I feel like if you’ve scored “Running Up That Hill” over a scene of a young teenager running up a hill, you’ve probably committed to being on the nose. But “Master” has the frenetic energy that scene needed, whereas “Bell” is more of a rumbling, doomy anthem. It’s one of Metallica’s easiest songs to play, which is why…

Re: Stargate, according to Wikipedia he was the runner-up to play Ambassador G’Kar. S0 he almost ran the table!

As a quiet aside: RIP William Morgan Sheppard, “Blank Reg” from the ABC Max Headroom show, who just passed away back in 2019. And is the dad of prolific sci-fi genre actor Mark Sheppard, I happened to learn about that time.

The thing that seemed to work best for the superhero shows airing on broadcast TV (your Gothams and Agents of SHIELD, for example) was cutting the season into multiple arcs of 6-8 episodes each. Which makes sense, because that’s pretty much how comic book stories play out too. Hopefully that’s what we’re looking at…

Step to him, and you’ll have to get through Bono and Sandra Day O’Connor!

Don Cheadle stepping in for Terrence Howard as Rhodey/War Machine was another pretty big MCU actor switcheroo. I think that worked out all right, whether or not The Usual Hollywood Bullshit was ultimately responsible.

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Oh yeah, when the show was airing there were plenty of contemporaneous calls (by Oprah Winfrey, among others) for them to diversify the cast, which led to the Aisha Tyler story arc. So this feels a lot more like a $4M donation to your alma mater that you’d like to get some positive press for than an unprompted…

A throwaway joke that I didn’t quite get: when Muneeba and Kamala are sharing toffee and Kamala complains about how tough it is to chew, is the suggestion that the boxes Nani had cluttering up the house are really stale? (I know US toffee is not quite the same thing as toffee you get elsewhere, so I wasn’t sure if I…

This one has an easy dodge, though: every version of the game has allowed (even encouraged) the DM to make up their own house rules for things that are not covered in the printed rulebooks. Speaking as someone who was an AD&D nerd in the ‘80s, if Erica saw a picture of a kukri and wanted it for her character, as a 1st…

For anyone who doesn’t know, the fancy cinema adjective for music playing in the scene, rather than over the scene, is “diegetic.” Just passing this almost totally useless fact along so it can clutter up other people’s brains.

Not for nothing, but Fillion’s current show, The Rookie, has also seen some awful behavior, including a lead actress quitting because not enough was done to curtail sexual harassment of her by a recurring guest star: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/08/04/the-rookie-afton-williamson-quits-alleges-se…

They do appear in both, as it happens, but you are correct that the two terms are not synonymous. Anybody who is intrigued by the djinn’s whole deal could do worse than to read the Daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty, which is probably not going to help with figuring out exactly what the MCU djinn have going on, but…

One of my favorite comics-Aamir moments is when he tells Kamala that Lockjaw (the giant, Inhuman, teleporting dog who is palling around with her for a few issues) can’t sleep in the house because he’s ritually unclean. A perfect example of how completely no-fun he is.

President of the Navy, also. That position is filled.

You make a good point, and yet genre fiction is full of entities that supposedly have the power to destroy whole cities, but somehow always settle for throwing the heroes around or shooting at them with purple energy beams that knock them out for a minute or so. Telekinesis in particular is one of TV’s favorite superpo…

But complaining and impatience is what being a fan on the internet is all about!

I was just reminded of this recently, because I finally finished off the last bunch of episodes of Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas which had been sitting on my DVR since they aired in June of ‘19. HBO was promoting a documentary about the making of the final season of GoT, full of the swagger of producers who don’t know…

That’s great news. As a mere stripling of a 48-year-old, I resent being burdened with the expectation of doing things. Four more years until I’m free!

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…