The mix of fiction and reality is a really interesting aspect to pro wrestling. On one hand it's all fake and scripted and whatnot, but behind every fake character there's a real performer who is directly affected by the outcomes of these scripted events. It's kind of fascinating to see the story of a scrappy…

Strangely, I thought pro wrestling was super boring as a kid, but I recently took an interest in it largely because I think that stage fighting is really interesting. The idea of people choreographing a fight scene on the fly in front of a live audience makes the clunkiness that I couldn't look past as a kid a lot…

Looks like this pun thread came to a halt fairly quickly. I guess we all knew X-Men title puns wouldn't go very far.

Even though it's darker in tone, I think that "Chill of the Night!" (the ! is important) is still much more in tone with TB&TB than TAS. Silver Age goofiness like the wager between Spectre and Phantom Stranger and Batman teaming up with his bat-costumed father is important to the episode in ways that really wouldn't…

And then he becomes the HERO OF THE BEACH, which is actually less glamorous than it sounds. You mostly just clean up seagull poop.

Despite being born in the late 80s, I had a popple as a kid. It was basically a generic stuffed animal except that you could tuck it into a ball and throw it around, and was therefore more fun than your average teddy bear. I had noooo idea that there was any kind of franchise.

I'm referring to a much earlier story. Magneto was turned into a baby by a powerful mutant, and he decided to punish the All New, All Different X-Men for it even though they weren't around then. He imprisoned them with machines that gave them the motor control of infants while allowing them to remain aware of what…

I will pretty much always respond to this sort if comment by saying that Storm was totally wonderful during the Claremont/Paul Smith run. I haven't really found her interesting at any other time, but Claremont/Smith Storm is the best

I'm a big fan of the comic version, and James Marsden did quite well with the nothing he was given. The scene at the end of X2 where he's crying over Jean Grey by way of Patrick Stewart is pretty effective considering how weird that setup was and how underwritten that relationship was. I think that can be attributed…

I'm X-Statix to see a pun thread that's relevant to my interests.

Does that mean that Magneto's plot will be to force the X-Men to act like babies?

I was mostly thinking of Arrow. That show is generally pretty good these days, but those early episodes had some ridiculously stupid writing.

In some ways I feel like dumb writing is one of the easier problems to fix on a show. The writers can either grow into it or be replaced by better writers, and there's no need for retcons or awkward cast replacements. That's probably an overly optimistic view of it though.

Ha! I can play the edit game too.

I listened to a podcast that talked about the potential of the upcoming Apocalypse movie to reflect the 80s in the same way that the previous ones reflected their own decades. Apocalypse as an implacable and incredibly powerful opponent who neither Xavier nor Magneto can comprehend and who represents an existential…

I just wanted to point out that you (presumably) left out the word laugh, and it makes the last paragraph amusing, because I'm immature.

It looks like people can actually type it without getting inexplicably censored now. I'll probably refer to the movie as Kurt just to be on the safe side though.

I'm still of the opinion that Cass should be Nightwing, especially since that identity is currently vacant.

It would have been pretty funny if Sheridan and Delenn's kid had been a complete loser and the Drakh had just ended up with control over the intergalactic equivalent of Chet Haze.

The arrival of misogynistic assholes was so prompt and they behaved so stereotypically that it was hard to believe that they were actually sincere. I really didn't believe that they could be so oblivious to the irony until I saw how persistent they were.