The Iron Giant arguably didn't die.

Data taught us what is best in mankind, as he was a mirror to it. Spock wanted to reject his emotions and human parts - which arguably made him the most human creature that Kirk ever encountered - a troubled, intelligent man who wanted to bury his emotions and pain behind logic. But Data....was just so bad at it. …

For example: do the other nations retain their sovereignty or are they beholden to the president of Republic City? ...but if that's the case why didn't Korra look elsewhere for military support when President Raiko shot her request down?

I hate many female characters because they are very poorly written...the underlying reason for which is that "most writers are men" who have NO IDEA how to write women properly. Most female characters I see are laughably bad props used to support male characters - failing the Bechdel test and all of that. I don't…

Steve Mann was not the victim of a "hate crime": a fast food restaurant has the right to tell people not to use cameras on private property. Given that he was wearing (basically) google glasses which were hardwired to constantly be on, he was the one being unreasonable:

It's not just Maine...these little guys are now very common in the New York area. I don't remember seeing them as a small child.

Not a fair comparison. The land war in the invasion of Iraq wasn't the real problem. It was....when you realize how utterly shortsighted the Bush Administration was, like in that book "The Price of Loyalty". They simply assumed everything was going to fall into place after the invasion. They never considered that…

Strategic bombing wasn't a blunder due to the number of lives lost. I actually think it wasn't a "blunder" strictly speaking, but the problem is that....fleets of heavy bombers are more expensive than a land army. The loss of a single flying fortress, catastrophic. In terms of the net losses of raw materials, the…

"I just sold out Czechoslovakia in exchange for Hitler's verbal agreement that he would not invade Poland. Look at what a brilliant diplomat I am!"

Seriously, the Munich Agreement was their biggest blunder. You have to stop these things early.

What's frightening about the Munich Agreement is when you see newsreels of…

Damn right, sir. We've got too many Baby Boomer aged Dan Didio types trying to relive the Silver Age of Adam West Batman tropes, wish fulfillment fantasy for aging fanboys and not real comics anymore.

I salute you.

It was actually a frightening gut-punch when you hear it for the first time, in-context.

I thought "get this cheese to sickbay" was meant as a mild joke (the same kind of space bacteria was growing in it as was growing in the ships bio-neural gel circuit packs, so they needed to figure out what it was to figure out how to fix their bio-gel computer system).

Wesley's line isn't so much funny…

I thought that the Charcarodontosaurus was named after Charcharoth from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, the great hound of the underworld who devoured a Silmaril, but apparently Tolkien himself must have used the stem "Charcharo" from the Greek, meaning "sharp".

Guys, I specifically meant that I wished we got to see Burton's unproduced third film which would have had Billy Dee Wiliams as Two Face, among other things.

Oh it was 2.22 that aired on TV at the end of summer. And the "buxom Asuka variant? Her name's Mari Makinami. Long story short, there was actually chaos in the writers' room about how to handle her and she has, now, officially failed as a character - the idea was that 3.33 would feature on her as one of the main…

A sequel wouldn't involve Jack and Sally as primary characters. They would be the happy characters in charge of Halloween Town - some new younger character has a problem and has a new separate story. The entire universe seemed pretty expansive. It would be set in that universe but not "about" Jack and Sally.

That "some mean kid" was Ward's abusive older brother - his *criminally* abusive older brother.

I was only mildly disappointed that it didn't tie in with Thor 2 specifically but more about Asgard in general. Looking at it from a "glass half full" stance, it was *accessible* to people who might have missed the movie.

That's a good catch you had on the Ritsuko situation.

Yes if taken literally the "go back to the way things were in the photo" position is absurd (he didn't like Gendo), but I think it was meant on a more generalized level of just "back to the real world" etc.

The ambiguity of EoTV is its own discussion.

But still,…