I'm not opposed to this in theory…
…but Eric Kripke is a terrible writer. Seriously. The only reason Supernatural is any good because it has a couple of decent writers attached. Its core concept and structure is incredibly lazy and unambitious, and Sandman is the exact opposite—it would pretty much require one of the…

I used to seriously dislike De Palma, mostly because I had the misfortune to stumble on his weaker, later work first. Even The Untouchables (the first De Palma movie I saw, in high school, before I had any idea who he was) came at the wrong time for me to really appreciate it. Body Double I…watched with my parents.…

I'm about 6 episodes into S2 and I don't feel like the focus has changed much at all. And the first season was so unfocused that I don't really see any change in direction as disorienting.

Trendy or not, it's still a touch of characterization. I didn't say it was a stroke of genius, just that it's something a human being might do when they're not catching serial killers, expositing or showing off how much they love their family. Which is pretty much all Frank did throughout S1, creating the impression…

Millennium
I started watching this show again precisely because of these columns. Turns out I stopped watching it originally right before it got (somewhat) interesting, with "Force Majeure". Though as a whole the first season has that half-baked, "we have no idea where we're going with this" feel that X-Files…

He's fuckin' Lou. Who the fuck are you?

Definitely my biggest possible issue with the series. It's going to be kind of annoying if the Dothraki get the Hollywood Whitewash treatment, since this is one fantasy series that actually features a pretty extensive non-white cast.

If I were Peter Dinklage, I wouldn't know how to feel about being repeatedly told I wasn't ugly enough for the part.

Superman's a great character who's been handled badly for most of his career. Moore and Morrison are the ones who have really realized the potential of the character (by the way, check out Moore's Marvelman/Miracleman and Supreme, which are both Superman comics in all but name; Supreme in particular is a HUGE…

I've always felt that no major pop culture touchstone got shafted more than The Matrix. Yes, there are aspects of the sequels that are disappointing, but on the whole they're really interesting and actually attempt to do something new with the basic ideas of the franchise, instead of just milking it. And I'm with…

I don't blame them. It's not like I ever did anything important.

Very Cool
I'm really happy to see the return of comics reviews to the AV Club. Let me add another vote to the idea of multiple contributors—that always helped provide a nice range of comics. I'm a tad worried about the two different columns becoming ghetto-ized.

Cheesy as it is, "FREEZE!" "That's MISTER Freeze to you." is a Schwartzenegger-worthy one-liner. And yes, I appreciate the irony of that statement.

Again, it's not that I didn't want Wesley to change—my issues aside, there's some very very good stuff in Wesley's character arc. It's just that the total and complete transformation always felt a bit hamfisted to me, even if it makes sense on a moment-to-moment basis. I'm not convinced that they did much of anything…

I don't inherently have a problem with him becoming more competent and a better fighter, but it was so abrupt and absolute. Yeah, watching over the course of two seasons it's a little easier to swallow, but it's still too much in too short a time. Maybe I'd swallow it more easily if he hadn't also gone from comic…

See, I feel like Riley (spelling!) is used perfectly in this episode—he gets way more interesting when he's had all kinds of adventures offscreen. So if you think he's boring, isn't this more or less ideal?

…aaaand here we have the flipside of my comments in the above thread. Wesley is "cool" because he goes from goofy to dark and troubled and morally dubious.

I think it's very interesting that so many people despise Reilly, because I think that speaks to where the show went wrong over time: its obsessive need to make the characters unpleasant and damaged. Reilly bucks that trend harder than almost any other character. And I love it. I love that there's at least one…

…You guys do realize that "I feel full after the risotto" is deliberately ambiguous, right?

Thor kicks the shit out of frost giants. And robots. And some kind of CGI monster. What's not to love?