I think I’ve got my own LOST retrospective write-up brewing, and a big chunk of it is about how most of the show’s questions were answered, but not in a plain “I’m going to tell you the answer”, but giving you two and two and expecting you to get four on your own.

Watching an absurdly long LOST retrospective on Youtube, this bit shown of an old YouTube rant about the finale jumped out at me: "I don't want to INTERPRET meaning, I want you to TELL ME!" That right there, a perfect canary in the coalmine of media illiteracy. Wow.

"Hey, you, person I don't know, can you connect me with someone else I don't know" is a wild ask, indeed.

I often wonder if the folks who make fake photos or videos to create a false narrative think they’re serving some greater good with their deliberately manufactured lies, or if they are cackling sociopathic villains who embrace that fact.

I mean, we literally had a debate that made his “Bartlett wipes the floor with his opponent and effectively ends the race” look like a balanced conversation, and it didn’t move the needle in any significant way.

River's just a kid here, but I did not know this movie existed (with Ellen Burstyn, Marsha Mason, Molly Ringwald and also died-too-young Heather Rourke) until just now:

Surviving: A Family in Crisis (1985)

YouTube video by rivjudephoenix

Or A THING CALLED LOVE or NIGHT IN THE LIFE OF JIMMY REARDON.

Catching up on PACHINKO, it's amusing that in the 1950 section, the actress playing Sunja (who is 29, playing her from ages 16-35 (1931-1950) so far) is a few months younger than the actor playing her son Noa (also 29, playing 19 in 1950).