I really appreciate how fully realized the characters are, but the gore and gross-out elements, the just generally stressful situations, the flippant attitude toward humiliation, and the dystopian attitude toward death make the show a tolerance watch for me. I’ll watch the next season, I think it will be worth watching as always, and I enjoy the commentary. I just don’t think that I could say I’ll enjoy watching it as I normally use that word.

As a reminder, Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is nearly 62 years old.

Such a waste. I didn’t know who he was, but no one should die over a couple hundred dollars of metal. Just 37.

I think you might have meant “epithet,” but since that is specifically about a word or phrase, “caricature” is probably the closest match.

The original, unmodified trilogy was a pretty archetypal hero’s journey for Luke (or rather, a series of journeys within the larger character journey). It was well done, reasonably cohesive, and had strong themes, owing in no small part to Gary Kurtz (producer for the first two movies), Marcia Lucas (editor on the first and third movies and uncredited contributing editor on the second), and Irvin Kershner (director for the second movie).

It began to fall off the rails a bit in the final movie when Lucas asserted more control, resulting in Kurtz’s departure, but ultimately in my judgment it stuck the thematic landing.

The rest were… ehhh…

We saw what happened with the prequel trilogy without those collaborators to rein him in and add actual human emotion. It’s not good, but it’s uncharitable to lump the original (again, unmodified) trilogy in with them.

The sequels were just completely incoherent.

Part of the problem is the unmodified originals have been effectively disappeared for an entire generation, so people who watch the “original trilogy” on disc or Disney+ are actually watching the atrocious CGI versions. It really does make a difference, in my opinion.

The movie is being developed and made in the closest possible collaboration with Shigeru Miyamoto.

Directed by Shigeru Miyamoto

Starring Shigeru Miyamoto as both Link and Zelda

It was 100% a crazy person on the street.

Also it says he was caught because he was yelling at people and harassing them on the street. That’s basically the exact profile of an unmedicated schizophrenic or similar in NYC.

Source: lived in Manhattan for many years.

I liked it, but I feel like one season is enough for the concept.

Severance is phenomenal (fantastic premise, extremely well-executed)

Silo was great (interesting premise, very similar to Fallout but played seriously, without the bizarreness)

Constellation is good (another parallel universe story, but well done with good acting)

Monarch was meh (terribly-written characters and dialogue, but it ended in an interesting way)

I have not yet watched Dark Matter, but I read the book years ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. That said, there are so many parallel world stories lately that I’m beginning to tire of them.

I have not yet watched Foundation, For All Mankind, Dr. Brain, or the others which are reviewed less favorably.

I absolutely hate it

Really glad it’s not a reboot or spinoff, and the premise sounds promising.

I had no idea this show still existed

“This is major prejudice,” Aidala argued in February. “It’s saying, ‘He’s a bad guy. He’s a bad guy. He’s a bad guy.’”

Your client is a bad guy.

This ruling is ridiculous. The purpose of other women testifying was to establish a pattern of behavior. Not in the broad sense, but in the narrow sense of following the same play book each time he attacked a victim.

The 98-year-old actor has been nominated for his guest turn on Days of Our Lives, on which he played an elderly man with amnesia.

“I have played old men before, but ‘comedy old men,’” Van Dyke said of the role last year. “This is the first time I ever just played my 97-year-old self.”

Dick Van Dyke is great. I used to watch him all the time on The Dick Van Dyke Show

Lemmy will appreciate the final thoughts. I especially liked the part about Comic-Con.

What has changed is our awareness of how such things work. There was a time when only the subscribers of Hollywood trade magazines knew much about which movies were in development, to say nothing of which were canned. But audiences today are as intimately acquainted with upcoming projects as they are with the financial maneuvering behind them.

This isn’t just a matter of more of us reading entertainment news. Normal people have been forced to attend to this stuff — baroque tangles of licensing and distribution rights — just to be consumers. Feel like streaming a favorite sitcom? You’ll need to know which subscription matches that media and then keep up with whatever agreements, disputes or mergers will dictate its availability or shift it into another company’s library. Even ownership of media has become an intricate concept. You might “purchase” a movie from a platform like Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV+, but you’re still subject to the vagaries of the deal; things may simply disappear from your digital library because of expiring agreements.

The mechanics have been laid bare, and it is consumers who have been burdened with navigating them. It is particularly maddening that this visibility doesn’t translate to malleability: No matter how well you know the ecosystem, you remain under the thumb of corporate arrangements. […]

Consider too the barrage of marketing campaigns intended to monopolize our attention through every stage of a film’s development, from conception to release. Marvel Studios has its “phases” announcements, in which it outlines years of planned movies and shows in splashy events designed to keep fans in a frenzy about the long-term strategy of a major media company, as though a shareholder meeting has broken out at Comic-Con.

[…] This is one impact of media consolidation: Studios can work very hard to hold your attention before deciding, at the last possible moment, that they’re better off throwing out artists’ work than letting you pay money to see it. “Coyote vs. Acme,” the Warner spokesperson says, “remains available for acquisition.” Just not by you.

OP’s point is that they say this and then follow it with a verbatim quote. It’s dumb.

Someone needs to intercut this with Will Smith eating spaghetti

If this is anything like the book, it’s gonna be great. The book is a really fun read.

It was a nonfiction article about the actual Top Gun school. The author, Ehud Yonay, was not a pilot at the school. There were no original characters, just depictions of actual real-world pilots. I think this was decided correctly.

I don’t know what I’d call this person, but I don’t think it would be “film fan” if Thor 4 and Mario alone made up 10% of the movies seen.

Obsessive compulsive, maybe? Hyper competitive? Bit of both?

It costs $30 on Blu-ray from eBay! Nearly impossible to afford!