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Comment on Episode 396: Tell Me More, Tell Me More by lemur
The Podcasters didn’t quite get to it, but I think the link between the BTTF discussion in connection with Rick and Morty on the one hand, and the nostalgia latency period discussion in connection with...
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Comment on Episode 396: Tell Me More, Tell Me More by Mark Lee
BTTF cashed in on 50’s nostalgia in the 80’s, right? But you are on to something w/r/t to the length of time it takes for nostalgia for a certain era to come in. In my Karaoke Quotient article from a...
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Comment on Episode 397: Hardcore Normal by Rambler
Response to demographic survey: white male 35-40 checks etymonline.com more than once per week hair status: somewhere between “receding” and “scattered resistance in the face of overwhelming odds” …...
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Comment on Episode 397: Hardcore Normal by Emil
Blessed be Rachel D! Demo: white male (duh) 35-40.
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Comment on Musical Talmud: Hotline Bling by Stokes
That’s interesting, and does make sense of “hotline,” in the sense of “dedicated phone for a single purpose.” (Now I kind of want to see a video mashup of “Hotline Bling” and the Adam West Batman.) But...
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Comment on Episode 397: Hardcore Normal by jmasoncooper
So I watched the “Formation” music video before I listened to your comments about Beyonce in the half-time show, so I am not sure if this is the right place for these thoughts, or if they should be...
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Comment on Neko Atsume: Cat Collection Game or Silicon Valley Human Resources...
You are right that companies have a lot of expenses other than variations on snazzy office toys, but the Morale Officer or whatever you call it is not the one making those purchases – so your analogy...
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Comment on Deadpool 101 by Stokes
So my takeaway from this is that any Deadpool that’s faithful to the text is going to be, essentially, a parody of the superhero movie. Is the character always wacky and self-aware? Do any writers play...
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Comment on Deadpool 101 by Mecha-Shiva
“Well actually,” Deadpool debuted in ’91 (1993 was his first solo series, but he’d been in New Mutants and X-Force before then), so Harley in ’92 is the more recent character.
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Comment on X-Files and the Gnostic Turn by jmasoncooper
Thank you for explaining the Gnostic plot. I think the biggest offenders (if you think gnostic plots are bad) are espionage entertainment. Again the principle plot device is uncovering the secrets of...
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Comment on X-Files and the Gnostic Turn by Stokes
Yeah, spy shows have a tendency to do this. (Alias is another good example.) I don’t think gnostic plots are bad, necessarily — they can be really exciting — but they are tricky, especially in...
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Comment on X-Files and the Gnostic Turn by Peter Fenzel
Yeah, I’d characterize it as the difference between climax and anticlimax, both of which can be done well or poorly. For example, in Die Hard (SPOILERS), when it is revealed that the criminals are not...
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Comment on X-Files and the Gnostic Turn by jmasoncooper
Thank you to both of you @Stokes and @Fenzel. I like the differentiation you shared. Bigger/more-mind-blowing = gnostic, and smaller/satirical = anti-climax. Each can be done well or poorly. Two more...
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Comment on The Nicholas Sparks Guide to Romance by Tulse
Thanks for taking one for the team, guys. While all the snark is fun, I was struck by this:60% of the Sparks canon takes place on the North Carolina coast. Louisiana comes in second, with two; South...
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Comment on The Nicholas Sparks Guide to Romance by Stokes
So Cape Fear, just top of my head, but you make a good point. It would be interesting to see if Sparks’s popularity is in any way regional. This kind of thing does sometimes happen: consider the UK vs....
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Comment on The Nicholas Sparks Guide to Romance by Stokes
As to whether the setting is a virtue in Sparks… nnyyyeeemaybe? Most of the films don’t create any real sense of place, at least not to me. It comes through in architectural details and the occasional...
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Comment on Episode 196: The Drum is The Instrument of Love by Pad Gam
the thing about compression, is, it’s incredibly wearing on the ears after a few minutes, something you may wish to think about when recording podcasts. loudness and speaking at 200 words per minute...
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Comment on Episode 197: Birth of a Rhythm Nation by Stokes
I’m just going to leave this here, because it’s awesome: Kate Beaton
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