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The Godfather II is one of the rare movies series where a sequel was better than the first.

Or it could be their "cousin Oliver" moment. That point in a tv show where the writers have squeezed all they can from the characters and have to inject some wacky "wild card" character out of the blue in a desperate attempt to revive things. It got the name from the Brady Bunch who had cousin Oliver show up suddenly. Married With Children had it with cousin Seven, Happy Days with Mork from Ork (yup, that is how it started), The Flintstones with The Great Gazoo alien, Scooby Doo had his Scrappy Doo...

Or just wait until the 8th movie. Treat it like I treat most articles now that are like "This was the Beatle's biggest regret!". The first 4-5 paragraphs will be total fluff and now I immediately scroll to about the halfway point where they actually address the headline.

It says it with the plots and such. It seems to say that by episode 7 is when people's impressions, on the average, become positive.

I tried watching Lost on Netflix for the first time. Yes, I know it is an old show at this point but I never bothered with it when it was the thing to watch. Well I couldn't get past the incredibly ridiculous behavior of everyone, some of the characters were painfully clichéd, the way it quickly felt like a soap opera was too much, etc. I had to stop after 3 episodes. I even read the wikis on it and the plot becomes a mess very quickly.

Now if I had only given Seinfeld 3-4 episodes I would've cut it off before it hit its stride. I think for comedies it can take an entire season to get up to speed. The King of Queens took about a year to get its structure together. Arrested Development is one show that came out of the gate full speed and continued to hone it characters. F is for Family is an animated show that really started pretty good. The Simpsons early years have a dramatically different feel for the characters over time as the Simpson family became more extreme in their characterizations. Homer and Bart felt much more human in the early years.

To get all of the tricks remaining in the deck

I knew a professor who named his dog "Sweety" just to annoy his wife because he called her that also.

While trying to come up with a name for our previous cat I kept getting shot down by my wife. "Nah...nah..." One day we were walking through the supermarket and she asked again and I facetiously looked around and saw a sign in the produce section and said, "How about Kiwi?" We both realized that we liked it. lol

Rub that belly!

Adopted our furball from a foster family after their original owners couldn't keep him. We liked the name and kept it.

I'm afraid we're accumulating genetic defects and weaknesses because we're not allowing them to be weeded out anymore.

If they are so pro life I'd expect them to support universal healthcare but they very rarely do.

In theory, a musician should be protected against abuse of their music.

You mean like with copyright (IP) laws?

Patents and copyright originated to protect everyone. Charles Dickens complained that his books were copied rampantly. Without them any invention by the little guy would be immediately stolen and ramped up into production at levels the little guy can never match. Why would I work on anything if it can just be stolen with no legal protection? Universities and SMEs constantly issue patents, if they can't commercialize them themselves they can license them to someone who can.

chances are you cannot enjoy as much information and content as one born in a richer country.

What? The internet is full of free info.

The real issues are things like:

1. Insanely long copyright periods. Sorry but your grandkids/Disney shouldn't profit from your work 70+ years later.
2. Patent camping. Either do something with it or lose it.
3. Patent lawsuit factories. The patent office makes money off of fees and is too quick to hand out patents that are overly broad or trivial. You have businesses that just hoard patents with no intention to use them except to sue others.

Well yah. The alternative is barter and farmers only need so many cell phones and software developers.

When you look at revolutions the tipping point was always the threat of going hungry and losing your home. That makes everyone desperate.

The left has become so focused on illegal immigrants and identity politics that they have abandoned working class economic issues and rural white voters and it has cost them elections.

Seeing as people have pushed out to every tiny corner of the country if it exists they would've found physical remains by now.

I'm centrist so I probably believe in something that offends both sides.

Citizens living in the area who denied the conditions in the camps were made to visit them

https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/172/german-citizens-see-the-consequences-of-war-crimes/

Many chose to stay in the US or Canada after the war.