So basically, if you can't afford custom armor/costume, you should go home and leave the vigilantism to the billionaire playboys.

Bale-voice: I'M NOT WEARING HOCKEY PANTS!

"But you are a scientist, dude, and the idea of altering the timeline for selfish reasons, which would cause repercussions—maybe catastrophic ones—that you couldn't possibly foresee is insanity itself."
I'm not sure it's that clear cut. After all, the repercussions could also be anti-catastrophic! We make choices every…

Because cold beer, you unamerican dolt!

There's actually a way to justify both the possibility of stopping Flynn, and the rush to do so. If your time machine instead has a component that remains in the present, and another component (capsule) that is displaced to the past, you can wave your hands and say that time moves in lockstep at both ends. While they…

Well, yeah. If I was a scientist, and someone called me irresponsible, you can bet I'd get mad!

Yep, old people prefer theistic attractiveness, or at most agnostic attractivenes.

He flipped the striker on the hammer. That gun is modeled after a real-world family of firearms, the LeMat revolver*. It has a single shotgun barrel at the axis of the 9-round cylinder, which would be loaded with buckshot. You flip a lever on the hammer to select which barrel fires.

That's an audacious statement. You really mean to tell me he's better than Balloonman?

I think someone put it that way in the comments on the JJ reviews (though of course I'm too lazy to go looking). But yeah, it's really great — both the consistency of fighting style and what it says about the character.

Is there some alternative version of Gotham you can imagine that wouldn't be a hell of a lot more interesting?

There's two issues here — the first is, of course, that neither the overall cost of making TV shows, nor the advertising revenue per viewer per show remain constant. If the cost to make an average show goes down, while advertising revenue per viewer goes up, there's a lower minimum threshold of viewers before someone…

Terra Bloody Nova! How could I have forgetten it? (No, seriously, I want to know how so I can forget it again, please.)

It's only fair to point out that a lot of shows have "'just okay', very average" pilots. Sure, you say, most of them follow that up with a long string of average or worse episodes, but sometimes they actually learn and improve!

If you take the one time-travel episode from every season of Supernatural, you've practically got a one-season time-travel show right there.

CUT MY SUB INTO PIECES
THIS IS MY LAST RESORT

Sonmanto

She's merely a construct of an Eleanor. She feels no pain or joy or love.

The internet says the global rate is 151,600 deaths per day. That means if about 1 in 500 make the cut, you'd get one neighborhood per day. (Adjust up or down according to your own idea of the good place's selectivity.)

It's odd that you specify "four-wheeled" — would it be less lame if he drove a Reliant Robin?