Another Radio Moment

Driving back from work, I was listening to weather-report cautions of heavy snow forecast. One of the radio hosts brought up “Game of Thrones” and added the “Winter is coming” line a few moments later. I’ll admit I thought “it’s nice that property’s still being brought up, given what I noticed” (but only “noticed”) “about complaints about the way the show ended.” Before I’d thought much further into the subject, though, another one of the people on the show said he’d rather invoke Star Wars. Although I recall his line being a little off from “Storm’s coming, Ani!”, it still provoked a warm “not just ‘Star Wars,’ but The Phantom Menace!” feeling. (It took a little longer for the pedantic part of me to think about the line involving a sandstorm...)

To be fair, “you still can’t let the loudest complaints online hide the possibility of simple, uncomplicated enjoyment” might apply in both cases. I also wondered a bit about “yes, you enjoyed that Star Wars reference, but surely, eventually, someone’s going to quote the Disney stuff...” Before I’d quite finished my drive back, anyway, I did happen to wind up behind a car with what I could tell was a Star Trek reference on its license plate, and a “uniform emblem” sticker on its rear window. I counted that as fitting into the drive.