>B: OKTwins fans are an impeccably cultured slice of humanity,
>so there is no surprise to find love for kiss kiss bang bang
>here.

More and more, this seems to be the case. Lucky us.

>A: i would assume your specialized scholastic endeavors don't
>expose you to a lot of pop-culture savvy individuals. i'm
>likely generalizing quite a bit, but it's just a hunch.

That's pretty much right, though the ascendancy of the one-hour cable TV drama does kind of shade the matter a bit. When I first started in this racket, people would mostly geek out when it came to, say, creating a Venn Diagram to explain how the Matrix sequels described Marcionite cosmology.* Now, pretty much anything you'd expect is fair game but most people are pretty safely behind the curve. So I can't get a friend# to shut up about whether Breaking Bad or Sopranos has more thoroughly understood the mechanics of human evil^ but that conversation didn't even start until Breaking Bad was nearly done.


*yes, this happened.
#also a Twins fan
^it's the Sopranos