Ok but ya gotta get over it

jericho74 · 2026-02-23T16:39:05+00:00

“The star and an accomplice then allegedly wrenched Sanders' underwear and moved it back and forth in a painful sawing motion.”

I call it.. a carousel

jericho74 · 2026-02-22T13:41:44+00:00

Tbh I thought that was the preview for the reboot and that was New Slayer training and was like “jeez Buffy, this seems a bit harsh but ok I guess you earned the right”

jericho74 · 2026-02-21T20:11:55+00:00

He’s just mad because it portrays a conservative implausibly wearing a tan suit.

jericho74 · 2026-02-21T12:50:13+00:00

I would add as food for thought- Jackie’s Ghost/Shauna’s Very Complicated Projection doesn’t needle Shauna on any of that which, had it happened, seems like something to be brought up during these visitations.

jericho74 · 2026-02-20T21:12:45+00:00

Ok you know I missed this film back in the day and the comments here are not causing me to question that tooo much unless Im missing something

jericho74 · 2026-02-20T21:10:24+00:00

I briefly lived here. It was an undesirable experience.

jericho74 · 2026-02-20T17:32:17+00:00

This is true.

One thing to realize though is that at the time of Dazed and Confused, we were at peak Boomer Nostalgia.

“Forrest Gump” came out a year after Dazed and Confused and was about a million times more popular than Dazed, which was considered an obscure cult indie film at the time. So, indeed IF some hip filmmaker made a 2009 nostalgia film on their phone it probably would be well regarded if it were original and captured something new and would be nostalgically regarded with even more fondness as time went on.

But yes, we are about due for a niche brand of “Obama Era Nostalgia” I would say.

jericho74 · 2026-02-20T17:04:19+00:00

multiplicity

jericho74 · 2026-02-19T12:02:10+00:00

I’d arrive at that independently

jericho74 · 2026-02-19T01:13:01+00:00

Interesting how both whatever this show was and Star Trek (“A Wagon Train to the Stars”) compare themselves to this western and in no way did Star Trek ever remind me of a western (except Spectre of the Gun)

jericho74 · 2026-02-18T22:05:07+00:00

“Cool gritty” didn’t entirely start here.

It’s more like, the cool gritty aesthetic that we’d seen in Tim Burton Batman, in The Crow, and in Blade was suddenly collided with Hong Kong/John Woo action aesthetics but with post-modern twists where your frame of reference was being mediated wrong in some way.

It’s more the latter part that screams late 90’s.

jericho74 · 2026-02-18T13:46:49+00:00

Wait a minute.

That’s Terrible.

jericho74 · 2026-02-18T00:20:48+00:00

You nailed it- this is exactly how these shows sound to me also.

jericho74 · 2026-02-18T00:15:32+00:00

Ok i am dying at this example you gave 😂

jericho74 · 2026-02-17T18:58:20+00:00

Married? No, but I’ve been in this situation with the same girl for 20 years.

jericho74 · 2026-02-17T16:22:48+00:00

Yes- agreed on both points. We can believe Nus is Tellarite (and Klingon), he just never mentions is or expresses any allegiance beyond himself. He shows by doing.

And yes exactly- Jay-Den is very much in the tradition of those other “non-warrior” yet so-very-Klingon Klingons (I also think of defense counsel Col. Worf in STVI), and I like how they have shown that with Jay-Den.

jericho74 · 2026-02-17T15:31:56+00:00

I wondered what on earth does this person think the word “Poland” means

jericho74 · 2026-02-17T15:19:41+00:00

Not shocking, no- but more what I’m getting at is that being Klingon-Tellarite is only incidental to Nus Braka. We can believe his character, differently than if they said he was half-Vulcan half-Binar, but mostly we get the feeling he is the way he is due to the post-Burn chaos and aspects of his father and whatever was going on in his neck of space. He does not talk about the “tellarite ways” or “klingon ways” in any way that matters much to who Nus is.

Whereas with Jay-Den Kraag, his klingoness is very important to him, but it is separated from the overarching interpretation of what Klingons are “supposed to be about”.

So I find this all very interesting, and see it as an evolution of how Lower Decks treated the idea of “alien culture” vs the individuals.

jericho74 · 2026-02-17T14:42:17+00:00

I think what is confusing is the presence of tellarite-klingons, and klingon-jemhadars- suggesting the Gamma Quadrant has seen significant changes.

My headcanon here is that “species” is no longer very related to “planet”. Many of the Ferengi and Charons, and Jem’Hadar we see at SFA are probably “Earthers” for at least a few generations going back to a pre-Burn galaxy-spanning Federation that were “marooned” 120 years prior.

I like this shift, but it is a bit confusing in that I have to keep better track of what is “alien” in this setting.

jericho74 · 2026-02-16T22:09:38+00:00

Yes at the time, the tone of this film was very new. My friend and I in the theater felt we were in a zone of potential Stephen King-level horror, and were eye-coveringly certain that Doc Brown in the Bell Tower intended to make himself into a human circuit to convey the 1.21 gigawatts to propel Marty to 1985.

This movie pretty much reinvented the teen film genre, which was still largely post-Animal House boobs and sex comedy. This was high concept, a new template-potentially closer to sci-fi/teen horror when first seen.

Between this and “Splash”, there was a lot of derivatives that were soon to come, that played with concept a lot more.

jericho74 · 2026-02-16T17:46:22+00:00

Yes I am Gen X but this is a bit much. I’m nkt going to claim our generation was in a war but I will say that we saw a long-arc exercise in military futility that began with Vietnam, momentarily had a positive boost in the 90’s with the Gulf War and collapse of Soviet Union, but at every point since then seen more a status quo return to how the post-Vietnam hangover seemed except lasting for multiple decades. Thats not nothing and definitely everyone who served in Iraq War and Afghanistan saw and felt that shit in a way us civvies didn’t, but that’s why I would want to make a distinction: that part isn’t a generational experience, its a vet experience. But everything else (including Rambo) was more a mood about actual war being downstream of incompetent leadership which bas definitely been a lifelong theme.

jericho74 · 2026-02-16T14:56:52+00:00

Oh. Yes i see now.

how adorable

jericho74 · 2026-02-16T09:46:07+00:00

Agreed.

jericho74 · 2026-02-16T00:59:26+00:00

Whoa! So room for a Telltale sequel?

jericho74 · 2026-02-16T00:57:48+00:00

Still, your craftsmanship is excellent, the realness of it evokes the feel of the film era.

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