I'm, um, getting worked up about this, like one does… you know! I'm feeling… *looks about warily* …an…ger?

Knights of the Old Republic 2, the "restored content" version, which I started years ago but never finished. I'm just now catching up to where I left off, on Onderon.

Wise Blood, and her collected letters, The Habit of Being. The latter will be slightly easier to tackle if you are or were a Roman Catholic.

I think "The Turn of the Screw" should be forced by the legal system into the hands of anyone who tries to cite "canon" about a "fictional universe". If you don't believe in the death of the author, you will be out there with a hunting rifle yourself by the end of it.

I grew up in the waning days of 2nd Edition and I think everything after that is a hell of a lot easier to learn and play than 2E ever was.

A Case of Conscience by James Blish.

The dinosaurs from Jurassic Park. (I mean the novel; the ones from the movie are nice, but Spielberg and company decided that their Dr. Frankenstein was too much like the guys in charge of the movie to get his just desserts, and so they reinvented him as a cuddly do-gooder.)

Yeah, Fallout 3 is Oblivion-era Bethesda. It's from before Skyrim, so it's more like one-and-a-half steps back into the past from Fallout 4 instead of one step, if that makes sense. I played it after Skyrim but well before Fallout 4 came out and was still a little stunned by what wasn't there. (I hadn't played a…

I thought Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman was a high point of a low movie. On that count, at least, Snyder and the writers were paying attention to movie audiences instead of comic book nerds when they looked back at the Donner films, to their credit.

Why did you find Jane interesting? I felt like they were using Natalie Portman to portray Christmas Jones and that decision perplexed me.

I remember the one from Avengers #1. I also remember The Wasp naming the group instead of reporting for duty in a coffin. Not saying movies have to be like the comics, but it's sometimes telling how they're not.

Batman's villains, Nolan's or otherwise, tend to threaten Gotham instead of threatening to wipe out the entire human species, at least in the stories involving Batman. It likely makes writing them easier in some ways and harder in others compared to writing world-spanning threats, but I feel that aspect probably makes…

How many characters on that show were given lie-detecting super-powers for at least a single scene? I feel like it was three or more.

I was gratified they kept Ultron as a nakedly emotion-driven A.I. with an Oedipus complex, a riff on Frankenstein's monster, instead of making him into something that seemed coldly rational. It's not always good to keep points from the comics but that trait still sets him apart from other evil robots in the relatively…

Yes, after these breathtaking special effects we'll all be nursing our inhalers in the theater bathroom for hours to come.

I think it's plain that the Netflix series were sold on the backs of the movies. Like, "Jessica Jones" may be quality, but there would not be a TV show based on "Alias" the comic book without years of massively popular Marvel movies behind it. Even if we theorize it might have eventually gathered an audience in their…

I feel that for a series to "capture" half a century of ordinary life per the headline, it would have to be at least half a century in duration. Otherwise, it's necessarily picking and choosing what to emphasize.

That would indeed be a ridiculous thing to say, and about as ridiculous as equating the ribbing he's getting in these comments with the same statement.

:-/

I'd disagree with the implication that our only two options are a bunch of woolly-headed entertainer types and a bunch of poli-sci majors, but I'd agree that quick entertainment is now what "counts" in political conversation. It's not pleasant to me.