Star Trek Into Darkness…fun, but a massively weak and unearned second half has it kinda ruined for me in retrospect. It looks like a Box Office disappointment as well based on the returns, I don't expect Orci, Lindelof and Kurtzman to return for the next film…which could be some time away.

I wouldn't be at all…I'd be applauding the show for actually knocking a character off.

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus No sir, Best ep this year would be Hide though Name of the Doctor certainly comes close for the sheer excitement it caused in me, not seen since The Wedding of River Song.

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus For what it's worth, Johns' GL (which was quickly starting to tank post-Blackest Night) and Morrison's Batman run were the only titles I was reading at that point until the New 52 launch hit and reinvigorated a few things creatively…killed a number of others, but that's…

This episode was an A, easily, I loved the explanation for Clara..along with the most explicit Classic Who stuff yet. I was a little annoyed with them not keeping Jenny dead, which would have been a pretty amazing death sequence and stifles some of the stakes for these characters. But on the whole, I loved every…

This. The fans in my life that were simply along for the 10/Rose stuff are people that have been looking for a Buffy/Angel replacement, but have generally little interest in anything before or after, or rather love to complain about the after.

Yeah, I can see what you mean…I'm thinking anything that has any significant plot ramifications on the New Series. For example, Davies used to claim that the first shot in the Time War was Genesis of the Daleks. I didn't know if there was anything else that has such ties to the on-going narrative or even individual…

Hey question for the Classic Who guys, Mr. Greene, @avclub-1922cc1dc1286b56a2d99b7f1aa0630c:disqus , etc al…what are the Classic serials that have some bearing on the current series. Beyond like first appearances of The Daleks and Cybermen, etc…is it just the first episode and Genesis of the Daleks? I'm trying to…

Uhhhh….I like Nicholas Briggs, but I certainly don't buy any of the audios he writes…as his writing is downright terrible. They're consistently the low-lights of the range.

Hell, it was barely called Threshold since "The Hunted" was in bigger font.

Mid-2000s DC was a pretty rad place though, I preferred that to late 90's DC…it was around 2010 when things started really tanking.

And now James Robinson just announced on Twitter he's leaving Earth 2 with Issue #16 and thusly leaving DC comics…shame, it's a fun title. That place is a mess.

Favorite: At least lately has to be No Country for Old Men, where we have this film that's absolutely building up to a show-down between Chigurh and Moss, and instead Moss gets gunned down by a bunch of Mexican hoods and the movie just kind of ends. I love it.
Also way up there, Grant Morrison's Final Crisis, what was…

@avclub-d542a3419c3ad57206a96bcc86155ebc:disqus For what it's worth, TDKR is far superior to Iron Man 3, my opinion only of course. Iron Man 3 just looks a hell of alot better by comparison to its predecessor which was a smoking turd. TDKR is a step down from the film before it, but how could it not be?

Right, it basically just needs to be a Superman/Superboy book again in order to get the numbers that DC wants.

Fatale improves by leaps and bounds in its second and third arc, which I attribute to character familiarity, and its willingness to drop the less than interesting main protagonist and focus more on the "title character".

I liked the Red Robin issue of "Batman and…" just for its weirdness, but the Red Hood book….just didn't do it for me, at all. Might have been the worst thing I read last week.

I generally like Bendis dialogue, but let's just say…he doesn't exactly have a good knack for writing Miles and the other kids his age. It's definitely a middle-aged man's version of what he thinks teenagers sound like. I ended up dropping this around the time it got roped into that terrible crossover with Sam…

exactly, it's ludicrous…it's the magic black goop/light cave of this franchise.

But wasn't the point of the last scene in the previous film that they weren't to ever see each other again? Maybe I'm misremembering something, but it seems careless for old Spock to answer his call, I'm also just not sure what it really adds to the plot…other than, oh hey Nimoy! He died in Wrath of Khan!