Chris Klimek

What about the sheriff being named Ulysses?

He could be sheriff, Rowan.

I think that's right.

I think that's the irony.

I think like even more than the sheriff in Twin Peaks being named Harry S. Truman.

comma sheriff.

I think Ulysses is a, you know, he's a like Madonna, Bono, you know, just a one-namer figure of mystery.

The network that brought you Eight Week Sheriff?

Glenn, light and magic.

The Disney Plus streaming docuseries, Light and Magic.

I don't know how I missed it in 2022, but the idea that Lawrence Kasdan, you know, who of course wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark and then rewrote Empire and then, you know, becomes the writer-director of The Big Chill and lots of other...

great movies, did a multi-part documentary about the history and evolution of industrial light and magic, the pioneering visual effects house that started to create the revolutionary effects for Star Wars 77.

I'm only one year behind on the second season, which I got to say was not as interesting to me because the first season, it goes from Star Wars up through Jurassic Park.

So it's that inflection point, right?

We're getting away from models and miniatures and composites and all the

visual effects technology that have dominated really the first century of cinema pushing towards the digital revolution in season two, you know, it's just, it's just not as much fun to watch all this, this footage of, of people sitting there clicking mouses instead of painting models and, you know, Phil Tippett, like animating his stop motion or, or go motion to use the Tippett term for his, you know, animating his, his ad ads and his tauntauns and, uh,

and things like that.

But I was just delighted by it.

You get to see, in addition to people who normies would probably recognize, like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, you get visual effects legends like Phil Tippett and Dennis Murin and John Knoll, and you actually get to see them age over the course of these interviews over decades, which becomes kind of unexpectedly moving on top of just all the film nerd stuff.

I will never not get a dopamine hit from seeing someone paint a model of a Star Destroyer