around 5pm-7pm.

As long as they narratively "complete" the "final" trilogy with IX in a satisfying fashion, I don't care. I can die then, and they can make whatever crappy episodes they like after that.

That was him over-implying in his haste to make his pun. I did a quick double-D-take when I read it too.

$20 William from The Americans. You want to talk about someone who has the stink of death on him…

Needle! Edmure!! BENJEN!!!

D'oh, bortman, you beat me by a few sec— er, sixteen minutes!

October 1980, actually (Cap #250, "Cap For President!"). If you're trying to get the "fact" right.

Agreed, but I'm kind of okay with that… Captain America needs to be somewhat on-the-nose, as it should generally be about big ideas. To me, that is something that goes back to the Gruenwald and Englehart runs.

Ditto on Rebirth. I'm amazed that amid all the Captain America rage, there is no one here writing or posting about the surprise character who has just poked his big blue nose into the DC Universe.

And actually, the Spencer writing is not bad — in fact there is a great scene no one is talking about, of the Red Skull giving a speech to a room of working-class American right-wingers. The Skull is positioned with a decidedly Trumpish slant, railing about the refugee influx in Europe, and adopting the butthurt…

I guess even AV Club is not immune to The Outrage Machine.

I did like how all of Bob Roberts' album covers were meticulous recreations of Dylan albums.

Okay fine, but that doesn't excuse him co-opting that which he so vividly denigrated. On top of which it's Paul Simon taking the piss out of Bob Dylan, which is just several different kinds of backward.

That was Epyx!

If this is anywhere near as good a Leonard adaptation as Justified, it could be quite excellent.

"A Simple Desultory Philippic" is my Hatesong. (Well, one of them.) Here's why. Paul Simon craps on Dylan all throughout the song — it's not a respectful satire. Aside from surface stuff like the nasal vocal imitation, the Dylan figure in "Philippic" is an incompetent poseur who won't quit trying to make folk-rock…

Great movie, one of my favorites! I'll mention some of the surface features I like that I haven't seen covered here: