The gender imbalance up to last week was the real impact of the Stage vs. Street conceit and I was sad to see it go. It was making the choreographers stretch a little and giving us some more interesting stories than the usual easy variations on romance.

It was meant as a parody and it's actually pretty fun. And with Art Adams penciling, it looks great.

There's been a couple: neither particularly notable or good. And adult Franklin Richards coming from the future was the centerpiece of Years of Future Past in the 1990 FF and X-Men Annuals. That's probably the best of the three.

He plays a charming fuck-up pretty well in Ingenious. He's got range he hasn't been using lately.

And here's the season winning performance that makes the whole thing seem like a pretty good idea: https://www.youtube.com/wat….

That scene was all about dialing back the seriousness. Flash's rogues gallery has always been lower-key, more frienemy-y, less murdery than other heroes. This scene made that possible by building the relationship between the two and putting their no-mayhem/no-colider-Guantanamo gentleman's agreement in place.

That was a madbomb: http://marvel.wikia.com/Mad…, a Kirby creation from his mid-70's return to the Captain America book.

Jesse Martin's opinion on the topic:

And Strange Luck too.

He should have sous-vided those suckers overnight. That's how Michelle Bernstein cooked whole loaves of foie for a dinner I attended a few years back.

The number of ads varies a lot depending on what network the show's from, what device you're watching on, age of the program and probably demographics Hulu's gathered on your viewing habits. I get only two or three short ads per hour when watching most shows on my Tivo so Hulu's a good deal for me.

I'm waiting until the 16th when the Blu Ray box set comes out.

James Gunn says he wants to do it.

Captain America #322 is an interesting issue. No really good background characters to use; Cap is fighting Flag Smasher and Ultimatum with the help of SHIELD. A couple of SHIELD agents get named, but they're nobody in particular.

In story, it's because Ursa Major defines himself as Russian first and a mutant second so he sticks with the Winter Guard instead of joining the X-Men.

Nice job by the promo department: Get excited, it's going to be a tie!

There were plenty of sci-fi angles in a Bajor transformed into a 1001 Arabian Nights world of wonders by the powers of various orbs scattered around the landscape. We saw hints of that in The Storyteller from the first season, but then the Dominion and the Klingons and all that happened so no time for sightseeing.

ReGenesis is actually quite good just-beyond-reality bio-medical science fiction until it goes off the rails in its last season. Some quite smart writing and the Canadian setting makes the gang of brilliant misfits characters a bit more plausible than putting them in the bureaucracy of the CDC.

I think Unalaq is still our big bad. His plan of opening the portals is clearly related to the immanent harmonic convergence.

Speaking of the generic handsome guy DA, remember what the hoods called him when they broke in? That was one seriously deep cut DC character reference: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mr….