I don't know why people keep bringing up Secret Wars as a positive thing.  That whole event was a terrible toy advertisement that they got people to pay money for.

@avclub-a3e80e62340f85e584f072b212415d32:disqus  I think the movie-verse is already ready for Taskmaster.  After all, Loki managed to assemble a generic group of people who were pissed off at SHIELD and the Avengers for various reasons.  I'll bet those people could benefit from some villain training.

I'm not sure I'd agree that it's the only one they should film, since I feel like Born Again doesn't really work unless Daredevil is already an established character, so I think there'd have to be at least one movie before that.  In other words, Daredevil can't be born again until he gets born the first time.

Nah, I'm planning to watch the shit out of the next Amazing Spider-Man because I don't want to see Spider-Man join the Avengers in the movie-verse.  Also because the first one was pretty decent, in that it did a way better job with the two main characters than the previous Spider-Man series ever did.

For what it's worth, I would read that.

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus One thing that nearly all science fiction universes seem to agree on is that aliens love apostrophes way more than we do.  Just ask D'Argo or G'Kar from B5.

I'm very happy that we still have Chiana around, but it might have been interesting to see how differently things would have played out if the failure of Crichton's hare-brained plan had led to his temporary ally actually getting killed instead of just grazed a bit.

I was getting some definite Weyoun vibes from Salis, which can only be described as a good thing.  It makes a lot of sense since both of them are sort of programmed to be perfectly loyal in a way that makes them look down on anyone without that programming.

After watching the first episode of Lexx and finding it a lot of fun, I would definitely be interested in seeing a discussion of Lexx that's more sustained than these "Let's talk about Lexx" threads that come up every week or so on the Farscape reviews. A TV Club 10 or some sort of side-note to the Farscape reviews…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus The idea that killing Salis makes Chiana untrustworthy would work better if Salis didn't seem so thoroughly deserving of death at the hands of either of his prisoners.  If anything, I think that killing Salis would have made Durka seem more sympathetic, since it would be…

Just judging by the Stray Observations, it sounds like you could make a pretty awesome gimmick account out of quotes from this show.  I'm pretty sure there's a line for every possible situation in there.

My favorite moment of the episode is when the second bar fight breaks out towards the end someone in the background immediately jumps up and starts swinging on a light fixture for no apparent reason.  I like to think that that person had been sitting there the entire evening getting increasingly drunk while…

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I'm really not convinced by the claim that Hannibal's "not being telegraphed as a villain."  In addition to the phone call in the first episode, you've also got the immediate cut from "Whoever killed her took her lungs" to Hannibal messing with a pair of lungs.  Right from the start there doesn't seem to be too much…

If this movie is anywhere near as good as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, then it should be the best Marvel movie thus far.

Followed by Weird Science 3: Tokyo Drift, Weird and Science, and Weird Five.

The promise of exciting stuff going on over there caused me to finally join the group.  I just created a Google+ account…slowly….

I think the scene where the Voyager crew escape from the Kazon by shooting holes in their water containers and then we see Neelix sitting in a bathtub talking about how awesome it is to have unlimited amounts of potable water was when I realized that I found the show's villains more sympathetic than the heroes.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus  It's my understanding that the term "slash fic" comes from there being so much Kirk/Spock in the fan fiction community that it got abbreviated to just being called "slash" and that the term eventually expanded to all male on male pairings.

I have vague memories of some sort of anti-Federation back-to-nature types in an earlier episode who locked Sisko in a metal box in the sun for refusing to take off his Starfleet uniform.  I don't remember enough about it to figure out what episode it was, but I remember the Essentialists reminding me of those guys. …