"Wouldn't that be nice," Sparkle said, kind of wistfully. "Hollywood - where they make a lot of movies here on Earth - is really bad for that. But, like, Earth has been bad for it, going way back. People are just starting to make noise about it."

He took another drink.

"You ever want to watch something, though, and don't think it'll all make sense, I can try to explain that, too."

He had 'being from modern Earth' going for him, there.