Counterpoint: The Original Peaches are national treasures, and not in the Cagean sense.

Why start now? [hugs Lorne Michaels]

I like that you throw out "Kubiak" and not only are you sure that everyone will understand, but you're correct about it.

FAILED FIR… oh yeah, I set myself up there.
All I can do is swear that the content and placement are coincidental, and fall back on my decade-long record of not caring about firsties. But I'll grant you that this seems pretty suspicious under the circumstances.

This happened to be the first episode of ER I ever saw, and obviously I was pretty blown away. I got the unrealistic idea that every episode was going to be a gut-churning, pulse-pounding tour-de-force like this one, but no. great show anyway, of course.

It's totally possible! What a lot of people don't realize is that a couple of the segments are harmless while they're not moving or transforming. You can walk right through them. You still have to memorize the whole thing, but that's what makes it doable. I've done it a hundred times, and I'm only a so-so gamer.

I liked playing 9 but I couldn't beat it. Made it to the final Wily form a bunch of times and everything. So you'd say 10 is less brutally hard? Maybe I'll give it a shot.

I really liked MM9, but it's one of the only games I ever had to walk away from unfulfilled — I just couldn't imagine getting all the way back to Wily's final form and then losing all my lives one more time. You really need to manage you various weapon energies perfectly during the "re-fight all the bosses" section to…

The fact that they reversed the jump and shoot buttons on the Xbox Mega-Man collection remains one of the great existential black holes of my life.
"Holy crap, I can't believe this exists! [buys immediately]
[starts playing]
"What… what the… no. No no no. No no no no no. NOOOO!!"

Aw, man, that one's still my favorite. All of those enemy patterns and jump/shoot timings will be burned into my brain for the rest of my life.

They HAVE to keep him alive — he hasn't got that many guys.

Sweeney Todd is my favorite musical, with the Len Cariou version being my personal gateway. And speaking of Sondheim, I watched West Side Story again last week, and that's damn great as well.

It occurred to me at some point that Firefly was also primarily set on a "plane" with all of the characters squooshed together, but that show managed to make that environment cozy and inviting somehow.
The plane on MAoS feels more like a waiting room. With no magazines.

FRINGE is exactly the model they should be following. That show absolutely nailed the exact tone and structure they're going for on MAoS, and it didn't even have the opportunity to one day feature The Purple Man or Beta Ray Bill as a guest character.

This is completely true — If the show found a way to actually be about the freaks and rejects nestled within S.H.I.E.L.D. who manage to distinguish themselves by banding together and getting shit done, that would be awesome.
Instead, it's like a shy nerd made a show about a bunch of confident professionals, but they…

I'm holding out for Captain Hikaru Sulu, Agent of "Shields. SHIELDS!!"

Hey, who has the rights to Alpha Flight? Probably Fox, given that they premiered in X-Men. That's too bad, unless Fox gets off its duff and makes an Alpha Flight movie.

Knightfall happened during a total blackout in my personal comics history (i.e., I began to have access to boobs), and I remember picking up an issue of Batman in a record store and seeing "Batman" in his gigantic blue-and-yellow armor and thinking, "what the fuck am I looking at."
Marvel and DC both made it very easy…

With a very faithful costume, hopefully.

"Your honor, I move that my client's enormous extending stilts should be deemed inadmissable as evidence."