It always annoyed me how little interest Star Trek tends to have in its own continuity.  I think I would have given just about anything for an episode of DS9 that showed the Dominion going around subduing a bunch of the random silly planets from TOS like the gangster planet, the Roman empire planet, and the Nazi…

There's been a giant hole in my heart for a series that follows up on Ostrander's Suicide Squad in a worthwhile way ever since Secret Six got cancelled.  I'll be watching this new team on the series with great interest.

They absolutely let that shine on TNG numerous times.

Reviewing Superman TAS after JLU makes very little sense taken on its own, but would be extremely awesome.

@WrongSirWrong:disqus That's pretty fair.  I think my perception of the book was severely affected by the intro in which OSC said something about how he'd met a bunch of gifted kids who told him about how much they related to the Wiggin kids, and OSC was talking about how awesome that was.  Since the intro invited me…

@WrongSirWrong:disqus  I wasn't referring to anything Ender or anyone else gets away with as much as the book's constant promotion of the idea of geniuses who are so much better than anyone else that they can dominate any field of society.  I was a pretty obnoxiously arrogant high schooler when I first read the book,…

They both have the same sort of "being gifted gives you the right to shit all over everything" themes, so it's pretty much the same thing either way.

I think it's impossible to go into Romeo and Juliet unspoiled, because the plot is summarized in the prologue to the play itself.  They pretty explicitly say "a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life," so the only surprises are in the how and why.  That kind of reinforces the point the article makes about certain…

I'd buy a monthly subscription to that dream series.  Especially if it involved Misfit.

Adventures of Superman looks completely wonderful. It seems like just about the best possible result of all the Orson Scott Card brouhaha.

Millar's had good starts to comics that ended up descending into extreme Millarness before, so I'm definitely going to be waiting for this one for a few more months/years until I hear more about where it's going.  Frank Quitely is definitely hard to resist though.

If you want, you can still assume that Killian's main motivation was that the extremis operation took away his genitals. http://www.colliercomics.co…

I feel like watching The Avengers wasn't really necessary either, since they make it pretty clear that Tony flew through a wormhole while fighting some aliens, which is all you need to know from that movie.  If anything, imagining the alien invasion that left Tony so traumatized would actually be more effective than…

My impression was that the heat wasn't necessarily intended to damage the suit, but instead made it impossible for a human to survive inside.  Presumably whatever mechanism the suit has for shielding its pilot would eventually fail if enough heat was applied over a concentrated area.  I think they were supposed to be…

I continue to be a major Agent Brand fan, so I would be extremely happy if SWORD showed up at some point.

It seems to be pretty well documented that the initial plan for DS9 was to be set on the surface of a colony planet, but they made it a space station instead because it would have been excessively expensive to shoot on location so frequently.  As a result, it seems as though DS9 arrived at the same basic concept by a…

I'm definitely with you on that one.  Seeing Londo solely in the moments where he speaks in public really emphasizes the fact that no matter how much we might relate to him or like him normally, he's really acting like a complete villain during all of this.

That's always been my theory.  Worker class is presumably the Morn caste.

@avclub-fd172dda9796767557675385e915cab4:disqus As much fun as the Narn fighting style is, I think it would have been even more fun if they'd been constantly yelling "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" during the fight.

That woman in the bar was actually Diane the whole time, but she was disguised by clever lighting.