Time for an update on my bad habits.
The Schlotzsky's pastrami and swiss on rye is not as wonderful as I remember it being from back in the day. Did you know they have a drive-thru? There's something special about the sponginess of Schlotzsky's bread, but the sandwich overall was a bit bland.
Kevin Smith, though. This man is anything but bland. His show on Hulu Plus,
Spoilers, is a lot of fun, expanding on the director/fan repertoire Smith has established through other forums. From the fan discussions of movies to the "sponsored by" Criterion Lounge moments where Smith talks about a movie of the day from the Criterion Collection, the show is laid-back and enjoyable. But, most of all, Smith's chats with other folk in the movie business are illuminating and, for me, the main draw of the show. Take his interview with Damon Lindelof, for example. Despite my dislike for Lindelof's hokey mysteries in
LOST, what I assume must have been his idea to blow up the planet Vulcan in the
Star Trek reboot, and his many plot-holes and desperate stabs at profundity in
Prometheus, his chat with Kevin Smith allowed to to appreciate what he did accomplish as a writer in those instances. With
LOST, Lindelof helped Abrams to turn a studio joke project (the dramatized version of
Survivor) into the most intriguing show on television... for a time, until its beautiful mystery boxes turned out to be empty. With
Prometheus, Lindelof turned Jon Spaight's script from a straight prequel to
Alien with
Aliens-style action (and no potential surprises to be found since the audience has presumably seen
Alien) into a potential new franchise containing unfamiliar elements... albeit one we didn't really need. There is, however, no good reason given for the destruction of Vulcan. Because there isn't one.
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