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I agree with what Alan Moore, writer of WATCHMEN and V FOR VENDETTA said about conspiracy theories: “The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. ... The truth is far more frightening — Nobody is in control.”

He's always had a fear(justified IMO) of how far scientists are willing to go for discoveries. I remember how freaked he was years ago when he had the guy on to talk about the Hadron collider in Switzerland and the chance it might create a black hole! Sometimes I read something in the news like "Scientists grew a human ear out of the back of a mouse" and you think "WTF?!" So I don't blame him for thinking scientists have gone too far. I don't believe in the Wuhan lab theory because I think a man made virus would have been way worse and also because I don't think anybody could've predicted how stupid people would actually be to take the simplest precautions!

Oxford guy is Inspector Morse. I remember seeing bits of Rumpole and the Bailey. He always called his wife "She who will not be named"!* It wasn't until I was older that I found out it was a reference to an old adventure book by the author of King Solomon's Mines! *ETA correction: It is "She who must be obeyed" which is a lot funnier!

1976 was a great year for him. Not only for that memorable speech in Network, but also a small part in All the President's Men and as a secret agent in Silver Streak after Patrick McGoohan for stealing the Rembrandt letters! I think the joke on American Dad was Roger laughing "Poor Ned Beatty. He can play Rudy's dad all he wants but we'll always remember him being rammed in the woods in Deliverence!"

It also gave us the line "Y'know? For kids!"

I did like Phillip not remembering the other secretary retired a few months earlier and that he gave him a clock!

I just discovered a 50 minute tourism video from 1994 for the island of Jersey in the English Channel hosted by John Nettles a few years after the end of his 1980s detective show BERGERAC(which was set in Jersey). It makes me wish Midsomer County was real so he's do a similar video for it!

I love that there's a meme now of this almost 20 year old scene:

Here's a great Newman story from a recent Graham Norton Show:

Even THE SILVER CHALICE, his first movie which Newman thought was so bad he put out a newspaper ad apologizing for it the day before it aired on TV is interesting on an aesthetic level.

Glad to see Rex again and that the issue with Wrecker had a happy outcome.

Speaking as a devoted longtime Agents of SHIELD fan I'm glad Mobius didn't talk about Coulson coming back from the dead and giving the details how. I had to endure half of season 1 to find out, I don't want outsiders just getting it handed to them by Owen Wilson!

Loki's reactions to the Infinity Stones killed me. The fact that they're being used as paper weights was not only hilarious but really brought home how powerful the TVA is. The institution not individual workers because the latter seem very killable!

He was so funny in just one scene as the radical "Kalinga" in I'M GONNA GIT U SUCKA, the 1988 Blaxploitation spoof directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans: And with Eve (Jan Brady)Plumb as his wife!

It's definitely unique. Like Walter Hill's earlier THE WARRIORS it's this crazy world that is an exaggerated version of the real one which he also sets another mythic quest. This time it's a mash of the 50s and 80s instead of the late 70s NYC. The songs are definitely great. I had no idea the "Hold You Tonight" song is from this movie!

Well people in the thread other then you think he's lame and still want him to be the big bad. It doesn't matter if he learns to be a more formidable villain or that he was injured we still seen him be defeated by Rey. Anyway what's done is done. I think Disney should forward making movies with Finn as a Jedi.

I saw season 7 of Clone Wars late so I wasn't aware of the Martez sisters' low ranking among some fans until I watched this episode. I'm not surprised because Rafa is an asshole. Trace is okay but she drove me crazy by being an idiot and dumping the spice. I thought they were an interesting for one episode when they first appeared but when I realized it was going to be a four episode arc I thought "Oh boy..." I do like that they're like something out of an 80s movie or TV show. Like you'd see them both on Miami Vice or Punky Brewster. That era of gang members with headbands and switchblades. When Ashoka was walking around their neighborhood I expected to see breakdancers and boom boxes! It's crazy to me that era was 30 to 40 years ago.

My argument against Kylo Ren being the sequel big bad is Rey already beat him very soundly in the first movie. She's standing in triumph as he's lying there humiliated. People go on and on about what a lame villain Kylo Ren is especially compared to Vader yet also want him to be the big bad at the end.

They didn't show who the hologram is. Maybe its Ahsoka but I think they would just show her if if was. Everytime I see the level of production design each episode.

Interesting to see original Lucas handwritten outline for 12 episode saga: https://www.starwars.com/news/the-long-winding-and-shapeshifting-trail-to-episodes-vii-viii-ix It was all very vague, the original was going to be "Episode VI" "On December 29, 1975, in conversation with Alan Dean Foster per the novelization of Star Wars, Lucas mentioned the prequel trilogy along with what would become Episodes V and VI: “I want to have Luke kiss the Princess in the second book. In the third book, I want the story just about the soap opera of the Skywalker family, which ends with the destruction of the Empire. Then someday I want to do the back story of Kenobi as a young man – a story of the Jedi and how the Emperor eventually takes over and turns the whole thing from a Republic into an Empire, and tricks all the Jedi and kills them. The whole battle where Luke’s father gets killed. That would be impossible to do, but it’s great to dream about.”' So originally Obi Wan wasn't lying, Vader was not Luke's father. If you read the Leigh Bracket script she wrote after story conferences with Lucas, Luke was going to have a twin sister but it wasn't going to be Leia. So the plan changed a lot but there's was still a plan.

I like this take:

Another good one:

I kind of like that because Courtney was pregnant IRL in the final episodes it looked like Monica was gaining weight when she was about to be an adopted mom. I headcanon she went back to her bigger size after the show ended(and Chandler wouldn't care). More great Matt LeBlanc tweets from Irish Twitter: Buzzfeed article with reasons why Irish people think LeBlanc in the reunion looked like the typical Irish uncle : https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/irish-twitter-matt-leblanc-friends-meme