Don't forget the midstep, where the Illinois GOP reached out to Mike Ditka first, but he backed out due to family commitments. He also said he had something of a hair trigger temper and hard convictions, and was afraid he might just go off if pushed. Realizing they wanted something of a more sedate candidate, the GOP…

My bad, then. Didn't know the depths of the angle.

It's a great example of the barrier some "equal opportunity offenders" put up in their minds - just because you're drawing on this stuff and perpetuating it to a mass audience to gin up laughs/anger/investment, doesn't mean you actually BELIEVE it, and think that it'll just stay put.

There's also word that Robinson had to run interference to keep things from being worse.

Like I said, it's very much a matter of personal opinion - hence why I listed the Dorian plot. But there are some cases I run into where it seems like "it's forced/it's shoved in" is a more subtle way of saying "I don't mind these homosexuals, as long as they aren't shoving it down my throat." I remember a seeing a…

Yeah, I doubt this is as much about converting as it is dragging the matter out into the light - 'This is where the line is for some people." Like… I understand there's always the concern of "Am I handling political matters/representation/Big Issues in the best way possible here?" And I've seen plenty of cases where…

Yeah, which was itself supposed to be a take on the trend of primetime dramas that wanted gay characters but didn't want to be, y'know, GAY. So we had infamous moments like cutting right the hell away from Matt kissing a dude on Melrose Place to one of the other characters watching him through the blinds until the…

Have you seen some of the footage (read: iPhone shot videos on YouTube) from Battle of the Seasons? Alaska does Laganja in the Snatch Game with an "OKRRRRRRR" that sounds like the mating call of a bird that was rightfully hunted to extinction.

"Either I have walked into the world's saddest bondage parlor, or villainy is afoot."

Stuff posted on social media also suggests that someone (most likely Eric) is leaving the show. Shame.

Then there's LoEG: The Black Dossier, where 1984 is rendered up in Tijuana Bible-style as part of the propaganda generated during "Britain's brief flirtation with Ingsoc."

Some creators are affixed to a particular city and don't want to break from it - from what I hear, the entire cast of Law & Order took pay cuts rather than face the prospect of having to move filming to LA. But other times, yeah, it's based on what you can get for how much and how willing you are to make it look like…

It says a lot about the general tack of the script reading career that I've read two incredibly stupid scripts about the perils of GMO corn. I'm under various degrees of confidentiality for both of them, so I can't name names or reveal too many details, but…

Then you occasionally get stuff like the LaRouchites, who I believe are less "ardent conspiracy theorists" and more "philosophical zombies meant to act as a violent ideological reaction to whatever you hold true."

'Guys, this is SO not Illinois."

One of the little details I appreciated about The Winter Soldier is that they made it clear that SHIELD is on THAT side of the Potomac.

I feel like this is one of those cases where a direct answer might trigger feelings of mortality in other posters. So I will simply say that I've not paid close attention to: the career of Tom Selleck; the unadapted filmography of Michael Crichton; or Saturday afternoon cable offerings, so this one has slid under my…

i think it's more the issue that, while Reynolds delivers the cockiness, it's also weighed down by Standard Origin Story Cliches (daddy issues, the moment of angst at the overwhelming responsibility) and applied in some very weird ways (like the fight with the workers that shows how his ring works - this is a movie,…

Apparently the parameters have now been expanded to "summer-linked blockbuster franchise," as someone noted on Twitter that a number of the Matrix trilogy installments did not come out during the summer season. Ergo, as The Mask was originally a summer movie, Son of the Mask counts.

Well, best of luck, man. Hopefully both our entries will get demolished.