Sam Hamm, the guy who wrote the script, wanted Willem Defoe as the Joker.

Made from potatoes. Close enough.

It's good! You can actually see Simon Pegg's hand in the way things are set up early and then pay off by the end. Like the Cornetto Trilogy!

Cesar Romero was the first live action Joker I ever saw, and Hamill's voice is still the one I hear in my head when I read Joker comics.

This guy is 40? Okay, I don't have that much gray in my beard… I'm feeling a little bit better about being middle-aged today.

My wife is playing the Lego Jurassic Park game now, and it's a testament to how much I enjoy Sam Neill in general that the game is not driving me crazy.

I can now get notifications on all devices (rather than just my work computer) but I can no longer react to them. Meaning, to respond or upvote, I have to go back into the article and search for the exchange. Fine for articles with not many responses, but kind of irritating for articles like this. Oh well… say it with…

I enjoyed the Live slam. I knew women in college who fucking loved Live (and Dave Matthews) and the constant stream of that shit drove me up the fucking wall.

Obligatory UHF quote…

We all have stories.

It's Zelazny. There's probably some kind of joke in there somewhere, although that's not it.

Probably. But not the way you think.

Even from the beginning, the series worked as sets of trilogies: two books of anthology style setting things up, then a "mosaic novel" to wrap up the plot threads. The newer ones follow the same model.

I believe I mentioned that.

I like that cinematic Tony's character boils down to: he think he can invent something to fix everything. And even though he will never be able to, he can't keep from trying.

I'm sure it eventually got explained somewhere in the EU.

Gigantipithecus been extinct a good long while, mate. They aren't still bigfoots.

Didn't Tarzan handle that shit?

I believe that the "Dark Young" are really just Shoggoths in a Bloch story, and really only became "Dark Young" because of the RPG. Or am I off base?

Thor isn't the kind of guy who feels a setback the way the others do. Everyone else needs the farm to rest up and get their heads back in the game - Thor has to go out and do stuff. He's also clearly uncomfortable around the children. Him stepping on their toys and then immediately deciding to leave was a nice,…