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Even as a kid I thought Luke Skywalker was undeserving of his heroic status (he just happened to have the coolest dad ever, after all), but we’re both old as fuck now, and I like that he no longer seems to give any. His return to the Flash TV show was brilliantly handled, he’s all “I’m telling you, it’s just a movie” about this new Star Wars crap, and it’s a given he’ll be voicing The Killing Joke as a final bow. If not for Blade Runner—because really, Harrison Ford played the same melancholic character for the rest of his successful career after he got too long in the tooth for Indiana Jones—I’d say he finally outdid the more popular Han Solo! Most my preoccupation lately appears to be with the past (though don’t get me wrong, I am trying to keep things in perspective for future generations… as if there will ever be a band again who’ll make better tracks than “Over the Hills and Far Away”); I loaded a different playlist for my new nano, and the ending theme to Buckaroo Banzai reminded me how much more I liked that movie than, say, the Avengers. The other day I read about the creator of Hawk the Slayer crowdfunding a sequel, so I braced myself for the nostalgia with another low-seeded torrent, only to remember that it had only been six years since I revisited it on Netflix.

I didn’t notice it as a kid, but boy, is that shift in tone for the second season ever so noticeable. The gloominess of their predicament is gone, and they seem to all but forget about the day’s events after that last commercial break before the end credits—to bring myself up to current events (because of that IP issue at home), like DC movies “v” Marvel’s. That refreshed theme reminds me a lot of recent music from the BBC, and make no mistake about it, the Alphans aren’t pussies anymore, even if their weapons work on aliens only 5% of the time.