I'm oddly fine with the cliffhanger being the end to the series. It's memorable. But I'd sure like to see someone else pick it up.

Agreed. Very understated, but it grew in intensity and depth as time went along. The last few scenes of the season finale had me riveted. If it turns out this is it for the series, it'll at least go out memorably.

I can, and will, forgive Bryan Adams for all his schlocky power pop of the '80s and '90s simply because of how good Cuts Like A Knife is.

Whoa whoa whoa, let's back up off Gordon Lightfoot.

I always saw it differently. I had assumed Superman would be, effectively, immortal, even when I was a kid. He was immune to most everything else, including disease and other physical impairments, so why not aging? Later, as I got older, the idea of Supes having the sensibilities of a normal human, but having to watch…

Crisis remains for me the gold standard of huge, sweeping comic events, but I'm actually glad DC has retconned much of it. Crisis itself retconned a lot of stuff that was actually fun, if silly - seriously, Krypto and Supergirl, among many other characters, didn't deserve their post-Crisis fates. Regardless, Crisis…

"High sand content" made me laugh.

No, he's not really, unless you count every "dumb dad" character on TV as a rip-off of another. Homer is somewhat more grounded in reality; Peter is more chaotic.

First, I'm not sure why this is news, and second, I'm not sure why the writer is telling people not to support it. As opposed to supporting, what, some pretentious notion of an artistic project that may or may not see the light of day, but which would appeal more to the equally pretentious sensibilities of AV Club…

She's warm, funny, and sweet on that show, much different from her big screen persona (though as I said elsewhere, they seem to be trying to move the character more towards the movie persona, unfortunately). I get the feeling she could do really well in dramatic roles, based on her work in Mike and Molly; she has an…

She plays a much more sympathetic character in Mike and Molly, where she's funny and sweet. Trouble is, they seem to be trying to skew the character more towards the movie persona that's been established for her, which, I agree, is crude and bellowing in lieu of being funny. I think she's got a lot of potential to…

This comment is a good example of why it pays to look at the username first before responding. Very nice.

There are so many that would torment me, many of them detailed in the article. One that has bedeviled me for decades is only being able to get a song that I love - an oldie, obviously - in a bizarre, re-recorded or live version.

Yeah, I did a double-take at the "bucolic anger" line, too. I went through a list of what they might have meant, including choleric (as mentioned) and bellicose.

My favorite is Run C&W, which did Bluegrass covers of classic Motown songs. Their versions of My Girl and I Second That Emotion are genuinely good.

I was at the San Diego Comic Con where Goyer spoke about the upcoming Batman Begins. At the time, he seemed genuinely enthused about comics, and seemed truly conversant in them and their history. At the time, I had no clue who he was, but I left that panel thinking Batman was in good hands. I'm baffled at how…

I'm not a fan of the Expanded Universe stuff, but the X-Wing novels, which feature Wedge as a main character, are actually good, solid space opera fun. They don't seem like they would contradict much of anything they come up with for the new movies, since the books are pretty self-contained. So you can at least take…

That's true, of course, but "preparing for the zombie apocalypse" too often seems to be code for "I don't trust my neighbors in case of a natural disaster - or any other time, really." I say that because this "preparation" often seems to lean heavily on weaponry rather than a simple bug-out bag.

Regardless of what I think of her politics, The Middle is a genuinely good show, way more thoughtful and insightful than it has any right to be.

The climactic scene has to end with one of the protagonists giving an impassioned speech to Dr. Knowitall that ends with "…can your science explain THAT, professor?" and the professor being left speechless, with a look that is a combination of confusion and dawning epiphany.