I agree that it was probably making things harder than it had to be for themselves - adapting the existing character+world to a new medium AND trying to develop/launch a new, significant character into that world is basically two big places to fail instead of one. Plus, there's the danger of turning it into the only…

Balding Bryce Dallas Howard would look sort of like a buxom Devin Townsend circa 1997, and ummm…. I'll be in my bunk, figuring some things out.

I guess I haven't been paying attention, but I didn't until just now realize that Uematsu wasn't doing the scores anymore. Shimamura's great, but man I thought Uematsu:Final Fantasy::John Williams:Star Wars

Brainstorming time: Everybody in together now to come up with a new one.

It would be Seth Putnam's favorite band

Holy shit yes. ASS COBRA

I think it's sort of a winner's curse thing - a proposal to use primarily existing facilities and local landscape isn't sexy, and if there's even one bidder willing to build new, that's who the IOC will pick, however unnecessary and wasteful that may be. IIRC one recent finalist did propose to reuse old and existing…

Not for nothing but isn't Jason Momoa Samoan or something?

Jason Momoa and Danny DeVito in: Twin Crows

Yup. And while that was before my time, I absolutely remember when Voyager was in development, and having a female Captain was (rightly) treated as A Big Deal by the surrounding coverage. Star Trek is a vision of the future, but it's never been shy about its connection to the present.

I thought DS9 managed to thread the needle between episodic and serial storytelling very well, and I really hope Fuller's using that as a main reference point for this.

Posted below, but I really love the Shaggs. Sincerely and unironically. Never heard of Adkins before but he sounds great, I'm gonna go check that out right now.

Definitely. I really enjoy Philosophy of the World and I've been listening to it regularly for years. And I got into it only having heard the music and its reputation for being "the worst album of all time," without knowing the (really quite sad) backstory. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I really try not to…

Man of Steel 2: Man Harder

And some horrible autoplaying Gregorian chant that crashes your browser.

Thing is, even before this superhero movie boom, there were still lots of superhero movies being made, and they were called superhero movies.

I've thought a lot about that. I wonder if Jackson et al worried that if they killed the dragon at the end of the second they'd lose the audience for the third, since the story as laid out in the beginning seemed to be concluded: they killed the dragon and got the treasure. I myself was pretty surprised at how more…

Hi, David

Sure, like you don't have an agenda, Arby's.

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