That's a popular misconception. Slang is allowed in Scrabble.

Wherever you start with Hellblazer (I think starting at the start is fine), you should also read Moore's run on Swamp Thing, where Constantine first appeared, because it's fucking great.

Disappointingly, Amazon failed to order a pilot for Kal Penn's 'The High Man In White Castle'.

Exactly. There's an adjective form of 'cliché', and it's not 'cliché'.

Fuck this guy for using cliché as an adjective.

Yeah, what the hell? As long as most people just think of R Kelly as a dude who pissed on a teenager once, any article about him should start with a mandatory THIS MAN HAS BEEN RAPING CHILDREN FOR YEARS disclaimer.

The impossible dilemma there was 'how do we get the armed hero, who we've already established is basically a ninja, into a fist fight with the bad guy?'. Rust having a vision at that exact moment is an implausible event that gets the writer out of a corner. It's cheap plotting. Up till that point, the story had played…

I don't think 'has visions at the most narratively convenient moment' really counts as a character trait.

Yeah - it was a deus ex machina to explain how the gun-toting hero ends up in a fist fight with the bad guy. Which is just a really cheap way of manufacturing a dramatic finale. And compares poorly with the Seven-ish scene where they find Ledoux. How much would Seven have sucked if, instead of having an original…

That felt like a bit of a cheat though. The 'is it supernatural or not' thing seemed more organic in the earlier episodes, but by the end it looked like they were lazily injecting supernatural creepiness into a regular cop show by occasionally having some crazy person rant about Carcosa, or giving Rust another drug…

Leaving it unsolved might have worked, actually. Like a Zodiac sort of thing. But otherwise I'd rather have seen it resolved with something other than a less-compelling retread of the confrontation with Ledoux. I mean, that was mostly lifted from Seven, but at least it wasn't as generic an ending as having the heroes…

Everything after them was pretty redundant, too. Like they had 3 episodes to fill so they just repeated the "Marty and Rust do some massively illegal detecting and it leads them to a creepy guy in the woods" story. But with worse execution.