“...we’re living in a golden age of exploring the fact that Spock Is Hot.”

It sounds like a very different thing, but I was impressed by how well the 2006-7 Kamen Rider Kabuto handled its “Clock Up” superspeed sequences. They took the extreme slow-motion approach similar to that seen in Smallville, the X-Men movies, and The Flash (the movie) to depict superspeed, but for their time, budget,…

Wouldn’t it be funny if they moved production to Tokyo?

“Splitting films into multiple parts is still a fairly recent phenomenon”

I’m glad the show uses the Goldsmith themes, but annoyed that they don’t credit Goldsmith in the end titles. He may no longer be around, but presumably he has an estate that should be getting royalties.

Absolutely. If someone burned down their own business and filed an insurance claim, that would be blatant fraud and they’d go to jail. Deliberately pulling shows from streaming or cancelling a movie like Batgirl in order to manufacture an artificial “loss” to claim a tax deduction is the exact same thing, yet somehow…

To quote the story, “Burdens went on the backs of citizens or their animals, by boat, by travois, by sledge in winter -- never on wheels.”

No — in the movie, Mr. Wing refused to sell Gizmo, but his grandson did it behind his back. Wing returned at the end of the movie to take Gizmo back, and they stayed together until Wing died at the start of the sequel.

These were featured in Poul Anderson’s 1963 story “The Three-Cornered Wheel.” A space explorer crew needs to find a way to transport equipment on a planet whose natives see circles as sacred and consider their secular use blasphemous. So the hero has the idea to use wheels of this shape instead.

“it’s all about the team surrounding the hero. That [was never part of the] genre until it was established by Stephen J. Cannell. Pam and Bill are his team. They know everything Ralph knows. That was a huge difference from every superhero that came before.”

It’s an overstatement to call the Monkey King an “ancient Chinese legend,” considering that he originated in Journey to the West, a novel whose publication in China was contemporaneous with William Shakespeare’s early plays. He’s more of a literary hero.

It’s nominally another Earth in the Arrowverse’s multiverse (the Irons’s origin story was catalyzed by the antimatter wave from “Crisis”), but narratively it’s essentially an independent work. So from a creative standpoint, the Arrowverse as an interconnected fictional continuity is effectively over. Certainly the…

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“we see the bridge of a Quarren ship lead by an unnamed captain (Christine Davis)”

I don’t think Gwen was saying that the multidimensional nexus is named The Lobby -- the joke was that they were in this huge impressive room and Gwen said “This is just the lobby” of whatever much huger complex they were in.

Umm, the title is My Adventures with Superman. Your previous article linked in the first paragraph got it right.

Mark Dacascos also has a Power Rangers connection — he was the lead in the pilot film for Saban’s first attempt at adapting Super Sentai with an American cast.

They may be stunt doubles, but my understanding is that they do most of Mando’s walking and talking scenes too. So they’re stunt performers doing acting work, which deserves acting credit.

The original Star Wars trilogy prominently credited Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, and even Kenny Baker as R2-D2, making them household names for the fans, even though Daniels was the only one whose voice we heard. So it’s surprising they took this long to credit Mando’s suit actors.

That’s my whole point, though. If it’s one big show, then they’re misleading us by putting out one season of it under a separate title. The Book of Boba Fett should have been season 3 of The Mandalorian, with Mando’s arc interspersed alongside Boba’s in every episode and taking up more of the running time.