Yes! Making the three best Arrowverse villains into a team and letting us watch them bicker was exactly what LoT needed to reset from the Hawkpeople vs. Vandal Savage doldrums. And Rip was believable as a desperate man who would break every rule and tell lie after lie to his team to save his family, but that also made…

A great first episode that has mostly settled my misgivings about changing Kamala’s origin (and power set, sort of) from the GWW comics. I still hope they find some way to bring my favorite pairing into the show somehow, though, despite a lack of an Inhumans connection:

The reason I know I’m from a different generation than Matt Schimkowitz is that where his mind went immediately to a Borat reference, my mind went immediately to a Talking Heads song.

How can you talk that way about C-3PO’s oldest friend?

Y’know, looking back, I do respect my mom’s choice not to let me see Scanners at age 7. I was well into my teens before I got to sample any Cronenberg.

Showing my age, I’m sure, but for me Ironside will always be the deus ex mercenary who rallies the human resistance in the classic ‘80s sci-fi miniseries V, and its sequel V: The Final Battle.

I often have to remind people who reflexively say “Daredevil S2 sucked” that the Punisher stuff is in the first half. Which goes to show how much damage the second half of S2 did to its reputation.

Recasting Foggy and Karen would be a shame, both actors did a great job. But I would agree that we don’t need Elektra back; the show was always at its worst when dealing with anything to do with The Hand, although I did enjoy Scott Glenn as Stick.

Loved The Hour, and that’s where I first encountered him, too. Oona Chaplin (yes, of those Chaplins) is also great in it, as is Romola Garai.

This is true, but by the same token, tours at this scale also have contingency plans for when the stars can’t perform. There was certainly a drum tech or somebody who was pulling duty as a backup touring drummer in case of an accident or a medical issue. I think much more of the stress would’ve been tied up in the…

I’m kind of hoping somebody eventually posts a translation, but I don’t want to be disappointed when it’s just... whatever you would expect a dark web bomb to say.

Almost convincing as a Subway sandwich name, but you forgot to include at least one non-word like “freshalicious” or “melty.”

I mostly enjoy him too, but he isn’t always used as well as he could be. For example, in Blade: Trinity I don’t think he has a single line that isn’t sarcastic, and that made it really hard to care whether he gets eaten by vampires or not.

I agree with all of this. Milius definitely created a culture that felt pre-modern in a way that a lot of other ‘80s and subsequent sword and sorcery films really didn’t, just by leaving out all the quippy dialogue and letting Conan and his friends express themselves with their physicality.

In my book, there are just about zero misses in the casting for WWDITS. It’s one of those rare shows that hit the ground running right from the pilot, and has only gotten better since then.

I was ready to leave off Lionel Richie because I’d assumed he was already inducted as a Commodore, but not so. New York Dolls can probably wait for a less crowded year, as can Kate Bush and Eminem. Gun to my head, I guess my five have to be Judas Priest, A Tribe Called Quest, Devo, Pat Benatar, and MC5 — though I…

“JFK spoke to Colm? Christ, that man didn’t have much luck did he?”

I tend to agree with this, as a bigger fan of thrash metal than groove metal. I like just about everything on VDOP, but Far Beyond Driven began the period where Phil Anselmo considered shouting “WHAAAAARRRGGHHH” to be just as good as writing actual lyrics. The success of groove metal demonstrates that it was a…

You have correctly deduced that coming up with the fake names was the part of my comment that took the longest. :D

This way they get to both trade off the idea that it’s actual history (if somewhat fabulized) and “sweeten” things to heighten the drama. I have trouble imagining there would be as much interest in the story of the 1979-1980 season of the Fayetteville Shamrocks, detailing the personality conflicts between gregarious…