There was always going to be a big cost to establishing a big library of content. (Netflix, crazy popular though it is, loses content regularly and only became profitable recently.) Note that Redbox Instant and Amazon Instant Video already exist, though; maybe each of them align themselves with an ISP in future.

Freedom Force (and the sequel, FF Versus the Third Reich) could be and was modded up the proverbial wazoo to bring in your favourite DC/Marvel/what-have-you powers and characters. Loved, loved that about it. Had a lively online mod community until very recently, - not bad for such an old game

Exactly. I suspect Glover's worried about spreading himself too thin creatively. Or he fears ending up in a Fast and Furious movie, which … might make me see it?

I dunno, there's also Mike Campbell's guitar outro. Tasteful but shockingly long for a hit song. Kind of indelible, really.

I'm on the girl's side even more emphatically after I realize that the irksome activist IS Henley.

Nothin' smarmy about Murphy Brown!

And this doesn't help:
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Story gets sadder for you, Hollis:
http://media.avclub.com/ima…

Barry has never had much personality.

Orlando dull? For shame. S/he is incredibly annoying.

It does get too dense with that, yes, but the first two volumes (where he paces himself right) are aces.

And, as usual, All-Star Superman did this marvelously. The first Supes movie's ending, ridiculous as it was, got this notion right too: he achieves the impossible and saves the day (NOTE: not just kicking ass, it's about saving lives) by seeing incredible possibilities that other people just don't because they're not…

A world with Superman & his peers doesn't need bleak semi-heroes like the Authority, so that story didn't really work, no. Also, it underlined that that world isn't much like ours. But who wants any other kind of Superman comic? "I'm against killing, and you're sure doing a lot of it, but hey, takes all kinds," says…

The Trek series since TNG have all struggled with casting in my view; they often ended up with characters who just weren't compelling enough to be the focus of an episode. Voyager was probably the worst for this: Janeway, Paris, Harry Kim, Chakotay … that's a whole lot of who gives a crap. Trek writers responded on…

They never did make much use of Michael K. Williams or, more disappointingly, John Goodman. The show never was perfectly smooth, just funny and thoroughly sincere.

They're all fiction, Monty, it's just that he learned to tout them as 'true stories' to lower the bar.

They're all fiction, Monty, it's just that he learned to tout them as 'true stories' to lower the bar.

For cheating them, at that.

For cheating them, at that.

Sadly, the more comfortable Michael Stipe got with expressing himself (even by just enunciating), the less REM were worth listening to. It's kind of a coincidence, but still.