I find I'm with you 100%, Oliver. But as to the difficulty of adapting certain comic characters into movies, no one has the failure rate of the Punisher.

It's a good thing that Kanye possesses the production skills he has. Because there is little on this record that speaks to any ability as a rapper. It's not good or funny or skillful or distinctive. It mainly follows the current trend of rappers basically being as offensive as they can be (see Rick Ross' date rape…

Okay, so the Swons didn't win, so I don't have to quit the show outright. But will Danielle Bradberry live up to our dreams and become the less grating Taylor Swift we want her to be? I have little interest in finding out.

I agree about Sarah and the mu-mus, But I think that she was running out of performance gas by the time she was eliminated. She was getting stuck with a lot of Lilith Fair material, and when Adam tried to darken her up by giving her that Gotye song to sing, she made no connection with it at all. She seemed ready to…

I don't want to be the person that says this, but of course I will be: The show is called the Voice. I think the Swons are agreeable enough. They will most likely have a successful career.

I understand what you're saying, as you stress the show's lack of an enduring superstar. But that's also because record labels these days don't know shit about how to break an artist. First season contestant Dia Frampton got a record out with a low-key release. Fist season champ Javier Colon's album was even more…

You're damn right.

My question: Who didn't see the rape metaphor coming?

Sounds feasible. You win the No-Prize.

Here's an (over) thought: When I was a kid with a pinned-on bath towel cape, running through my mom's laundry on the clothesline, I was pretending to be Superman. When little Clark Kent does that in the movie, who is he pretending to be? His future self?

John Oliver is probably the only person on hand who could fill in for Jon Stewart. His comedic persona is the most adaptable, and he approaches his comedy similarly to Stewart, albeit a little more articulately. I really would have liked to see Wyatt Cenac in this role, but timing is everything, I guess.

He's just like Edward Snowden, a real-life superhero.

I don't have a problem with the new Clark/Lois dynamic defined by the end of the movie (both working at the Planet, she knows his identity, they are obviously attracted to each other). The old business of the two working together without her knowing his identity, is unworkable these days, as well as played out.

Luthor has been botched in the movies so often now, with Gene Hackman's toupeed vaudevillian and Spacey's unique but uncompelling master plan, that the character is pretty much toxic.

As far as the Super-Killer thing, prior to the New 52 reboot, Superman did kill. But unlike the movie-Supes, who seemingly bounced back instantly, the comic Supes had a mental break, and temporarily exiled himself in outer space.

When I first saw Snyder's Sucker Punch, after hearing he was to make Man of Steel, the one thing that gratified me about that movie was the fact that Snyder could handle heavy-duty action pretty well. I mean, the movie failed at everything else, but the action set pieces were pretty good. And after the dearth of…

I've read about Snyder's persistent Christ imagery in this movie. It seems sort of unfair to try to blatantly co-opt the vision of Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish boys.

The idea for Thrift Shop isn't what causes me problems. Hip hop is too full of guys like ASAP Rocky, with his $1,200 hoodie from Barney's.

I live in the DC area, and I usually tune into shows like this to see how pathetically wrong they get things (i,e., we all don't live or work within view of the goddam National Mall).I didn't see the pilot from the beginning, but there's some blatant Toronto-swapping going on here.

Man, these guys are brutal. Benioff, Weiss, and Martin, that is. First, the whole business with the wolf-head and Robb's body. I thought, I'm not seeing what I'm seeing, am I? And then Theon. I assumed, before his storyline went on hiatus a few weeks ago, that he wasn't actually going to be castrated. They just put a…