You gotta mention the new Papyrus skit!

He would film Family Ties during the day, hop in a van and take a nap while he was driven to the set of Back To The Future at night, back in the van, repeat.

“...And having a catch phrase is half the battle!”

Ok, but that’s apples to oranges. Michael J. Fox wasn’t famous for fucking a queen.

Up your nose with a rubber hose, Elrond.

It’s also so much of a nothing story — “MJF says people who get famous on social media for seemingly no reason wouldn’t have been famous in the 80s because there was no social media”... Well, he not wrong.

Yeah, people looking for a reason to be angry will take it to mean that, for example, a young ACTOR in 1984 had to be more talented than a young ACTOR in 2024 to be famous — which is not what he said. Sure, there have always been the “famous for being famous” (but not actually having any talent for anything) people —…

I don’t think he’s talking about Timothee Chalamet. I think he means more YouTubers and TikTokers and other such “influencers” who are “famous” because they do a dance or model a piece of clothing.

That may be less Rogue’s ostensible power level and more the kind of story being told now, and the intended audience. The Saban cartoon from the 90s was bloodless in the way GI Joe and Ninja Turtles was, all lasers and exploding robots with few to no depictions of actual physical harm on human beings, aside from…

“The wasteland has its own golden rule. Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.”

Neither of you are wrong. People are needed for genetic diversity, that has been established since the whole thing opened with discussions about taboos against inbreeding. But integrating The Raiders by reading them Shakespeare or teaching them calculus is absolutely poking fun at Ivory Tower Intellectuals. They’d be…

Compared to the realism of The Last of Us this felt almost campy. 

Through Episode 2, I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the suspicion this may very well end up working out better as an adaptation than TLOU did.

Dale Dickey, Michael Rappaport, & Mykelti Williamson! This is a Justified-heavy series.

“especially since it’s still not clear what Maximus actually wants, beyond getting to be treated like a hero”

Seems like it’d be better to have Goggins say it later.

Yep. I’ve loved the three episodes I’ve watched so far, but I admit, I was pretty damn disappointed that the first thing we heard wasn’t “War... war never changes.” 

2 episodes in and no Ron Perlman narration! other than that, its pretty pretty good.

The ghoul’s gun resembled a gyrojet pistol - a gun that shoots rockets. Not actually in the Fallout games (unless you count mods, which maybe the people behind this series have used!) but it is an oddity firearm from the 1960s so it fits right with the whole vibe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet

Agreed this episode was fantastic no notes