Obvious things about a creative work you realize after the millionth time (OPEN SPOILERS POSSIBLE)

How the guilt manifests depends on the individual, and whether they have the time to consider it at all before some other id monster is tearing them apart.

By the way, I’ve always wondered whether Morbius’ monster, as we see it outlined in the blaster rays when it tries to attack the ship, isn’t what a very primitive Krell might have looked like, before they evolved to a more civilized form. That general shape would have fit through those doors pretty well.

Doc Ostrow: “No, no, no, Skipper, this thing runs counter to every known law of evolution. Now take this structure here: characteristic of a four-footed animal, yet our friend here last night left the tracks of a biped! Primarily a ground animal too; yet this claw could only belong to an arboreal creature like some kind of impossible tree sloth! Anywhere in the galaxy this thing is a nightmare!”

Note as well that Morbius says no image of the Krell still exists, so he wouldn’t know what they looked like.

From IMDB: “It could be inferred that the physical shape of the ID monster vaguely resembles the never shown Krell aspect - it does seem to fit within the strangely shaped doors these species used. It would be more appropriate, though, to consider this shape as what Morbius thought they’d look like, given that it was produced by his higher-than-average subconscious mind.”

I’m watching the third season of Ted Lasso and just realized that the actress that plays team owner Rebecca is the Shame Shame Shame Septa from Game of Thrones.

Watching Law and Order- I realized they have it backwards- the cops are Order, the DA is the Law.

I did not know that! I’ll need to find a clip because I cannot imagine her not totally glammed up.

I saw her recently in an old Miss Marple episode. The Mirror Crack’d???

I’ve had this t-shirt long enough to wear it into a rag. I noticed the DK (Dead Kennedys) logo in the background immediately but just got the significance today.

In the Heat of the Night (1967, directed by Norman Jewison). I rewatched some of this while recording it the other day. I like it a lot for several reasons that I’ve posted here in the past, but I’d forgotten a couple of pithy lines of dialogue.

As most of you know, at the beginning of the film, a wealthy industrialist from up north has been murdered in a tiny town in the Deep South. The widow threatens Mayor Schubert and Police Chief Gillespie with taking her husband’s engineers back to Chicago, icily adding “and leave you (pause) to yourselves.” What a line and what a delivery.

The other pithy bit of dialogue is when Gillespie and Tibbs go to the house of Endicott, the racist plantation owner. Flanking the access road, Black workers are picking cotton and looking like others probably did 100 years earlier. Tibbs is silently taking all of this in, Gillespie notices and wisecracks, “None of that for you, huh, Virgil?

I’d like to think a large part of the world still holds its collective breath upon first seeing the slapping scene. I’ve just read that Poitier insisted that it be filmed as it was and that the scene would be included in all prints of the film.

A friend pointed out that on the new show “Shrinking” Jason Segel’s therapist character probably doesn’t make big bucks at his practice and is now only able to maintain his Pasadena home and lifestyle due to the life insurance payout from his wife’s death. It throws his spiraling with drugs and hookers early in the show in a different light.

Also plays one of Jackson’s mums in Sex Education

Just finished watching Alice in Borderland, and it only occured to me about 15 minutes from the end of the final episode that the main character’s name, ‘Arisu’, is meant to sound like ‘Alice’. :man_facepalming:

I’m rewatching Superstore. I’m not sure this was on purpose since it seemed like a throwaway line, but in S2E7, Glenn mentions that the store “got an F in tornado preparedness. The inspector says this place is a house of cards”. S2E22 is the Tornado episode.

Speaking of people named Glenn, I was like 3 episodes into Beef before I realized Danny is Glenn from The Walking Dead.

Some or most of you may already know this, but it surprised the heck out of me.

Remember the actor who played Johnny Ringo in the film Tombstone? Baleful stare, as if something bad were boiling inside him. They sure did a good job with the makeup. Who was that actor, anyway? Hey, turns out it’s Michael Biehn, the guy who played Kyle Reese in Terminator.

… or was that Michael Biehn from the future?

Yeah that’s too subtle for TV- it would have to be at the very start or the epi, or at most the epi right before.

They absolutely definitely did foreshadow the tornado on several occasions:

The episode is the culmination of so much set-up. In episode three of season two (“Back to Work”), we had some joke we put in randomly about a tornado, when Amy was giving a tornado drill to distract Glenn from realizing Tom’s thumb was severed. When we wrote that joke, we started talking about how it would be great to someday actually do “the tornado hits the store” scene and not just do what the expectations would be—oh, there’s a tornado warning, which forces honest discussions and confrontations, which all leads to no tornado hitting. Wouldn’t it be interesting if we actually had the tornado hit the store and what it would be like? Then at a certain point, we found out that Universal had to demolish our soundstages because the studio is connected to the theme park and the theme park was going to be using some of that space. It just felt like fate or karma. With that in mind, we started every four or five episodes, putting in a little reference or little joke to the fact that the store was in no way ready for a tornado.

Okay, I can believe lots of set up. But not one throw away line 15 episodes before.

In the television program Community, they set up a joke over three seasons. In the movie Beetlejuice, it’s mentioned that to have the character Beetlejuice appear, it’s necessary to say his name three times. In the episode “Community Studies” in season 1, they said “Beetlejuice” once. In the episode “Cooperative Calligraphy” in season 2, they said it again. In the episode “Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps” in season 3, they said it again, and Beetlejuice appeared in the background of the scene. I mentioned this in a previous post in another thread in the SDMb. If I mention it a third time, I will explode from excessive pickiness.

One of the most elaborate pieces like this was also in Community. Someone put all the pieces together on YouTube, I believe, so check that out, because I’ll never remember them all.

But there were barely-noticeable background shots of a couple together in one episode, kissing in another, then weeks later an announcement over the school’s PA system that the condoms being passed out are faulty, and other background vignettes over several seasons, IIRC, culminating in Abed helping deliver their baby. But, like many of these shots, it was happening outside through a window, while the main action was front and center indoors.

Implode; it’s a common error.