Here's hoping The Defenders can do for Danny Rand what The Avengers did for Black Widow.

Unless I've been grossly misinformed, napping is actually pretty common at the opera and symphony. My parents were season ticket holders to both growing up, and I know for an absolute fact my dad dozed off at least once every time they went.

And you never let us forget it.

TIL Dikachu is at least a decade older than I thought.

The wikipedia article on The Gunslinger has a good summary of the changes. I'm sure that's somewhat unkind and loses some flavor, but it's mostly retcon. And the hamfisted George Lucas-style retcon, not the butter-smooth Tolkien-style retcon.

So say we all.

I agree completely. The Gunslinger (the original version, not the ex post facto revision) is my favorite of the series, but is also fairly out of step with them. It's a creepy, sparse story, which doesn't necessarily lend itself naturally to being the opening of "MAJOR FANTASY EPIC."

Which raises the obvious question: why haven't they put Nyssa on Legends of Tomorrow?

That sounds super awkward for her. Do you have a link to the interview?

It's strange that, as the rest of the show has generally gotten worse, Caitlyn-who I think was probably one of the weaker aspects of season 1-has gotten so much better and more interesting.

Yes. There was a GRRM-sized gap between 4 and 5, and it was seriously looking like King might not get around to finishing the series, and then he almost died and had a crisis of "OH GOD MY MAGNUM OPUS MIGHT REMAIN UNFINISHED" and then he blasted out the last three books, one of which explicitly includes a very lightly…

Explicitly not, because a big component of his relationship with Susan is her blackness and his whiteness.

I mean, the desert is hot. And there's so much sand, which gets everywhere. This nice little town is quiet and quaint and there's shade.

Not sure if you haven't read TDT, but it is explicitly a shared universe. All of King's major works and most of his major characters show up during the books.

The sort of knee jerk reaction to this trailer as a betrayal of some piece of grand art is amusing. The Dark Tower is a WILDLY uneven series that serves as much as a sort of kitchen sink deconstruction by the author of his own shared universe of stories as an exorcism of his own mortality after almost dying and an…

Also, It's balloons in the forest.

Apparently anyone who didn't watch the last 15 minutes of DDS2 or any of IF.

I hope during the offseason that everyone involved in the production of this show watches and rewatches season 1 and really sits down to ask themselves, "Why did this work?" Even faster and more so than Arrow, this show seems to have really lost its way, which is sad, because it's both a great cast and a great premise…

I liked Vetra better, but bony plates lost out to adorable accent.

In fairness to this movie, that is not an inaccurate description of the books. The Dark Tower is in many ways a bunch of kids stories extrapolated to dark, gritty, and decaying maturity. Westerns, Arthurian legend, Thomas the Train, anyone who has ever been scared of crustaceans?