They could explain that, though, right?  I remember Darkseid from the Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid, and I'd never heard of him before, but I soon realized he was finally a bad guy who is a match for Superman.  How many casual fans of Batman knew who the fucking Scarecrow was for Nolan's first movie?

Back in the 1980s, when they retconned Superman with the Man of Steel series, they had a companion series called The World of Krypton, which was all about what happened on the doomed planet in the generations before Jor-El figured out that the planet was going to explode, then culminated in Jor-El's Cassandra moment. …

I was born in 1974, saw the first Superman movie in the theater and numerous times on cable after that.  I had the same complaints as a young person about how crappy the flying looked.  I mean, green-screen technology wasn't a real new thing by then, so they might have been able to make it look smoother, less fake,…

Somewhere in there is Clark looking at one of those pay-phone stall things that only went from the shoulder to the waist — not a full-blown phone booth like in the classic years — and he kind of shakes his head in disapproval.  Genius.

But he's not tough to write for in the comics — or, at least, he wasn't in the 1980s and early 1990s, when I was reading them.  He may have super strength, invulnerability, etc., but he's still a human, in the sense that he has powerful psychological motivations and conflicting desires.  His weaknesses aren't just…

Cervical cancer, indirectly, yes!

You know why the laugh track on The Muppet Show never bothered me?  Because they cut away to show an audience full of Muppets during the opening credits, which made all that canned laughter more of a sound effect, like something the characters on the show were generating.

I like Lauren Graham, so I am pleased with this development and wish her success.

I was in Paris about three years later, and there were still flowers, picture, etc. at the makeshift shrine at the crash site.  I only knew it was the crash site because of all that crap.

Well, I think she did have some kind of eating disorder…

Being rich and socialist is the best!

"Hey, wait a minute.  Our colors are the same colors as the people we're fighting this war against!  We need a new flag!"

I love seeing "Cougar" without the quotation marks in his name.

Or Lana Lang.

Mark Hamill gets all kinds of shit for not being a great actor, but he really did nail the emotional devastation that would necessarily come from finding out that *******SPOILER******* (I guess, but there are lots of obviously younger readers here lately) your father is the King Hell Bad Guy of the Galaxy.

Here's how I remember it.  During the 40th-birthday episode, Megan says, with mock sadness, "No one loves Dick Whitman," and Don also says that he actually turned 40 a few months before that big blow-out.  So, Megan knows that Don changed his name, and assumed a different birth date.  Big deal, right?  Plenty of…

Yep.  After all, Pete was wearing that double-breasted vest that looked like it was straight (!) out of Oscar Wilde's closet (!).

You missed a thigh bone in there…

She also named the rat Manuel, and was growing quite attached to it, hence her confusion.

…and apparently getting pumped full of drugs, so it looks like an accident, because you know too much, by the CIA, working with the RAND Corporation and the reverse vampires, counts as "suicide" now.