So much this. The first couple of seasons of the Flash were great because they leaned into Crazy Comics of the Flash. They even had an episode where Barry tried to be all Oliver Queen and Captain Cold showed him why that was a bad idea. Damnit, Barry, learn the lesson!

I did not know I wanted this until just now. 

The problem is that it’s very easy to say “I want to make the FDA more efficient,” and then turn around and rip out all the teeth out of the administration. For example, consider how dysfunctional Congress is right now. Don’t we want regulatory agencies to be able to nimbly pass new rules? Or do we want to try to pass…

Yeah, way too pretty. He needs to look a lot more grizzled. Also the eyes are completely wrong. I’m not normally one for “the character has to look exactly as they are described in the book,” but when there are specific details that are called out again and again, then you should get them right.

GODS DAMNIT! I didn’t want to buy Disney’s streaming service. I really didn’t. I was willing to forego Loki and the Scarlet Witch. But the chance to have a Falcon and Winter Soldier buddy cop or road series? Fine, Disney. You win. Take my money.

There’s context involved too. When I find out a friend or relative hasn’t watched The Good Place, then I encourage them to watch it and take pains to not spoil it. But a conversation on-line 2 years after the reveal? It’s unreasonable to expect to never discover something and be spoiled. 

Age of the Geek, Baby!

No. Christopher Reeve though is just amazing in the role, and Routh’s Superman is such a faithful homage to him. I think it’s terribly underrated. Hoechlin hasn’t had enough time, I think, to show how well he could really do at the role, but he did very well in a tough role in a tough situation (Superman, played well,…

My, personal, ranking of Live Action supermen (leaving out animated ones for the moment)

I did not find it having the early Futurama feel. Mostly because Futurama gave us Fry, who was sweetly moronic and easy to cheer for, and Bean is... Not.

Yeah, but I still haven’t watched it all. :)

The bonus for Amazon is that I can add in HBO or Stars or BritBox and expand the catalog a lot for less money than adding an additional streaming service.

The problem is that people like McConnell make it impossible for the hoi poloi to confront them in any other context. If you never have a town hall, if you have protesters thrown out of the Capitol, and if you make it impossible for people to contact you in an “appropriate” context, then how can people actually…

The MCU was carried from the start by RDJ and Evans. I can’t imagine anyone else in that place.

If we do, I doubt that it will be with Coulter or Jones attached. Or in the same continuity. It will have to be an entirely new continuity for those characters. What I wonder is whether or not a streaming show version owned by Marvel would have more connection to the MCU or not.

They may not be able to. Netflix may own a portion of those rights.I’m not certain of the details, but it sounds like Netflix owns those particular instances of those properties. The Charlie Cox version of Daredevil might not be something Disney can do. This may be a Marvel/Sony or Marvel/Fox issue all over again.…

Without the Marvel shows, I’m not sure what I’d stick around Netflix for. It’s OK for “I want to see what’s on, so I’ll check out Netflix” but there’s little that I say, “Oh, I need to go to Netflix specifically for...” At this point, I think Prime may have a deeper catalog, and for an extra $5 a month there, I can…

In an ideal world, this leads to a Heroes for Hire series (after cancelling Luke Cage) and a Daughters of the Dragon series. The second season was much better than the first, although I don’t think the first was as bad as people keep saying. I think the problem was that the first season was compared to S1 & 2 of…

That’s sort of a fair point, if you accept that the comics are what the real cannon of these properties is. And given that they’re the originals of a lot of it, you could make that argument.

People say that RDJ was perfectly cast as Tony, and to a degree, of course he was. And he does own the role. But Steve Rogers is as important a role in the MCU, and it’s a harder one to pull off. Chris Evans manages to be sincere without being corny, patriotic without nationalistic, and earnest without being…