(No shade to the cast though. They elevated material that I don't think even Hercules could've gotten off the ground.)

I watched the reruns as a kid and thought it was funny/wacky, and was in love with Mrs. Roper's weirdness. As an adult, I watched a few eps and wondered what the fuck all the adults who loved it the first time around were smoking. (Weed. Everyone was high.)

I'd say 'it's not Shakespeare' but Shakespeare wasn't all that concerned about consistency WITHIN A PLAY let alone from one play to the next.

Exactly. It's like... do people watch these movies for a realistic portrayal of literally ANYthing? Go wild. Do something so over-the-top to revive the series that people will cheer at the audacity of it. It's a popcorn franchise, not goddamn Bergman.

Which would've been the smart thing to have done, but didn't they definitively kill that idea off in one of the Craig movies? It seemed dumb to me at the time they'd close that door when it made so much more sense.

Reminds me: when I was maybe 10 or 11, our local paper did an interview w/a kid my age and his mom, who were both stoked about how the kid was pen pals with John Wayne Gacy, who'd sent the kid letters and paintings. And even then I was like, holy shit this kid's fucked up already.

God;dammit.

Of course. Most decent people are.

Ah. I remained independent for years. Changed to Dem because it was the only way I could vote for Warren in the presidential primary here in NY. Joke was on me: she dropped out before we got to vote here. But I stick with the D thing so I can at least vote in primaries when I can.

Not sure what state you're in, but check how the primaries work before you do that. You might be boxing yourself out.

Vonnegut once said that semicolons were only useful to show you went to college. Now I learn this about Elon Musk's dick.

So like, if we're gonna do an analogy with these two, the closest I can think of is Henry II as Tonya, Becket as Nancy Kerrigan, and Gillooly and Eckardt as the two drunks overhearing Henry's rhetorical 'rid me of this meddlesome priest' whining and taking him at his word.

It's a terrible movie. It is a fantastic spectacle.

To him it is one and the same, I'm afraid.