“...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.”

My preferred medium for grilled cheese, which I learned from Alton Brown, is olive oil.

Correcting myself — it was just “months” that Barry jumped forward, not specifically 6 months.

According to the producers, it’s the same reason they didn’t follow up on the Psycho Pirate teaser in Elseworlds last year. When the time came to break the story, they found it going in a different direction and it would’ve just gotten in the way to try to be beholden to those past teases.

“That means our Barry and that Barry were only able to meet each other because of their connection to the Speed Force, so the DC movies must exist in a separate multiverse that is connected to the CW multiverse by the Speed Force.”

“You have our father’s eyes” is a direct quote from the Batwoman comics. It’s how Alice recognized that Batwoman was Kate -- and let her know that she knew.

You credit Under the Red Hood’s Bruce Greenwood and Jensen Ackles, but neglect to mention that its Joker was played by John DiMaggio (yes, Bender from Futurama).

You’re right, Trump isn’t smart enough to understand this, but it’s the way his whole life has been shaped. His father gave him his fortune but created the fiction that he was a self-made billionaire. His entire career, his entire sense of self-worth, is a fiction constructed for him, so it’s the only reality he…

You’re mistaken to assume that gaslighting is simply a synonym for lying. A liar wants their victim to believe that the lie is the truth. A gaslighter wants their victim to doubt the very concept of truth, to be so unsure of objective reality that their only recourse is submission, to accept what the gaslighter/abuser…

I forget which episode it was, but I liked the banner reading “Elf Alley (Formerly Alley).”

My favorite quote (probably paraphrasing here): “Who knew a carpet could have so much backstory?”