Was Living Weapon the one where Danny's a schmuck and there's a monster with a giant Wendell Rand head? Because if so, I might've maligned the second Immortal Iron Fist creative team unnecessarily. (Puts "re-read Immortal Iron Fist" on Marvel Unlimited to-do list.)

His wealth may predate the team-up, but I have a feeling the real reason they made him a billionaire was to introduce more culture clash into his relationship with Luke Cage.

I loved the narration boxes shouting out the ludicrous names of each Kung Fu move he uses, and I love how well Brubaker and Fraction got Danny's relationships, (and particularly the sometimes-shaky cultural ground he shares) with Luke, Misty, and the residents of K'un Lun.

They're going to have to do something to establish Thrawn as a real threat, and they're going to have to avoid the Kallas trap, where he fails repeatedly to beat the rebels and winds up looking toothless (see also last season's Inquisitors). However, I think that this might actually be a good prequel to Heir to the…

Episode 3's justification for Anakin becoming Vader—"I have to turn to
the dark side so that I can find the magical cure for death and not have
to worry about my secret wife dying!"—made no damn sense and made it seem like Darth Vader was a chump who got suckered into a career serving the Emperor. For Ezra, his fight…

Amen. For both Clone Wars Anakin and for Ezra, the thing that draws them to the dark side is the war, the feeling that they have to abandon the principles of the Jedi in order to beat their enemies. That character progression both makes sense within their stories, and fits with Yoda's admonitions about the dark side…

Actually, Rollo Tomassi sounds like Lobot's non-cybernetic life partner.

As long as there's a government to control, there will be parties jockeying to take that control. That'd be particularly true in a situation like this, where the federal government's been decapitated but it's not part of a generalized nationwide disaster like a nuclear war. DS's America is still about 40% full of…

It can be both things.

It can be two things.

I know this now. But my point is that this was not apparent from the coverage at the time.

…and yet that's precisely the approach Jeremy Irons chose! He was like that SNL sketch where everyone overpronounces Spanish words with Bob Costas(?), just with French. It was like he was sneering at Gerard Depardieu, "I'm Frencher than you, byatch."

Malkovich isn't notoriously bad at accents. He's notoriously awesome at bad accents. There's a difference.

The distinction being, Hitchcock considered those stories that he optioned, not "IPs." Burton hasn't been interested in stories for a long while.

I would upvote, but I think the 69 this comment currently has is appropriate.

She may not have been a murderer, but Anthony filed false reports, and the best case scenario is that Anthony's daughter died in large part due to her neglect—so there are legitimate reasons for people to hate her, even if the legal system worked properly in her case.

To be honest, I didn't follow this case very closely, but none of the coverage I saw really emphasized the fact that she was innocent, even when she was let out of jail. The "neutral" reporter "she said…and then the other side responded" tone of the coverage left the impression that her innocence was very much in…

I assume the suit was not merely about whether he was a denier, but about her accusing him of professional incompetence or dishonesty in presenting his Holocaust denial as the work of a legitimate historian. So he wouldn't be denying that he's a Holocaust denier, he'd be arguing that denying the Holocaust is a…

Then he could (and would) sue anyone who sues anyone! Genius!

It was Sony's lawyer's fault. He never should've walked into that meeting with a bag lunch. It was as if he was giving away all the studio's leverage!