Illusions, Ta-er al-Asfer. Tricks are something a whore does for money.

They did give a reason: Wally was feeling a little inferior having another Flash around, and wanted to prove he could handle the Rival on his own.

We see the planet blow up, but we don't actually see any of the people on the planet. And, at any rate, unless you go into Expanded Universe stuff, there's no way of telling what Alderaan's population was.

See, I don't like that attitude, because it assumes the only places a time traveler might want to go are Europe or post-Colombian North America. I'm sure if they went somewhere in Medieval Africa, the situation would be reversed, and if they went to Edo era Japan, they'd all be foreign devils.

Hulu had the recent seasons and the first five seasons, but anything from the eighties through the early 2000's? Nope.

When I first got Netflix, they had all of the old Saturday Night Live episodes (minus the musical numbers and maybe one or two sketches). That was FANTASTIC. Now, as far as I can tell, there's no legal way of watching most of that content short of someone's old VHS tapes.

That's the Production Code for you. It didn't just limit sex, violence, and swearing, but required all movies to end with all criminals defeated (or at least forsaking their nefarious ways). It can actually get kinda funny how contrived some old movie endings were as a result.

No, nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole and lived to say it twice.

The thinking was probably "Hey, a dom-com version of Perfect Strangers! Neat!"

Michael: "Don't worry about it."

Chidi seems to approach ethics from a standpoint of logic, trying to figure out a consistent, objective formula for what defines right and wrong. The idea that entities far more intelligent than him have worked out and perfected that formula would probably be very comforting.

My theory is that the Good Place and the Bad Place are actually exactly the same, the only difference is the people there. We've seen that just one person doing something bad can cause massive disasters, so if you have a neighborhood with hundreds of frequently selfish people, there will garbage rains or giant ladybug…

Well, that, and a lot of the people who say Trump is honest really mean, "He actually SAYS the racist stuff the rest of us are just thinking! We ARE all thinking this racist stuff, right?"

I actually like that Arrow has always been pretty open about the fact that Oliver is a very flawed person and, as a consequence of those flaws, often has very poor judgement.

My one problem with the 50's version is that they establish that the aliens aren't actually taking over people's bodies, but replacing them with exact replicas grown in pods . . . then in the climax, they completely contradict that and have someone become flat-out possessed by the aliens.

It's more that, when horror stories reach their third act, they often start to BECOME adventure stories in order to reach a traditional climactic finish that wraps everything up (barring a the-monster's-not-really-dead stinger at the very end). Horror stories that keep the heroes helpless in the face their horrific…

I do think that sort of helplessness is a key part of what makes a horror story a horror story. When your protagonist is able to fight back in an effective way, the story transitions more into the adventure genre.

Different thread.

For me, Gollum is the main draw of the Lord of the Rings movies, with some battle scenes here and there as filler.

I actually like Billy Wilder's version of The Front Page better than His Girl Friday. Matthau as Walter Burns is a delight, and I like how it really commits to the idea of journalism as the most disreputable profession in the world.