Life on this planet peaked with the Shaggs.

Peaked? Maybe more like 2003 or 2005. Or, hell, 1995. Yo La Tengo, Superchunk, and Guided By Voices, among others, have been playing "Indie Rock" (whatever that is) since the 80s.

L'chaim!

As much as I think the David Lynch version is virtually definitive (I kinda got bored at times reading the book) and don't necessarily like repeated trips to the same well, anyway, how does this qualify as a 'remake' and not a 'new adaptation?'

Wooo! Nuance! \m/ (* v *) \m/

Prince was a little bit of a jerk in general. Not outlandishly so, but slightly more than your average person, who is also admittedly kind of a jerk.

"The copter pilot from Road Warrior."

Done and done.

Oh! That one! I got the impression it was hard to find, since it was of dubious legal status.

That's what a cursory Google search told me, but who better than random, unvetted nerds (my people) to verify.

Does Han shoot first? Even my wife, who is not a rabid Star Wars fan, was upset by that change. She won't let a version into the house that includes that edit.

I haven't seen the original trilogy in years (due to the Lucas edits). Weren't there supposed to be some Bothans involved in all of this?

I'm sure somebody said this, but I'm surprised it wasn't cancelled like two years ago.

Well, that's just obvious.

That's like asking someone which testicle they want cancer in.

That's absolutely spot on.

It was what shitty people I knew in college listened to…when they weren't listening to 311.

Well, that's certainly in the plus column.

That's what makes the most sense. Of course, I was discussing with someone else that maybe I've just become wired (due to the Wire) to expect realism in TV, when the producers of the show aren't making certain choices for realistic reasons, but instead to move the story along. In other words, I could be looking at…

Have you noticed how often characters in the midst of committing criminal acts handle objects with their bare hands? In some shows that would be a major plot point, but in others it's just a way not to get bogged down in half of the episode being about cleaning up the crime scene.