I like Superman… but you're implying we're brave for admitting it? What?There's actually some pretty good arguments to be made on the other side of that debate, I'll admit that. Because most portrayals of the guy recently have not been thrilling in the slightest.

Barry Allen's main feature in the comics was first "tells you shaky 'science' 'facts' all the time" and then "Mark Waid nostalgia horse".

In some ways Kara looks up to Clark as a role model, but in other ways she’s still his older cousin who can tell him stories about what it was like on Krypton.

I think both of those are perhaps a close second to Silent Hill 2, which spends its first few minutes feeding you a steady stream of misinformation and shock that won't be revisited in detail until the last third of the game but serves as the foundation for one of the few stories that many people consider superior to H…

Britney Spears is a decent mid-range alto who popularized vocal fry in a way that's impacted pop right up to the present day. If you know how to sing, you know she's a fine singer, no earth-shaking talent to be sure but plenty talented enough for her career path. If you don't know how to sing, stick to shock-effect…

(…technically true, since the movies only mention Uruk-hai as specific creations of Saruman and it looks like they all die in the second movie.)

I don't get that attitude at all. Every last iteration of "Star Trek" since the first series in the 1960s has given one or more of its crew members a bizarrely specific fascination with the 19th/20th/21st centuries to please the audience, as though every third person in the United States today had an oddly…

They don't make a big deal out of it, but no one at all dies in that "Sabotage" scene. They're all robots except Krall (this is the "drone work force" Krall/Edison references in the diary they find). There are a couple other of Edison's crew members who survived their original ordeal thanks to the technology on the…

The "drone work force" that Edison/Krall references in the video diary they find are the masked humanoids you see elsewhere in the movie; it's part of the mystery that what appears to be a planet full of hostile aliens is really only an army of automated, non-intelligent robots directed by a total of three former…

Correct. It's not emphasized in the movie, but the only living people in Krall's gang are himself and the two crew members from his old ship, all of whom kept themselves alive using the life-draining technology on the planet. All the rest of his gang are robots.

It's actually one of the sharper points of "Ender's Game", the book, that pop cultural representations of fictional massacres are so squeaky clean that if they were surreptitiously used to represent the real thing, no one would bat an eye at wiping out an entire race of people and watching themselves do it.

He's slightly pissed because his series has been successfully marketed as a family-friendly science fiction epic, and has even been called things like a new "Star Wars" for the current generation of kids, and as someone who worked on Troma films, Dawn of the Dead and Slither, Gunn's very aware of how public perception…

Right - in general, "analysis" or "consulting" before "firm" means one of two things:

And it's great evidence why writers need to dissuade the idea of "canon" that, according to Star Wars "canon", every last one of those inhabitants has likely not only been named but equipped with a unique spaceship, a goofy robot sidekick and a series of novels that establishes them as absolutely crucial to the…

They like it down there! They're orcs! They're just sending them home!

Ah, a "study" from the illustrious peer-reviewed journal "financial analysis firm Go Compare".

Marc Laidlaw's best recommendation is that he considers the fan concepts of "canon" vs. "non-canon" to be bizarre and stupid and refuses to engage in arguments about them. Here's a good example: http://www.valvetime.net/th…

Case re-opened: if that's what the commenter said, you wouldn't have to completely re-write what they said to dismiss them.

"Hot take" is quickly becoming the top way to admit you can't address a point that's been raised.

To me, this is like the push to get official acceptance in the U.S. military: I understand and support the principle of the thing, and thus I have to support it in practice, but as a practical matter, I don't have a clue why you'd want to encourage LGBT people into an arena of such complete bullshit. I read superhero…