A thought: in the original short story by George Langelaan, the protagonist eventually ends up scrambled with a fly AND a cat. (Remember the poor, dematerialized kitty in the 1958 movie?) None of the previous adaptations have gone there yet, but maybe this version?

This joke is FLYing over my head, I’m afraid.

What about David Hedison? :)

Thanks for acknowledging the original 1958 movie (“help meeeee . . .”) as well as the 1986 remake. (“Be afraid. Be very afraid.”)

Given that it’s been more than thirty years since the 1986 movie, which came nearly thirty years after the original film, I guess we’re overdue for a 21st-century version.

She has a cape (!) she wears sometimes.

The genders were also reversed on the CW’s short-lived LIFE INTERRUPTED, which couldn’t seem to make up its mind as to whether to condemn or romanticize the secret teacher/student romance. The show paid lip service to the idea that this was a bad idea, but also took pains to provide extenuating circumstances.…

Yep, the aunts and Salem are straight from the comics.

More like ARCHIE meets TWIN PEAKS by way of DAWSON’S CREEK. And, yes, I’m finding it oddly addictive.

This was actually a plot point in BATES MOTEL last season, in that Norma Bates married the town sheriff for his health insurance, so she could afford psychiatric treatment for Norman . . ..

Fun list, and I’m right there with you with regards to TWISTER and THOR 2.

And this is where I’m obliged to point out that REAL STEEL was based on a short story by Richard Matheson that had previously been done as an episode of the original TWILIGHT ZONE (which is also worth checking out).

Does doing CONAN THE BARBARIAN count as doing the movie franchise thing, or the fantasy literature thing, or both? :)

(But we’ll just forget “Lyre, Lyre, Pants on Fire,” right?)

If this is “corny,” I don’t want to be cool. :)

Not sure what this has to do with hipsters. I’m about as tragically unhip as they come and I think this sounds like a lot of fun.

Then again, I love Broadway musicals AND comic books. Two great tastes that go great together? :)

Oh, good. I would have been crushed if Victor Garber wasn’t involved somehow.

(Hmm. Maybe time to listen to the ASSASSINS original cast album again.)

Me, I always figured the bar was set by XENA’s “The Bitter Suite.” :)

Battle on!

Can’t wait! Singing and dancing AND superheroes? What’s not to love?

That was Farpoint, right? Kinda kicking myself for not going to that one.

I still wish we had gotten that Helena Wells spin-off they were talking about at one point.

I noticed that Nicholas Meyer (who wrote and directed the original 1979 movie) got a screen-writing credit for Part One of last night’s two-hour debut. I wonder: is Meyer actually involved with the remake or was the first hour, which was basically a condensed version of the movie, so close to his original script that…