The Galactus Trilogy is pretty memorable, but adapt it faithfully and you somehow have to make a giant man in a purple suit look cool; adapt it freely and you end up with a giant space cloud. A lot of the Lee/Kirby stuff is just so out there that even though it works in context, it just doesn't translate to a live…

I mean, you're right. The FF stories from that period introduced tons of characters and key concepts to the Marvel Universe… but while the stories are great, they don't feel like they define the FF so much as they're just great delivery systems for ideas for the Universe as a whole.

I mean, I don't remember any of the individual stories from Armor Wars; I just know that it was all about people stealing Tony's technology and using it for evil.

I'd say Armor Wars is pretty much the defining arc for Iron Man, and they've basically done three variations on it; Age of Ultron and Civil War basically follow the same theme—Tony creates something and it ends up either being stolen and used for evil, or the thing itself turns out to be evil. It's a story directly…

The FF doesn't have a 'Dark Phoenix Saga' or a 'Death of Gwen Stacy;' the property has somehow gone 5 decades without a defining, marquee story arc. That's not to say the stories are bad, but their powers, and how they got them, remain the most instantly identifiable thing about the FF.

There was that seemingly throwaway moment right at the top of the episode where Tai very ceremoniously handed Jason back his idol, which dashed my hope that Tai would just, you know, refuse to give it back once it was in his possession. Little did I know that the editors were setting up some nice symmetry.

I literally stopped the show right before Jeff read the votes and went through all the possible scenarios, and came to the conclusion that, sure, Tai could withhold the idol and send Scot home, but he probably wouldn't. And then I watched what happened and basically hyperventilated with happiness.

I actually enjoy the new Untucked a lot more than the original, Absolut-sponsored, more artificial version. The two rooms, the constant moving from one room to the other, the "game showiness" of it. I feel like I'm getting to know the queens better by the docu-realness of new Untucked. Like, I don't really miss the…

I've been Jimmy Jr., and I feel like I could offer him some insight that could save him a lot of time.

I knew Thorgy was doomed the second they showed her confessional where she listed off Derrick and Chi Chi as the next to go. And then she ignored Michelle's advice in the challenge! Doomed. I'm disappointed that she left, but I'm interested in the rise of Naomi, who apparently ran out of lingerie and decided to start…

According to the possibly spurious but still informative website, celebritynetworth.com, Don McLean rakes in about $300-$500,000 a year based purely on residuals from 'American Pie.' So he's doing OK.

I feel like Tina's in for a number of revelations regarding Jimmy Jr. over the next few years of high school.

My PJ Harvey fandom has taken a meandering turn of late. I love the first 4 albums, probably cause I started listening to her when To Bring You My Love came out and all the music publications where enthroed in simultaneously eargasm over it. But I wasn't as interested in Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea,…

Oh, I'm not saying either of them have a chance in hell of actually winning the game. I just feel like as long as Tai is allied with them he's basically doomed. It would behoove Tai to jump ship as soon as possible, try to get good with Cydney, and keep denying pouring water on that fire.

Tai's position depends entirely on whether he's secure in his alliance with Jason and Scot. Considering he isn't part of Scot and Jason's original Brawn alliance, I feel like he's only going to be around for as long as he's useful, and once the idols are played, he's really got nothing. They know how well-liked he is,…

Since the Super Idol only works once, something tells me that Jason and Scot have no intention of letting Tai use it to save himself. Tai's idol might as well be Scot's idol, at this point. If I were Tai, I'd think about what's really being offered to me.

Hey, me too. I also usually can't get all the way through 100, even though there's parts of it that I absolutely love.

I'll grant you that Story's version actually resembles the FF, but I wouldn't call it okay—Gruffudd was a terrible Reed Richards, and Jessica Alba was an only slightly more passable Sue Storm. Part of the problem with adapting the FF is that people tend to think of them as only the Lee/Kirby version, as if there…

I wish we lived in a world where this could happen.

Are you counting the 1966 Batman movie, ingeniously titled, Batman: The Movie? I guess that counts, even though I doubt anybody had trouble differentiating between that and the Burton film.