So this is an interracial gender-swapped retelling of Raising Gazorpazorp? Fascinating.

The explanation I have always heard is this:
1. Buffy dies in season 1 and the Slayer mantle passes to Kendra. Buffy still has all the powers, but the actual chain of succession has moved on.
2. Kendra dies and Faith becomes the Slayer.
3. Buffy dies again.
4. When the gang bring Buffy back to life, they explicitly note…

Shortly after the Banks investigation, Cooper had a premonition of Laura's murder, so he was likely already keeping an eye on the area.

The show explicitly states that Laura died after midnight the night of the 23rd (Donna reads this to Cooper out of Laura's diary) and Cooper says in the very first episode that he's arriving on the 24th.

As an avid consumer of horror fiction, I think there absolutely is a line where it reaches a place that is so far from the acceptable parameters of the inherent sensibilities of a human being that it becomes objectively disgusting.

Don't forget his insane superhero twin Goody Rickles.

I think porno shops will continue to exist until the generation that was of porn-purchasing-age during the period when they were relevant dies off. There's something comforting about knowing that your favourite things will last for your lifetime, be they a book, a TV show, or a purveyor of Backdoor Midget Nurses 5:…

Its true though.
I'm a wealth-sharing, social program-loving, anti-bigotry leftie and even I can see that Trump is the one going against the zeitgeist here. He IS the rebel in this election.

On the topic of Manos, does anyone else kind of like Manos? Not the MST3K episode, but the film itself?

This is true. I'm going to start treating Star Wars the way one has to treat Doctor Who, Transformers, and Marvel/DC: The stuff I like is canon, even if it contradicts itself.

Even as a kid I had trouble believing killing the Emperor and blowing up one space station would end the whole Empire. I like that the EU had the Empire continue to exist in various forms for centuries afterward.

The Force Awakens is terrible as a story, but its pretty fantastic as a thrilling power-fantasy. It reminded me of Hulk: Ultimate Destruction or Prototype in that way.

I liked them. If you could accept that it was intentionally going for a very different tone from the films, New Jedi Order was a very cool series and I think the Vong are a part of that tonal shift. I've heard people complain that they feel more like Warhammer 40k aliens than Star Wars aliens, which is accurate, but…

The well known novels are all pretty good. Like Thrawn Trilogy -> Dark Empire (Comic) -> Jedi Academy -> Hand of Thrawn -> New Jedi Order -> Legacy of the Force is a great sci-fi/fantasy reading list.

IIRC Timothy Zahn said (in a Reddit AMA I think) that it was safe to consider anything that doesn't egregiously contradict new material canon.

Fantastic! I've loved all the pseudo-MST3Ks we've gotten since it went off the air (Rifftrax, Cinematic Titanic, The Film Crew, etc.) but none of them have had quite the same magic as the original series. I hope to see the focus be on 1950s-60s B-movies as that was always what MST *meant* to me.

You're right. It was The Dark Knight Returns that had Reagan breaking the term limit.

Good god it actually did. Over a billion worldwide. That's depressing.

Didn't the first one bomb horribly? I don't get why they'd choose THIS to give a sequel to.

Older books from different times can be so interesting to read to a child. You have to have those "Now this isn't okay now because…" explanations that teach them even more than the book was originally intended to. I think its a good way to introduce them to the way attitudes change and to history.