But I hope the budget doesn't send Kara into endless night battles. Supergirl belongs in the sun.

No, it's okay. He's really a centaur!

Which is to say: we miss Christopher Reeve.

All we want is a lightweight, comfortable, breathable, extremely elaborate costume made out of bulletproof metal that in no way restricts or impedes the movement of the wearer! Is that so much to ask?

Supposedly we're getting Snapper Carr in Supergirl season 2.

To be fair, in "The Cage" the Orions were "merely" slave traders/humanoid traffickers. The piracy came later, e.g., in "Journey to Babel", where they're trying to sabotage the Federation in part to be able to continue raiding Coridan.

No matter how settled and sophisticated the Federation is, it's a really big galaxy. (And if they're really convinced that visiting small parts of the Gamma and Delta quadrants make that "not the frontier", intergalactic aliens were first established in TOS.)

TOS season 1 included "Balance of Terror", "The Galileo Seven", "Space Seed", "Errand of Mercy", and "City on the Edge of Forever". It wasn't all gems (e.g., "The Alternative Factor"), but it's roughly comparable with the second season. It's only the third season that really had issues as a whole. (And even that…

I don't think having a two-tiered commercial/no commercial structure is crazy. If selling ads subsidizes production, let viewers decide whether to watch them or pay the subsidy directly. I'm fine with smartphone apps that are free-with-ads or pay-for-ad-free, Amazon Kindles where you can pay a bit more and not be…

There's always the plot justification of selling "Polar Costume Batman" action figures and "Neon Talking Super Street Batluge" toys.

Wow— I would have bet money that link would have gone to this image:

The weirdest to me is the name HMS Inconstant, which the Royal Navy has used multiple times. I know the RN was a big fleet that needed lots of names, but that seems like naming your ship the Unreliable or the Sure-to-Sink.

Freeform really doesn't have any kind of coherent theme any more.

A more elegant edit, for a more civilized age.

People must, or they wouldn't run movies on TNT. But I admit that for me those are just snares for my TiVo wishlists. ("Awesome! I finally got— oh, never mind.")

Absolutely— of all of the literalizations of metaphors for adolescent experiences during Buffy's early (and I think strongest) years, that was one of the most powerful and memorable.

Well, except for Angel.

Likewise in the late 70s: Battlestar Galactica on road trips to Florida! (At least till my little brother spilled his soda onto my box of tapes…)

Mostly, certainly, though IIRC WOR 9 was also a factor. And as a small child I was enthralled by my rare glimpses of Wonderama (me: "Wona'ama!" my grandparents: "Why does he want a hammer?!?"), which Wikipedia tells me was on WNEW 5.

Four also, networks plus PBS. I barely knew there was such a thing as an independent TV station except when we visited my grandparents in New York. (Those stations showed Gilligan's Island! And Superman! And the Flintstones! And then the rug was pulled out from under me when it was time to go home.)