I find Routh/Palmer goofy enough that I'll watch him, but yeah, Firestorm is kind of a dud in both versions.

Captain Hammer is more Captain Wrecking Ball these days.

I own that book. Can confirm Adams wrote that.

19Q4 (the only novel of his I've read) worked for me in terms of faint fantasy logic, but Library was like one of those dreams you wake up from and wonder what you ate last night to cause that.

Wait, you're getting evicted by your parents?

IK's got sausage jokes.

God, a few years ago I read just about every entry on the site and then forgot about it. I feel like an amnesiac pirate discovering his treasure trove, reading through the front page of the blog.

Aces!

This is a sentence I never expected to read.

Re: Library:

I'm kinda curious about New Who's Doctor's relationship with Gallifrey. 11 seemed gung-ho about saving them, to be sure, but 10 was willing to drop them back into whatever time hole they crawled out of.

I can understand some plot frustrations, but clearly this muppet wasn't paying attention if he missed the world-building.

My mom was a librarian (until taking her retirement from the city a year ago) and new management was increasingly phasing out trained librarians in favor of cheaper staff with customer service experience.

I think there's some interesting concepts, but realistically, I don't believe effects technology is really reaching the point that they can depict Superman till now. I think a Tim Burton-esque take on Brainiac could be really good, though.

I'd say they were making up stories, but Peters actually admitted to wrestling the staff and his apex predator fetish, so now I'm just perplexed at how that guy had a career.

She's been running a refugee camp for aliens for a century, not to mention running into other aliens over the years. If anyone born on Earth knows about aliens, it's her.

I thought it shared some DNA with Listen, if nothing else.

Kill the Moon is the Principal and the Pauper of Doctor Who. The Moon got Tamzarian'ed.

Sweet Christmas!

And the Cult of Skaro was unorthodox to begin with, anyway.