- I don't h8 Twin Peaks anymore.
- Fango lives!!!
- Couple other random pop culture updates.
- 90's TV revival updates!!
From 4 years ago here...
Well, the casting is officially out, and yep, Hamill, Fisher, and Ford are in.
As are Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew.
No Billy Dee Williams though. :-(
Well, 4 years, and four fucking movies later....
BILLY DEE IS IN EPISODE 9 AS LANDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
About. Fucking. TIME!
And, in news that only I care about, but I want to time capsule it anyway....
Rachel Unglighter is in Ghostbusters: Crossing Over!!!!!!
Yep, this preview image went up on Twitter, and has spoiled that starting in issue #6, Rachel Unglighter is going to be part of the big uber-crossover of every Ghostbuster from every medium.
Rachel comes from a graphic novel where the Ghostbusters were sent to different times in history by a demonic spell, and a student of Egon, Rachel, rigs the Ecto-1 into a time machine, and goes to get them back.
She becomes a temporary 5th Ghostbuster, and an almost love interest for Peter, but sacrifices herself at the end.
But, in a vague comic book-y way that she could come back.
And, she clearly has.
Anyway, that book was "Ghostbusters: Displaced Aggression", and it was really fucking good, and a lot of fans, myself included, have both wondered if it was canon, and if not, wished it was canon.
With Rachel in the mix, yes, it is.
It's canon.
So, permit me to fangirl for a second.
SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!
*Hops up and down clapping hands*
Ahem, okay.
I know, I'm the only Ghostbusters expanded-canon nut in my circle of friends, but this excites me as much as the Billy Dee news.
Call me a weirdo, but there it is.
So, that's those two things.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Niiiice!!
So...now that Papa John isn't at Papa John's....do they change the name, or what?
If not, why not?
They went to such huge lengths to scrub the GUY from them like dirt, why keep his name?
Henry Ford was a fucking Nazi sympathizer, why is his name still on the motor company?
What about Jared on the Subway ads?
Is his commercial character different than the real guy?
Is the mascot as guilty as the human?
If the mascot is innocent, shouldn't they have resolved his storyline?
They never resolve the storylines of abandoned mascots.
They just kind of get trapped in limbo.
Corporate art is weird.
There's a real rabbit hole you could go down with this.
I just love how Randroids like him are never in touch with reality and that lack of being in touch has got to be a large part of what nailed him in the end.
For the record, I didn't actually think their pizza and cheese sticks were half bad, but yeah the guy was a total zillionaire Randroid epitome-of-douche.
Do they change the name? Hey, you told the story of "KFC" yourself and I remember how you told it--"They not only sued him for what he said, they sued him for THE NAME AND LIKENESS OF COLONEL SANDERS!!!!" And they got it. Well hey, this is like the happy version of that except that Papa John will probably live longer.
"Is the mascot as guilty as the human?" - I sure would feel sorry for Tinkerbell if this were true!!
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