No, not just a Space Force — we need a Star Force. Nothing else will save us from the Gamilons and the Comet Empire.

Correction: The Rocketeer’s score was by James Horner, not Howard Shore.

Except that Casey Kasem was born Kemal Amin Kasem. ;)

That’s kind of a myth. Sure, Roddenberry issued a memo in 1989 saying that the animated series didn’t count, but he also said some of the movies didn’t count. I suspect he was partly motivated by his legal battle to shut D.C. Fontana out of her fully deserved co-creator credit for TNG. Since TAS was essentially…

I thought the original Kovacs was played by Will Yun Lee, not Byron Mann. I gathered that Mann played another one of his sleeves, not his first incarnation. That’s definitely Lee next to Dichen Lachman in the penultimate photo.

I gather he was originally Michaelangelo, but they changed it to Michelangelo around 2001.

I think I read recently that one of the creators just grabbed an art book off his shelf and mined it for names, because he couldn’t think of anything else. Eastman & Laird wanted to do a parody of Frank Miller’s Daredevil and its ninja-themed storytelling, but they didn’t know enough about Japanese culture to come up…

Turtles are reptiles, not amphibians. Some of them are amphibious, i.e. able to function on land and in water, but that is not the same thing as being an amphibian, i.e. an order of life characterized by soft, moist skin, egg-laying in bodies of water, and metamorphosis from an aquatic juvenile form.

The season 3 trailer matched the epithets to faces: the one-eyed conqueror is Margo, the traveler is Penny, the warrior is Kady, the fool is Quentin, the god-touched is Julia, and the torture artist is Alice (leaving Josh to be the lover of tomatoes, I guess). Of course, trailers are made by ad agencies and don’t…

As the article said, this is the same studio (Warner Bros) that recently investigated and fired Andrew Kreisberg. And Kreisberg, as a showrunner on two of The CW’s top series, was probably more valuable to them than Knepper, yet they let him go based on the evidence. Which suggests that if they had found conclusive…

“increasingly ludacris ends”

It’s weird to me how Japanese-to-English translators have latched onto “you guys” as the default for translating the second person plural in Japanese (Kimi-tachi in this case, with -tachi being a collective address for a group of people). I often see dubbed or subtitled Japanese productions having characters say “you…

“...metal notches installed on a concrete ledge to deter skateboarders...”

She’s as much a superhero as Oracle was. She has her own code name, Overwatch, though she’s never worn a costume except in the altered “Doomworld” reality on Legends of Tomorrow last season.

“Intent on stealing Supergirl’s heart...”

Yeah, and I’m guessing the Deathstroke 2-parter on Arrow was probably to give Stephen Amell more time off for the crossover, as was the “Girls’ Night Out” Flash episode for Grant Gustin. In fact, neither that episode nor last night’s Thinker-origin episode featured Barry in costume as the Flash even once, IIRC, which…

Will the new Firefox let me keep my existing Bookmarks Toolbar, or will I have to learn how to use this new Library thing instead? I don’t cope well with change, and in my experience, software upgrades that are supposed to make things work “better” usually strip away features I like.

The prominence of Gonzo and Rizzo in the post-Henson era was presumably because, with Henson gone and Frank Oz mainly focusing on his directorial career, that made Dave Goelz (Gonzo) and Steve Whitmire (Rizzo and Kermit II) the effective leads of the ensemble. I didn’t mind that, but I hate Pepe the Prawn (though Bill…

The Northern Lights are more formally called the Aurora Borealis. An aurora is the phenomenon created when electrons from the solar wind are accelerated by the Earth’s magnetic field and excite air molecules to luminesce. I guess the idea is that Eclipse’s light powers involve electrons in some way, though the show’s…

Yeah, but what I wonder is, if someone who’d never seen the original series saw that shot, would it have the same effect? Has this show done enough to sell the idea of Launchpad’s inept piloting to new viewers? There was a bit of that in the premiere, but otherwise it’s mostly been treated as what TV Tropes calls an in…