I wondered how much of a coincidence that was - and if someone might be referencing Alan Moore's latest volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in which Emma Peel was the current head of MI6 . . .

I kept thinking he was playing "What if Austin Scarlett was a terrorist mastermind?" 

I kept thinking he was playing "What if Austin Scarlett was a terrorist mastermind?" 

Don't worry about continuity. Just assume that each one is a separate interpretation of the same idea.  Unless you really want to try to explain the dueling laser space shuttles from Moonraker.

Don't worry about continuity. Just assume that each one is a separate interpretation of the same idea.  Unless you really want to try to explain the dueling laser space shuttles from Moonraker.

What if Johnny Cash shot Chris Brown in Reno just to watch him die?

What if Johnny Cash shot Chris Brown in Reno just to watch him die?

Come on guy, you just don't have a "modern sense of humor."

Come on guy, you just don't have a "modern sense of humor."

@avclub-1b1f9a3e639ecc53f335314fc9d8403b:disqus That's a really good point. The "older = better" thing is not necessarily a rose-colored glasses thing, but more because collectively we tend to remember the best of the past while the crap slides into obscurity. Thus people end up comparing the highlights of 1000 years…

Typical: a humanities prof who can't do math.

Jermiroquai

Jermiroquai

Han doesn't have to fly, he's going to survive a direct hit from a Death Star by hiding inside a space-fridge.

Han doesn't have to fly, he's going to survive a direct hit from a Death Star by hiding inside a space-fridge.

I really liked the way Gaiman wrote Constantine in Books of Magic, I always wished he'd done more.

I really liked the way Gaiman wrote Constantine in Books of Magic, I always wished he'd done more.

Well he will look like a Sting, but now it's going to be the wrestler Sting.

Well he will look like a Sting, but now it's going to be the wrestler Sting.

I don't mind antiheroes, I just don't like it when they touch heroes and annihilate each other.