So if he'd painted his hair gold, he'd have won?

In the early episodes she was characterised as "the one who doesn't like to be touched", and dated Skinner. They never specifically defined her sexuality, but if she was gay, no-one else seemed to be aware of it.

Frank Gorshin temporarily unavailable? This is a job… for The Puzzler!

Drunk? Probably. Eighty-seven years old? Definitely. But ailing health? Surely not!

Evil Lincoln is from an alternative universe where the Confederacy wanted to get rid of slavery and the Union wouldn't let them.

The cumulative effect of the previous season is to take viewers out of every scene by making us think, "OK, is this bit a hallucination? Is that character real or imaginary?" This makes it hard to take seriously as a techno-thriller.

"There's no point in you outliving your grandparents." A great lesson to teach kids everywhere!

As other cultural commentators have pointed out, most comedies these days are very improv heavy. The directors point the camera at funny people, and hope to edit it together later into something entertaining. That doesn't leave much room for a visual style.

Remember how the Captain always beamed down first on to possibly hostile planets, relying on a couple of bullet-magnet redshirts to keep him safe? Maybe on this show they'll have a sensible policy of sending a Lieutenant Commander to lead away-missions instead.

Probably best to start with the first episode of the current revived series, the one that introduces the Ecclestone Doctor. If you like it, continue from there. If you hate it, then it's probably not for you. If you're still on the fence, try a few of the well-regarded standalone episodes - Google around for the best…

I'm not clear why, having captured the Rubies, they let them all go. What was the goal here?

Bats are legitimately scared of clowns.
(I assume. I mean, isn't everyone?)

According to the book I read about it, yes. It's much more cost-effective to copy news off websites than it is to do research. Newspapers have noticed this now and made big cutbacks to the 'investigation' part of their budget. So there's probably all sorts of important stories that are happening now that we may never…

I assumed there was an implicit understanding when you buy part one of a story that the story will be finished at some point. If the story goes unfinished because of circumstances beyond the author's control (such as the book not selling many copies and the publisher dropping the series, or the author being murdered…

New 52 itself is dead.

I believe in the comics recently she's been saying, "My powers come from [technobabble] so I am medically [and legally] distinct from a mutant, not that there's anything wrong with that."

Obvious answer: Yes. There's no point in banning something if the majority of the participants are circumventing the ban. Right now we have an Olympics where the majority of athletes are cheating, and the non-cheats are highly unlikely to win. How can you take a contest like that seriously?

Is your wife's horse a quadruped? They tend to have a higher body mass index than bipedal horsemen.

Squirrel Girl is completely lacking in the grim and gritty angst that defines all compelling superheroes! There's literally nothing about her that couldn't be enjoyed by an eight year-old girl! And that's the worst thing possible, for obvious reasons! Do you want to live in a world where small girls read superhero…

Poe's Law: it is impossible to tell when someone on the internet is serious or satire.