Isak Glaser

GO ON was a really lovable show, deserved more seasons

Not as big as mighty Canada

God I hate that Burne invention it is so stupid
Superman should probably have a frenemy who has his exact same deal but also has a turban

Mouse African Union is real if we make it real

Down Draper stealing identities is basically like when the Harlem Globetrotters bring out a ladder, it's time to get down

More sports should have a semi-rigged theatrical version though, really it's just the wrestling and the basketball holding down the fort

if Ads aren't sports then why are they at every Match

The thing is too, I don't think Weiner&co are shy about finding Don Draper cool: Weiner AIRC basically cops to that final ad being hopeful, he thinks there is some Artistic merit to ads, it's not completely soulless to him. And Don's image is of a piece with the ads, I think W finds some value in it

I'm coming clean. Of course George RR Martin finished the Winds of Winter, years ago. It's just that whenever he finishes typing it he shows me the manuscript and I end up eating it. The sick part is I'm not even hungry.

And still a notch above like 4chan-speak

I gotta speak my truth: I think using Trump-speak in your everyday speech is worse than MCU-style dialogue! Bad ideas, badly expressed!

Actually whenever you use the airplane it disintegrates you and reassembles a new body at the destination. That's not you getting off on the terminal in Reykjavik, Mr Spock, that's a whole new person

I haven't read this, but for instance Reading Widely or Reading the Classics as projects you undertake as a reader don't strike me as very far away from more "gamified" approaches to reading in kind

I'm watching the Great Gatsby 1974 and it's a good time, very well executed images right from the book, but besides the constant, soapy zoom-ins and sparkling effects (?) not being to my liking, it really showcases how Nick as the "window pane" narrator adds something really intriguing to the book

It was lightning in a bottle: a good cast, pretty honed committed writers, and relative amount of freedom; but also, while the premise is good and TV-suited, it's not like, brilliant? It's fine - is it really worth a 20y later sequel good? I'm sceptical

I am tentatively excited for the Buffy relaunch (Poker Face writers onboard) but IDK if there's anything to get from the Firefly stone 20 years later, feels like that momentum is unrecapturable

You have to take the sky from me &c
I was thinking if you couldn't do a BSG style flipped concept, but the BSG concept was maybe uniquely begging for reinterpretation

Could try it out to be an American Winston Peters, in rhetoric at least

Hot Fuzz Thought

Yes although as with Buffy *a lot* of it is Whedon (same for Fey, Harmon).
Part of me wonders if you couldn't do a BSG thing though - probably nor, that premise was much more begging to be reinterpreted

See I would agree but I would flip those two and make Star Trek my exception - the constant rebooting but constrained by a corporate umbrella makes those DC/Marvelverses inert to me, all of Star Trek still attempting to tell the same History still gives it life for me

He's been on two longrunning procedurals back to back, he might have enough juice in the industry to will *some* Firefly thing into being

I considered it, but unfortunately I think by 2028 they might still be for some iteration of the current war, bc it'd stI'll be ongoing

In 2032, 2036 at the latest many of the same people will be claiming they are the true antiwar party

Underdiscussed: he's British Diaspora

BLANK is right, it's high time society abolished jokes

The inheritance+discovered family + reconciliation is what you find a letdown I assume- I really like the very final page, something very strange and evocative about the missionary ending. But then I do find missionaries in general fascinating

It's like a less rigorously conceived, more paranoid Deep State

There was like a ten year lull in between Ghaddafi getting got and the Haitian President getting assassinated where no recognised head of state was killed, that might be unprecedented

forumspeak is an aesthetic travesty and I would accept it as irony if I had any faith that people were able to separate ironic usage from becoming sincere, which they very clearly increasingly aren't