“Oh, we LIKE the idea of a Bride of Frankenstein movie, we’re just not MARRIED to it.”

I don’t want a comedy. I want the original idea that had comedy elements in it. So I don’t want a slacker. Changing the idea/format is not a refreshing change.

If I remember right the original one was a one-hour drama, a super hero show with some funny elements (he lost the instructions!) This new one is a comedy. It’s a half hour. Having the main character be a slacker-type fits with them being a not-great superhero and is usually funnier than them being super competent at…

Even worse: “half-hour, single-camera sitcom”.

Thank you for touching on my problem with this character. The original protagonist was an appealing everyman. The remake’s ‘heroine’ sounds like she is going to be a South Asian Lena Dunham.

Okay, it has been too long, and I don’t remember the ending of the original series so I don’t know how this ties in. I just remember it getting cancelled.

Proof yet again that 80's synth metal is pinnacle achievement of man kind.

The episode where Cyborg needed the song to save the titans (40% 40% 20%) was what helped me realize TTG! was more than just a show to distract kids for a few hours. It was so clever and funny. It was a treat whenever it was on.

I honestly can’t get enough of this song. I got the song and all the covers on my workout playlist.

I never realized until I watched SCTV on DVD back ten years ago that Count Floyd was the same character as news anchor Floyd Robertson. (Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, it was pretty common for local news guys to double as horror show hosts on the same station.) There was some hardcore world-building on that series.

My candidate for this list is The Bubble, a deeply weird science-fiction film from Arch Oboler, the writer-director responsible for the notorious radio anthology Lights Out. Remember that gag on the Simpsons about the fog that turns people inside out? That was him.

A silly point, but bless you for using “discrete” correctly. I swear to God, nobody knows the difference between “discrete” and “discreet” anymore.

You are correct, that D&D can be about whatever you want it to be. There are also official stories (adventure paths) that you can purchase that take you through a guided story, from start to finish.

Bingo. There’s nothing that’s ever stopped a DM from doing this. All they’re doing is drawing more attention to the fact that the adventure books that some DM’s use as a crutch does it for them.

D&D’s always been inclusive, because there’s nothing in the rules that explicitly states the DM can’t have LGBTQ characters or NPCs. The freedom’s always been there, you just need a DM who’s creative enough to make use of more diversity.

This.

Because D&D has had marginalized groups in its DNA since the very beginning?

This seems more to just be about having gay nonplayer characters in the official campaigns, not encouraging players to make their characters gay. That said, a DM can make the NPCs whatever they want, regardless of what they are in the campaign by default.