To me, the music sounded a lot like Chris Franke's score for Babylon 5.

There's a decent movie in there, but large chunks of story were hacked out in editing. You're probably better off watching the Good Bad Flicks episode about it instead: https://www.youtube.com/wat….

No, this is the series where the screwed up son of a mortician who was probably going to become a serial killer finds a useful outlet for his proclivities.

That's not really a hypothetical. There are plenty of authors who specialize in tie-in novels. They're not generally highly regarded.

Steven Brust, a successful author, wrote an unofficial Firefly novel (available here: http://dreamcafe.com/downlo…. Where does that fall in the respect level? Fairly high in my mind, so maybe it's the amateur aspect that is the issue.

Over time, Marvel consolidated their time traveling villains so that Kang, Immortus, and Rama Tut are all the same guy. Rama Tut premiered first in FF, so therefore they're all FF property.

In John Rogers' blog posts about show-running Leverage, he talked about how the show aired out of order, but he had enough warning to shuffle around B-plot footage to keep character development fairly linear. That's substantially more easily done with a procedural show than a sitcom, though.

Doom, at least a while back, had professional respect and working relationships with other notable Marvel rulers: Namor, T'Challa, & Black Bolt. It was always interesting to see that side of how things worked on Marvel Earth before Bendis turned most of them into a secret cabal in his Illuminati.

Judging from everything I've heard, the source material seems to be the broad plot outline of early issues of Ultimate FF, and the dour tone and body horror of Joe Casey's obscure 2006 origin re-envisioning Fantastic Four: First Family. Reading that stuff probably wouldn't have helped.

What happened with the Doctor Who recaps is that he came up with a bizarre unlikely philosophical interpretation of the first reboot season that coincidentally predicted its bizarre unlikely ending. This gave him the confidence to fly completely off the rails in overinterpreting the second season and beyond.

And he bought AIM which opens a lot of new story possibilities, so that's a good sign for the character's future.

There's no easy road to gainful employment in astrophysics (speaking as someone who tried). After getting the PhD, you're stuck in endless low-paid, short-term post-doc positions waiting for a faculty position to open up and then fighting with all the other hungry young researchers for that spot.

History Channel sent out a memo to an independent documentary production company I was working at back in 2000 saying that we should stop trying so hard to get the best experts on whatever topic we were working on. If we could find a younger, more attractive, sort-of-expert and then have them study up a bit, that…

The costume was a pet zook, named after Zook, J'onn's Silver Age equivalent of Mr. Mxyzptlk (which I just spelled correctly from memory using the phonetic mnemonic from the Superman cartoon).

Just as likely they were sharing a spliff.

The early issues, written by Louise Simonson are weak. She was trying to be socially relevant, which didn't work either here or in here Power Pack run. But the later issues by Priest, with art by Cowan, are really well done and back off of the poorly done grittiness.

Additionally, J'onn and Kara both had lives on their home planets before losing everything and coming to Earth. That's a shared experience not many can relate to. It's a connection that hasn't been explored in the comics (so far as I've seen), but it makes a lot of sense to put them in a story together.

A coworker of mine was cast on The Bachelorette. During the first episode get-to-know-you party he was caught on hidden camera hitting of a waitress to the Bachelorette's visible revulsion. He was immediately cut.

It happened in the early 80's. In the 70's, Johnny Carson's jokes about it bombed and he would muse "too soon". In '83, Joe Piscopo's SNL skit worked.

Fair point. In retrospect, I was more looking forward to what they would do with the same-sex dances than happy with what they actually did. We've got a couple weeks for another imbalance to develop. Could still get interesting.