I was "going out" with a girl, in the way kids do, whose little brother liked to watch that show on their huge wide-screen CRT television. I hadn't seen the TV screen yet and was just half-listening to the audio as we did homework and I thought, Man, that is one weird episode of "Star Trek". Well… that's my story…

I had to have seen at least a dozen episodes of this show but cannot remember a single episode of it. I remember the hero had a pistol that shot knockout gas. I bet he has that in the video game, I thought, but I never found out. Well… that's my story about "Darkwing Duck".

You are fucking weird, dude.

Come on, it's just a common household term, like "swashbuckling", "meet-cute" or "the cume"!

Dude, that makes you, like, ten times sadder.

*slaps wet towel against wall while breaking pencil* My ribs!

I reckon magic would fight technology by one of the two shooting out glowing light effects that would interact with other, different-colored light effects from the opposite source. The different colors would allow you to tell which one was magic and which one was technology. Also: textures.

You can really feel Ditko's hand in Strange and Kirby's in Stark. Ditko's dour imprint was left on all his characters—I know both Kirby and Lee have claimed Spider-Man's invention at certain points, but my gut tells me no one but Ditko could have sold Parker as the greedy, weepy, self-loathing worm he was in those…

I'm wondering how they're going to handle that in Black Panther since the studio can't seem to let something that weird alone entirely, and it's not exactly Spider-Man's origin in terms of pop cultural saturation (or straightforward sci-fi bullshit).

The majority of comments I see on here about "SJWs" involve conjuring up an imaginary phantom of one, like Aladdin's genie, to dutifully perform any number of unlikely hypothetical acts that prove nothing to no one.

The thing that is tedious is the phrase "SJW". You've assembled an army in your head out of people with various differing and conflicting interests and imagined they're arrayed against… you, I guess?

On one hand, I agree with you on the substance; it can't avoid seeming a little preposterous given the setting, and that's obvious enough that one of the writers got preemptively over-defensive over it in a minor P.R. snafu a little while back.

I find what you note about the unanchored effects to be a near-universal flaw in superhero movies with the exceptions of Nolan's Batman movies and Singer's X-Men movies (and their spiritual successor in Vaughn's X-Men prequel). Those pictures have flaws of their own but they remember that for an unfamiliar audience,…

I could believe it. The Chinese government only allows a certain number of foreign films to see wide release there. Its film bureau has gotten much more tolerant of a lot of elements they used to frown upon in foreign movies, even in what they allow to be produced and filmed in places like Hong Kong, but anything even…

Thanos comes from a period from the '70s through the '90s in comics when the abilities of major villains became conveniently ill-defined, ostensibly to ramp up the threat they posed to super-teams. Forms of attack don't work on Thanos because of Reasons, or he already had devious plans set against them for hundreds of…

The thing about Brainiac is that there have been good Brainiac stories, and they'd really only need a single one for a good movie… but Brainiac gets constantly reinvented because no one incarnation of him has proven interesting for very long, so he's been constantly turned into ersatz versions of other comic book…

True. It's one of the handicaps that producers don't seem to get about Superman vs. Batman as earners: Superman's villain roster starts strong but thins out real quick as you go south. To fill out a top ten list you'd probably have to include a King Kong rip-off and the guy who likely inspired the Great Gazoo. Muscly…

What I found weird is that they made Apocalypse solemn—I guess to differentiate him from the Darkseid/Thanos mold from which he was originally cast, Marvel having beaten Fox to the punch with the grinning Thanos scene from Guardians. But taking away Apocalypse's trademark sneer removed a lot of personality from a…

The Marvel movie villains referenced above, people like Ultron and Ronan. Apocalypse from the recent "X-Men" movie, too, now that I think about it. Guys who wanted to commit elaborate species-wide genocide and whose "motivation" basically involved staring into the camera and gritting their teeth.

Sexual orientation and gender identity are just like race in how they're part of who someone is? I mean, maybe, but that doesn't seem self-evident to me.