I don't think the superweapon thing had been turned on yet.

I'll be pretty pissed off if it's Hush.
Honestly, I hope it's not Killer Croc either. The character's just not interesting enough to justify the reality-stretching they'd need to do to make him disfigured enough to work.

Okay, so are we thinking for villains?
Obviously anyone with immense superpowers is out. They depowered Ra's Al Ghul, but anyone who couldn't be a threat without superpowers is clearly not on the table.
We now know it won't be the Riddler, and Nolan has said in the past he doesn't want to do the Penguin.
Who's left?…

I vote GLEE.

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I too will throw in a wholehearted Fuck Yeah for the Muppet show piece. I'm really excited to hear what Noel has to say about the series in general.

I mean, I think it's unparalleled as empty spectacle, but there's really reason we can't have spectacle that's presented with a legit story.
Though as far as all the racism, I feel like the portrayals in the film are just too historically confused and meaningless to add up to what could be called 'racist.' It's really…

SleaZe in modern film isn't really sleaze, either.

Yeah, sleave in modern film isn't really sleaze. It's either some lame attempt at a postmodern comment on sleaze, or it's a cynical grab for the supposed commercial value of sleaze, as here. The old, actual grindhouse stuff that's getting nostalgically aped now was just genuinely willing to be gross as fuck for the…

Actually, Crassus, I think we all filled that part in.

I Talk Loudly On The Phone While You're Trying To Watch Television.

tibber—
I agree that us ruling and fucking the rest if the world is preferable to the Nazis ruling and fucking the rest of the world, but I think Shore Patrol's points stand as an excellent rebuttal to Jim's idea of WWII as an unassailable good. Sure, we needed to do something, but what we did was done in the name of…

Yeah, I agree—Goyer needs a disciplined collaborator to get good work done, and disciplined is exactly what Snyder ain't. Unless Nolan ends up being VERY hands-on (unlikely given he's probably be making Batman 3 around the same time, right?) this is probably going to blossom from "a bit of a mess" to "unambiguously a…

Yeah, that show is (was?) called NUMBERS. I think t was spelled some obnoxious way.

Yeah, I feel like she'd need at least some accelerated mental faculties just to function at those speeds, but maybe it's just her spatial reasoning? I would imagine the ability to not whack your head on a doorframe at WTF mph would be located in a different part of your brain from math skills.

Yeah, I'm thinking that power's gonna branch out to be some kind of…I dunno, intuitive understanding of complex patterns? That still sounds lame on the face of it, but it could have implications of various kinds. Super-engineering, along the lines of Forge?

It's certainly not the height of narrative sophistication. There's fun to be had with the Silver Age, though—especially in its latter few years, when I feel like the whole sure-why-not sensibility of the writing bled over into the art and we got some awesomely manic pages. There are also elements of Silver Age art…

Loaded the page before Sean posted. I stand corrected.

I don't think the Siegel and Shuster estates are involved here. I think it might be the currently attached individual producers who'd be in danger of loding it, not necessarily the company? Warner Bros. definitely does own DC.

Then ending of Batman Begins REALLY blurs the whole "Batman does not kill" thing that was an essential theme in BB, and then became an essential conflict in Dark Knight.