I don't know if this is quite an accurate characterization.

It is confusing - in the review, at any rate - that the two lead actors have last names for first names. "Ralph? I thought his name was Jason. And who's this Maeve person now?"

Format: Hour-long satanic police procedural

I have a shelf of movies all based on this Kid Comes of Age and Also There Is Fantastical Shit But Not the Kind that Sucks genre. It's got Labyrinth, a bunch of Miyazaki stuff, Neverending Story, Iron Giant (okay, maybe a slant rhyme, but that's just a good movie), and most recently Inside Out, along with some others.…

Yeah, even as a kid I was pretty disappointed by them. Now Terry PRATCHETT elves, those are some good elves.

Secret Wars was good. Someday it'll even end!

He just can't abide genocide.

You mention that it would have been nice to see a little more nuance from Ruby and Sapphire pre-Garnet, but keep in mind they were Homeworld Gems. They existed mostly to do a job; I suspect it wasn't until they became Garnet that they embraced being more than what they were created for.

Y'know, I didn't even register it was Joe Kelley (bad fan!), but with that knowledge, everything falls into place. He gets Spidey right too.

You're welcome! It's surprisingly fun.

Picked up Spider-man and Deadpool #1, not expecting a whole lot. It turns out to be a lot of fun. Rather than paint the characters as similar smartasses (though they are in a lot of ways), it keeps with the line that Spidey can't stand Deadpool on a fundamental level - particularly their views on death. It's even got…

And then they run into Matt Dillon running away from Wayward Pines.

Go away! Teen-baitin'!

It is, all the time, they just don't make shows about it.

There's this guy Joseph Campbell you should check out.

Exactly. Visually, it's a suit of chainmail away from Pretty Little Liars.

I'd like to have seen something like where, at the end of the episode, they're at the Wing Hove and riding along the beach and OH MY GOD THE STATUE OF LIBERTY!!!

It would be weird to come to Shannara via that route. Kinda like watching the Star Wars prequels first.

Brooks has said it was always his intention (whether that's true, I can't say - I find it hard to believe he was thinking that far ahead while biting LotR in Sword of Shannara*). One thing I like about this is that they just show it; in a book, you can just choose not to mention something like that, but it stands to…

He doesn't dance, if that's an influence at all.