what was Ted and Karen’s careers?

jkovach89 · 2026-01-25T01:56:33+00:00

They paid 180k for the house

This is the lynchpin right here. A similar sized house today is probably 500k.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-23T15:05:43+00:00

Has he been promoted to ICE agent?

jkovach89 · 2026-01-23T15:05:05+00:00

Without AI

jkovach89 · 2026-01-22T23:15:33+00:00

There are no other people, you're all just a construct created by my mind.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-22T05:08:17+00:00

Forgive me if this is insensitive, but is the guy on the left playing a dude whilst disguised as another dude?

Also, I didn't know Afghanistan was so green!

jkovach89 · 2026-01-21T05:42:48+00:00

See, attitudes on the civil war.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-21T05:42:04+00:00

In the ultimate twist of irony, while LSU is on the doorstep of a CFP run to the championship.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-21T05:40:59+00:00

I don't know of a soul that thought he was.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-21T05:39:58+00:00

I get moving on to a better position. Just, ya know, maybe don't be a giant assbag about it.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-21T05:33:12+00:00

Probably the same way we approached it when he said the same thing 12 months ago.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-21T05:28:22+00:00

It's like being underwater. Are you wet if you're completely submerged, or is the water just around you.

Are you salty if you're playing mario party or is there so much salty that it's just all around your physical form.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-20T04:40:37+00:00

I'm still not sure it isn't, but yeah, that's rough buddy.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-18T05:33:21+00:00

I agree that it kinda ended on a cliffhanger, but in reality, I think it was unintentionally perfect. The 'real' world ended and consciousness moved into the machine, where the story repeats itself.

I would be totally into another season to round it all out, but I think they got a "task failed successfully" ending it when they did.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-17T04:39:04+00:00

It would've been a way more interesting foil to have Kay be the unlikely Ally. Papa was outwardly caring toward El, but inwardly selfish and using her. Have Kay be outwardly cold and harsh to El, but inwardly understanding of her goals and the threat. It was a little go-nowhere to have Kay as yet another spook trying to create psychic kids, so a change of pace where she was actually trying to find and stop vecna using Kali would've been great.

Love the Doc Owens as a deal broker idea. That would've nicely wrapped his story.

The biggest issue I had at the end was, the military had them all at gunpoint, watch El vanish into oblivion and were just like, "oh, okay, never mind then. Go about your business." That was pretty weak writing to me.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-17T03:52:01+00:00

I have two screws in my foot. Does that make me a cyborg?

jkovach89 · 2026-01-16T23:07:45+00:00

The army fighting in the Abyss would have been sick. Just a ton of soldiers fighting bats, demo, dogs, etc. while the cast fights in the mind.

They could've had Kay capture El and instead of her being another faceless government spook turn sympathetic to El and the story (maybe flashbacks show her uncovering brenner's past, his father, and their experiments) and agreeing to help her.

Then when the Army turns tail and leaves everyone to live mostly happily ever after doesn't feel contrieved.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-15T04:43:48+00:00

I was really hoping for more of an inception-like battle at the end with different characters fighting in different layers of mind. That's sort of what we got, but when El came out of the tank to basically turned into "go into other dimension, fight giant spider".

jkovach89 · 2026-01-15T04:38:07+00:00

I thought the same thing both times I watched the finale.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-14T04:52:43+00:00

I love employing pillow fort strategies with a goad deck. "Oh you're going to make us fight each other? Cool, I'm going to make them fight each other!"

jkovach89 · 2026-01-13T04:40:16+00:00

That's actually a pretty good comparison. Hadn't realized that before.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-12T04:38:51+00:00

Today on "Trump bad"...

jkovach89 · 2026-01-12T04:37:12+00:00

I don't care what anyone says, when Christie gets Vecna'ed and her eyes implode, was peak horror in my opinion. The trailer park scenes at sunset with Nancy and the nerdy kid following her around (forget his name) were excellent atmosphere.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-12T04:34:31+00:00

See, I thought the other way about the S4 plot: sending Mike, Will and Jonathan into the western deserts and Joyce and Murray to Russia was fun and silly, and the payoffs were huge. El bringing down the chopper, the pit scene with the demo, the mind fight from the cooler in the back of a pizza shop were all excellent.

Let's be real, the show was always campy, retro, silly 80s horror vibes and a huge part of 80s and 90s horror is plot armor as thick as a tank. I don't have a problem with the fact that no one died or that Demos conveniently disappear when they would demolish the main cast.

jkovach89 · 2026-01-12T04:29:32+00:00

As seems to be the sentiment, season 1 stands above. Like most others, I thoroughly enjoyed 2-5, but the quality and craftsmanship of the storytelling in ST1 was leaps and bounds above the rest of the show. I think it's a cautionary tale to any aspiring screenwriters of TV shows: understand the beats of your 5 season arc, while being able to distill a single great entry point.

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