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Chris Maynard

Host of the Following Films Podcast and writer at Following Films since 2014, also contributing film reviews to PopHorror; based in Tucson.

Oct 4, 2026

ChrisHOST
2:31
What is it that got you into Garfield in the first place?
2:35
So Garfield's been one of those characters that's always been around ever since I was a kid.
2:40
I read the comic strips.
2:42
I'm 49.
2:43
So back when we used to actually get newspapers delivered to the house, I would read the Garfield comic strip.
2:48
I think there was, there's been several iterations of the cartoon.
2:53
Specifically, there was one that was on when I was about six or seven, I would say that I was watching.

27 MINS LATER

ChrisHOST
29:29
I'm surprised she didn't tell me about this kind of thing, though.
TimHOST
12:41
yeah
12:41
he's gonna have to go on without his father at some point and so you know, that's the tension of the story.
12:50
The difference in age that, you know, Mando is going to die before he even enters adulthood.
12:55
You know, he'll probably be prepubescent when he passes away, something along those lines.
12:59
I'm not completely familiar with his species aging, but he won't be very old when he goes.
13:05
And so to know that he'll be ready to take on the world that's incremental.
13:10
And if you get to the point where he's out there just kicking ass on his own and he's able to do this and survive and thrive on his own, then that story kind of ends between father and son at that moment.

6 MINS LATER

TimHOST
19:30
But other than that, I really don't have many complaints about the movie or things like that, but there's a lot more that I loved, so...

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