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RIP Bob Newhart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdUWXf8jJk We were totally scammed and we loved it!It was easily the greatest ending to a television comedy in history. I never even heard the lines I was laughing so hard. It was without question a "you had to be there to understand" moment. There had been all kinds of rumors going around about how Newhart would end. Mostly they'd promised something really intolerable. That Bob, who had been a fixture in our lives throughout the 1980s was going to be...

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The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: The Acolyte (Part I)

(I have to break this into two parts, I can’t examine this much bad in only 1500 words)This is the LucasFilm project where the last of the superfans, The Star Wars Advocates finally walked away. The opposite of love is not hatred, it’s indifference.  After this, they don’t care anymore. It’s not just that this show took Star Wars canon, rolled it up in a carpet, threw it in a dumpster, poured gasoline on it, and set it on...

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2015: Disney’s Watershed Year

2015 was the year that Bob Iger made the decisions that set Disney on a course to oblivion. It was the year he made the choices that changed it irrecoverably from Walt Disney's company to Bob Iger's.Several factors converged that year that would turn Disney into the trainwreck it is today. A lot of people blame Covid but truthfully that just accelerated a process that was already in motion. These factors in no particular order were; the...

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Goodbye Shannen

Shannen Doherty has lost her fight with breast cancer.  Given the events of the weekend, it’s all too easy to overlook the passing of one of the great genre actresses of Generation X and that would be a shame.Doherty started out as a child actress in the early 1980s.  Her first appearance was in the Chariots of the Gods futureman hippie babble show, The Phoenix, where she played “Little Girl.” Her next three parts were in varied genre projects The...

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The Acolyte is Officially in Trouble

Shill to the stars Grace Randolph, the most reliably pro-LucasFilm shill channel with almost but not quite a million subs, has suddenly done an about face and absolutely dragged the latest episode of the Acolyte across broken concrete. She could not dredge up enough bile and vitriol. It went from absolutely amazing to a blitheringly incompetent steaming pile of Star Wars. The Neilson's are out now so there is no hiding this disaster any longer.There is no way in...

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Jon Del Arroz Is the Only One Left Still Covering the Neil Gaiman BDSM Scandal

UPDATE: https://twitter.com/jondelarroz/status/1812126790833643776 ****The suppression algorithms have been fired up. Open up a private browsing window and type in Neil Gainman on YouTube. Take a look at the results, you can see for yourself whats happening.Neil was a pioneer in Wokism, he was writing about mentally ill defectives long before they became a protected class. He is revered by the high lords of Clown World for his trailblazing.Gaiman is into the amazingly disgusting stuff. I mean we're talking the Marquis De...

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What is Marvel Doing to Captain America this Week?

REPOST: 7/11/24There is zero interest in Falcon America Brave New World. But it does look like Disney/Marvel thinks they have something that won't look like a total joke if they put it in theaters. Since the Marvel brain trust was fired and replaced with DEI quotas there is very little hope for it. Feige has absolutely not gone back to formula that made Marvel a boxoffice juggernaut. He's hoping that a vaguely anti-Trump Woke-lite plot will put him back on...

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Shelly Duvall RIP

Noted genre actress Shelly Duvall has passed today at the age of seventy five due to complications resulting from diabetes. One of acting’s little secrets is that it is mostly genetics more than anything else.  What bag of tricks did fate leave in your cradle as an infant? Was it the emotional vampirism so necessary in driving a practitioner of the craft forward? Was it the ability to lift one eyebrow? Was it that indefinable quality called, ‘the magic’? Was it...

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Disney Deathwatch (7/10/24)

The AcolyteThere’s a number of things I’d rather do than get caught up on The Acolyte but given the interest around it I have little choice.  It has managed the impressive feat of stirring up the kind of hatred that hasn’t surrounded a Star Wars project since The Last Jedi. While The Rise of Skywalker was certainly hated that was mostly because of its utter cinematic incompetence. As bad as it was, it was an attempt at course correction.  The Last...

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