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The Prisoner
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You go up to the roof and move the antenna, and I'll yell up to you.

Like Rudy "America's Mayor" Giuliani.

Remember the TV Hulk? I was a little kid, but thought it was dumb as hell to change the name from Bruce Banner to Robert Banner. I mean, a Mr. Universe contestant slathered with green makeup and a dime store wig, and they thought alliteration would throw the kids off? Later the comics made it worse by renaming

I always thought Reed Richards and Susan Storm were very cool names.

Crime of any sort will find a way to fill the vacuum of needs not being met.

Michael Corleone.

Exactly. Loving D'Onofrio's interpretation. He must be so glad for a role like this after those years of TV procedurals.

I actually take a cue from the wardrobe - she in white, he in black. Opposites attract. They are both ultra-cultured individuals with strong opinions about everything. They're bored with all other human interactions, and they know this when electricity hits the moment they meet. So the giant head chopper has a

Why all the hate for Miller? Other than Robocop 2, if not for him, this would be one long freakin' blank digital page! (as well as all those Nolan/Batman pages)

God, back in the day, dating, I would have been grateful for a date who didn't play stupid games and for whom sex/intimacy/passion wasn't put too high on the pedestal to actually reach. Spoiler - when I finally met her, we got married!

He's into Fisking. (I'll follow you out)

nailed it. she did it because she can, and because she instantly sends a message that they're on equal footing, and she does what she wants. Deep down she must know that is like catnip for Fisk!

There is some of that I noticed as well.

I can never hear that line, ever, without thinking of Ash and all the eyerolls on the Nostromo!! Great call - I thought the same.

Thanks for the Ascot catch. I totally missed it and it's hilarious!

Well stated. To expand on that, I have lived in NYC since 1983, and have seen a lot of change. While cities always change and morph, NYC is a special case. From 3,000 miles away, as a kid I saw the New York Post headline that killed Ford's presidential campaign, "Ford Says New York Drop Dead!" In 1979, New York

I didn't think Karen asking Foggy to touch her face was comical. I thought it was naive of Foggy to think Karen wasn't instead imagining he was Matt, though. Also, Karen's a little bit of a tease in this show, yes? She manipulates the femme fatale image at times, and keeps a lot of her truths close to the vest.

That isn't sex. That was a woman changing clothes in front of a blind man.

Good point. This Daredevil is definitely more on the "pulp" side of tradition, and it would be more authentic to sex it up a little. Not that I want to see D'Onofrio humping that gorgeous Vanessa! But I don't think the show suffers for it. The Gotham City level violence does make sense though. God, more sex in

Miller started it all. Took the Kingpin in a new direction. It was open territory, since other writers, for at least a decade before, just took him as "I never knew anything so big could move so fast/be so stront" and left it at that. Miller saw the opening to invent an operatic backstory, and ran with it.