To answer the most irrelevant of your questions, the universal translator is, basically, magic. The treknobabble explanation is that it listens to other languages, analyzes their structure and syntax, and spits out a translation lickety-split; it can analyze and translate NEW languages in addition to the ones it…

This is not, of course, to say that using physical models doesn't have it's place.

I actually, somehow, didn't know that about Sleeping in Light until I found that out here, a few weeks ago.

Star Trek also had the budget to mix in more model work with the CGI, and to do the necessary post-production work to clean stuff up more than B5 could.

Plus, it had the biggest space battle I'd ever seen on a TV show at the time.

I'm not sure Londo was considered a buffoon, per se. More like he'd risen to the level of his incompetence and wasn't viewed as a mover and shaker.

I fucking hate that song.

I have mixed-to-negative feelings about G'Kar the Prophet,

The battle with the Shadow forces is actually pretty impressive—we see the Narns actually damage one (for all the good it does them) and sadly still get wiped out was pretty good,

Sideshow Bob is the source of that verbal tic of mine, yes. I use "Cheerfully (verb)!" quite a lot.

I did. Cheerfully edited!

Hagath is so clearly, malevolently insane,

Tasha Yar's Planet of the Rapes

I will note that pre-Crisis Luthor, who wasn't a business but rather a rogue scientist, was probably not as rich as Bruce Wayne.

TV club has weird gaps in what it does and doesn't cover sometimes. Like, Gravity Falls and Adventure Time both rate full weekly coverage, but Friendship is Magic got, like, one random episode reviewed two years ago.

I'd like to note, in response to the numerous people who, quite rightly, called me out about Silver Age Superman/Clark Kent being a much different beast than the modern one…

Followed, of course, by Batman and WW on JLU

It's like Frank Miller was giving them notes

Are you thinking about the time Batman disappeared and Superman had to pretend to be him, teaming up with Tim Drake and generally being awesome?

Both Batman and Clark Kent are disguises that hide Bruce and Kal-El’s
true natures, but they’ve grown to enjoy the masks they put on because
it gives them a sense of purpose. Batman gives Bruce the opportunity to
seek vengeance for his parents’ murders, while Clark gives Kal the
opportunity to have the family that was…