The first Austin Powers is really good, and it's the last thing he did that's worth a damn. It killed Myers' career because he's been trying to replicate it ever since. It happens to a lot of artists.

Yeah, I was just trying to acknowledge that the game has a poor reputation. I guess people on Tumblr dismiss others by calling them apologists a lot? Not sure how you could think I was doing that after the next sentence.

Anti-abortion conclaves tend to focus on gruesome forms of abortion that are illegal in the US anyway (partial birth, etc.). I'm sure many of them don't draw much distinction between those practices and legal abortions, to the point that they probably imagine these unethical methods to be how most or all legal…

Oh, an VIII apologist! I have a lot of affection for it though I ultimately don't consider it a success. What is your reasoning for why it's better than everyone thinks?

Check out his band The Birthday Party from before the Bad Seeds. It's crazy shit, but it's fucking brilliant and has had a wide-ranging influence.

I disagree. This movie has a strong feel of corporate executives trying to be edgy by committee. It reeks of "This nonsense is what you crazy kids think is cool, right?"

Fundamentally, they took the wrong lesson from The Dark Knight. Ledger reinvented the Joker for the new era. They should have taken their cue from that. They might have been accused of just riding his coattails, but if they did it well history would simply have seen Ledger as the originator of this era's take on the…

That Burton one will always be "The Batmobile" to me, mostly because they used it in the animated series. Just like Kevin Conroy will always be the voice of Batman and Danny Elfman's theme will always be the "real" Batman theme. I fully admit my bias, but I think all those things are good enough to be considered…

Especially in this era of internet pornography, leaving something to the imagination is much sexier. That skintight jumpsuit could have been sexy as fuck.

Tuning the dial away from the Office-clone cynicism of the first season toward the peppy up-with-peopleness of the rest was obviously a great move for that show. But I always thought they twisted that dial just a few clicks too far.

They definitely shouldn't bury that 'edit subscriptions' button the way they do. Took me a while to find too.

I can see your point, but when it comes to Superhero properties I'm all about the villains. Supergirl hasn't had a truly great one yet, and Lena is already halfway to all-time great villain if they take her in that direction. I doubt whatever else they could come up with instead would be nearly as good.

Just create and account, unsubscribe to all the default subs, then go to 'subreddits' and 'edit subscriptions.' Then search for any topic you're interested in discussing on the internet and there will probably be a sub for it. Subscribe to the ones that appeal.

This is an excellent point. I go to Reddit frequently and I literally never see even the slightest hint of this shit. I think people who don't use it don't realize just how decentralized it is.

Stein's daughter wasn't caused by Flashpoint. She was the result of Stein interacting with his younger self on Legends.

No, that's not what I'm getting at. It absolutely would be emotionally powerful to learn that. And he has Barry to blame for it. But by the same token he also has Barry to thank for every moment with the son he has now.

I've seen a lot of comments online that consider this tantamount to murder as well. I find that very odd. Yes, there's no more Sara Diggle and that is weird and fucked up, but there's also a new person who would never have existed otherwise. It's a little different.

I generally agree with your criticisms but I feel like this season has dialed back the angst and drama from last season, which was even worse. I wish they'd dial it back further, but I still see this season as a step in the right direction, and I'm actually still hopeful that the back half will be really good. The…

I'm not sure what all the factors where, but they really should have found a way to schedule it differently. This season of Supergirl has a lot more of the same appeal as the other DCW shows than last season. If they had made this crossover a good showcase for that I think they might have drawn in some…

Oliver used to get pretty busy on Arrow. It's been a while, hasn't it?