Kel Varnsen

I just watched this episode yesterday. The squad car was the last car in the driveway so it having a flat tire blocked everyone else in. Sure the could have backed the car up a little and drove tbe other cars around on the lawn. But they didn't know where the kids were going, so the kids just needed enough time to get out of sight.

I find it interesting that she believes in "traditional marriage" but at the same time does the whole last name hyphen thing. So she believes in her own very specific definition of tradition that doesn't cause any inconvenience to her but would affect a lot of other people in a negative way.

Yeah what I read was that she turned in a story treatment and that got rejected. To me that said they shot down her story idea for the third movie, not necessarily that there isn't going to be a 3rd one. And considering how dumb the story for WW84 was, maybe that's not a bad thing.

But in this episode (The Dive) before any rescue occurs or before they see any Russian Demogorgon, he tells the other prisoners that he fought one in the past. But I can't remember any time where he actually did.

When did Hopper fight a Demogorgon? I have been rewatching the whole series with my daughter and during the feast in the prison he says he fought one, but I can't remember when. In season 1 he was in the upside down with Joyce trying to find Will when the DG faced El at the school. In season 2 he fought Demodogs, but in Russia he specifically mentions a 9 foot Demogorgon. In season 3 there were no Demogorgons, and his plotline was more to do with the Russians than the upside down stuff. And then he was in prison. So unless he fought one off camera when he jumped through the gate when did it happen?

It's kind of funny, since season 2 happened my wife and I watched all 15 seasons of ER and there Garret Dillahunt played Linda Cardellini's ex. So it was weird to see him show up here.

They wouldn't even need to explain it as hard living, since I think just about any 70 year old in 1969 is going to look way older than an 80 year old today. Just because people know so much more about diet, and how to take care of your skin in the sun, plus your not surrounded by cigarette smoke everywhere you go anymore. Plus Ford is a very rich 80 year old so that helps. It's like how Ralph Macchio now is older than Pat Morita when they made The Karate Kid.

I am pretty sure that Cotton would not care at all about getting called out on Twitter, considering that people called out his bad behavior to his face and it did nothing. And besides getting called out, I am pretty sure today nothing would happen to someone like Cotton. Now Buck Strickland there is a guy whose behavior would cause him a lot of problems.

How do you figure? I mean Cotton is terrible but it's not like he is someone's boss. I feel like even today a terrible person his age could probably get away with a lot of what he says and does. And if people were to call him on it he would either play the disabled war hero card or the confused (possibly senile) old man card. So I am not sure how he would face any kind of repercussions. I also watched the episode where the Hill's go to Montana to Peggy's family ranch and it is interesting that Peggy also has one pretty crappy parent. Although that episode is also extra funny since everything I have ever read or heard has told me that Henry Winkler is one of the nicest people in Hollywood.

Almost Famous is one of my top 3 favourite movies and Fairuza Balk probably has the most to do of any of the non-Kate Hudson Bandaid characters. Her last scene where she tells Billy Crudup what happened and why he is an asshole is great.

It's a very lame dated reference but is it really an insult? Or would it be like if a normally skinny actor all of the sudden built a ton of muscle and Rock said they were planning on being in the remake of Commando. I am not really sure what is insulting about either reference. It's not like he said she was going to be playing a live action version of Homer Simpson. Either way though I am kind of good with some mocking at the Oscar considering most of the ceremony revolves around kissing celebrities asses.

That's still on NBC to me. They knew the kind of insane workaholic they were dealing with, with Jay Leno. In the War for Late Night book it talked about how he didn't want to take holidays and asked NBC if they could hire back-up writers and a crew so he could produce new episodes all year. So knowing that they should have found a way to keep him working that wasn't the Tonight Show and wasn't the stupid 10pm show or found a way to write a contract so if he wanted to go somewhere else he wasn't allowed to appear on TV for a certain period of time.

But even that doesn't really make sense since there was nothing holding the shackles in place. If you hit it on one side with the hammer it would just move. The idea of a cut kind of makes sense but again how do you do that without crippling someone. Then again Hopper being able to run through the snow in bare feet then get on a snowmobile then run some more and being just fine was also stupid.

I always thought reaction to Peter's mistake in IW was way overblown. I mean it was stupid, but it was totally in character. Lots of other people made big mistakes that were totally out of character. Like Cap is supposed to be a brilliant battlefield commander, but his big plan in Wakanda is to run at the bad guys head on and punch them. Where was the tactical planning like he did in Avengers. T'challa had access to the Wakandan air force and the combat rhinos that we saw in Black Panther, but he decides to what keep them back for the next alien invasion. Even Doctor Strange decides to fight Thanos on Titan rather than use the portal ring to get them and the time stone out of there (either to hide or to gather stronger forces). Hell he could have even used a closing portal like Wong did and chopped Thanos's head off.

I am pretty sure that one of the clips they used for that was from Goodfellas, it was Henry Hill and his friends digging up the body of a made guy they killed and had previously buried.

So I watched this one again with my daughter today and I am still not 100% sure what the other prisoner hitting Hopper in the legs actually did? Did it some how bend his shackles making them easier to get off or did it crunch the bones in his legs making them somehow more flexible (but still able to walk). Also since we have been watching the whole series at a fairly fast pace I noticed a lot more things. And when Max was reading her letter to Billy I wondered if she ever figured out that he got possessed by the Mind Flayer on the night when he was forced to go out and loom for her after she took off?

But even when shows actually show winter people on tv aren't really affected by the cold. I was rewatching the latest season of Stranger Things with my daughter and there is an episode where Hopper is running through snow in Russia in bare feet and there doesn't seem to be any sign of pain or frostbite or anything. Meanwhile I live in Ottawa and the first year I took the bus to work and had cheap crappy winter boots, and my toes would go numb waiting for the bus in winter. But in TV people can be outside in winter for long periods with no issues. The Fargo show was also pretty bad for this.

If people are interested the soundtrack is available on music streaming services. My kids and I maybe have listened to "I don't know what Christmas is" at least twice while decorating tbe tree today.

Although I do wonder, now that we know what Mantis's full powers are, why did she try and make Thanos go to sleep instead of putting her hands on him and telling him to give up the gauntlet.

Wasn't he always? Hasn't Quill talked about Footloose several times?

That was a lot of fun. I think I was smiling the whole time. It was great to actually spend some time with Mantis since she hasn't really gotten much character development and what they did here was really good. Also over the last few weeks I watched Jurassic World 2 & 3 so my expectations for Chris Pratt as an actor are pretty low, but he did great when he found out Mantis was his sister. That kind of made sense when I thought about it. Infinity War Groot was like the young teenager Groot like a 13 year old going through puberty. Now he is like late teens Groot and has actually built up and gotten bigger.

That is sort of where I am at. I mean has there ever been a comic movie that was super faithful to the original source material that was actually great? The only one that comes to mind is the original Richard Donner Superman. And when I think of super accurate comics adaptations my first thought is always Watchmen, which essentially used pages from the comic as storyboards. And while it looked good on screen it was basically pointless because it had nothing new to say. While by comparison I thought the Watchmen miniseries was awesome.

I am definitely more of a fan of Conan's humour than Jay's hacky Bob Dole is old and Bill Clinton is sleazy style of jokes (Homer Goes to College is still my favourite Simpsons episode). But even still I don't really blame Leno for what went down between them. That was entirely the fault of the NBC execs who came up with the idea to give Conan the tonight show during his last Late Night renegotiation and had like 4 or 5 years to come up with a take over plan. And they knew what kind of crazy workaholic, who probably wasn't going to retire, Jay Leno was. So the fact that it was messed up so badly is completely their fault.

Watched it over the last few days and it was pretty good as far as a Netflix light hearted kind of documentary series goes. It was better than the DB Cooper one but not as good as the GameStop one. It probably would have been better if it was just 3 episodes. Especially since, considering that there was no jet in the catalog, it was obvious they were not going to get one. I would have liked a bit more about John's current life. Because he seems impressively chill for a guy who basically had possibly a million dollars offered to him, passed on it and ended up with nothing. Also in the last episode it seemed like a no-brainer to stick with your friend who offered you $700,000 for this whole thing rather than Michael Avenatti. Especially since their bad press campaign would have cost them a bunch more money and they still would have lost in court.

The other thing about general recasting is that I don't think movie fans would accept the whole sliding scale timeline bullshit (where everything in the comics that has happened since 1961 has actually taken place over like 10 years) the same way comics fans do. They would expect some sort of passage of time (and the character growth that goes with it), at least close to real time. But if 10 years after he first appears they recast Peter Parker and he is still in high school I think people would be annoyed. And if after 10 years Tony Stark is a different actor but the same vaguely middle aged cocky playboy I am not sure people would care about him.