The story I've heard is that WB is just balkanized. That they're very good at supporting the creative people to bring their vision to fruition, but they can't get one office to talk to another, and thus their ability to run a franchise is chronically absent.

These big, sprawling, multimedia franchises always make me think of what George Lucas said when he was exasperated by a particularly petty fanboy complaint:

Asteroid mining and space based manufacturing, so we can start moving industry off world before we destroy ourselves completely.

The tone of Superman stories usually sets them twenty minutes into the future. Batman is twenty minutes into the past. When they team up, wouldn't you expect Batman to be older?

There were enough outcasts generated by that war to turn Canada into an English speaking country.

I'm pretty much over Lord of the Rings, but one thing I love about the book (and which is totally absent from the films) is the ambiguity in most passages about just what an "orc" is. It may be spelled out in the appendix, or in other supplementary material, but in the actual text an orc is usually a bit of a cypher:

Maybe, then again

It's not the death of dedicated electronics that's the problem. That was just inevitable. I have been a fan of the single purpose device for years, just because they're so much more reliable, but that was bound to change. If the all in one device really can do it all without stuttering or crashing, I don't have a…

The entire Star Trek franchise degenerated into utter crap over the years, because they abandoned what had been specifically intended as a setup for reset button television.

I know I can follow links or use Google, but...

High Concept Science Fiction or Fantasy Awkwardly Shoehorned Into a Police Procedural

The prompting is the least of this experiment's problems.

I'm probably not the first person to observe that this pose would be far less problematical if only she were shooting spider silk out of her ass.

There are many mysteries in this life, many things that elude our understanding, and this can become very frustrating. Don't torture yourself with questions to which you already know the answer.

I especially like how your warning signs say "Danger Of Death!" So refreshingly straightforward.

oo-RAH-nohs

A nice list of cliches. Now just watch: one of us will spend a couple days giggling in front of a keyboard, just fleshing them out for a laugh, and accidentally produce a huge best seller.

Horsepower dates from the days of the first steam engines. These were large, stationary machines, typically used for drainage pumps that had to be run continuously.

Thor is the god of lightning. He kisses the treetops. It is only fitting that his love interest be played by award winning block of wood Natalie Portman.

Which daydream shall I take refuge in today? The superhero I made up? The space opera I made up? It's always a little bit of a shocker to me that most people are genuinely likelier to get caught up in other peoples' fantasy worlds than their own. I enjoy the hell out of the other peoples' stuff, but I like mine…