Though while monotheism and monogamy aren't quite the sacred cows that they were in 1961, an unmodified adaptation would now simply run into different ones. :-)

Getting political power requires placing yourself at the service of the state, but that's also the only way anyone gets placed into state service. (Vs. fascism where subordination to the state is a default expectation for every person and organization.) If you don't want to work for the state, you simply don't, and…

Comics Wally ramped up in power over Messner-Loebs and Waid's runs. He was still sub-Mach 1 at the beginning, while by the end he was much faster than this show's Barry. (Who is somehow time traveling while doing low multiples of the speed of sound.)

Aliens were established in Earth-1's future by Legends of Tomorrow, which mentioned but didn't show a Thanagarian invasion. (And magic is all over the place in Arrow.)

That's a really good critique. It would be better if Cisco were a general tech guy and they left the superhacker role to Felicity. (Who they can call on when the need is great, but can't go to every week.) And if hacking weren't a superpower in itself, but could only access information that might plausibly be…

Wells says that it's a refuge on Earth-2 for apes that were experimented on. (Though it's not clear that he realizes that the experiments resulted in tool use, etc.)

Which one?

Mike's disciples are also casually nude in the Nest, which I suspect won't survive the adaptation. SyFy will do the occasional scene for titillation, but it's not going to go full Spartacus or spend entire episodes using strategic camera angles.

Even taken at face value, the book isn't remotely fascist. I'm skeptical about the society working as stated (and so I'm sure was Heinlein, who was much more about playing with ideas than pushing messages). But that's true of most SF societies, especially the aspirational ones.

That reminds me of the radio series prequel to "The Third Man", which would always begin with the gunshot that killed Harry Lime, after which he would narrate his pre-Vienna adventures in the first person.

There aren't really any politics in the first chapter— it's about a combat drop. The closest it gets to politics is that we learn that Juan's platoon is multiethnic (his sergeant is a "Finno-Turk") and multireligious (including but not limited to "Moslems, Christians, Gnostics, Jews"), and that the military isn't…

I'll be kind of shocked if it's possible to do a good adaptation of Stranger. Way too much of the book takes place in the characters' heads, and without all the philosophizing it would read like the rise of a cult leader. (Which it is, but the cult really does have a line on some truths as far as the story is…

This strains credulity, to put it politely.

They did remake "Casablanca", as a Pamela Anderson vehicle of all things: "Barb Wire".

If it's based on the book, there isn't a meteor that destroyed Buenos Aires. The Bugs there use weapons and fly starships, and BA is destroyed in a clear-cut raid that Juan only half-notices in the war news. (Later he finds out his mother was there for a shopping trip when it happened; still later he finds out that…

Movies cast a wider net than books generally— even something like Harry Potter has more viewers than readers. But while Heinlein has slipped somewhat into eclipse since his heyday, the book has been in print continuously since publication, won awards, and could be relied upon to produce a discussion (usually…

I haven't read it, but someone told me it just demanded people serve their country to vote. If they did not believe in fighting they could do a kibbutz, it was like Israel

Nor would digging into the back of his nightstand drawer and pulling out the flight ring. :-)

Stigler's law of eponymy. :-)

After Batman v. Superman, the last thing we need is another dramatic death of Jimmy Olsen. If he's not working, put him on a bus back to Metropolis.