Batman is the least interesting thing about Batman. Like Wolverine, Angel, Geralt, and every other brooding tough-guy loner, the thing that makes him at all meaningful is the (non-romantic) relationships he’s thrust into almost against his will — whether with Robin and the “Bat-family” or even the Justice League. It’s…

Kevin Conroy is still the best Batman casting.

I would have liked it better if Rey were somehow the offspring of some forbidden Obi Wan/Satine Kryze action. Not sure how they would have worked that out, given the duchess’ fate, but it’s a space opera. They could have tried harder.

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Ooh, time for some Smiths jokes.  Stop me if you’ve heard this one before...

I know, I know, it’s serious.

Sad lament for The Expanse: it could never catch a break on these end-of-the-year lists because its seasons largely began in mid-December and ran into February (at its longest). It was always either too early to include, or too old to remember. Don’t know where this final arc will land within the show's run. I think…

In my opinion Into The Spider-verse is the best by far, and quite possibly the best superhero movie ever made.  Great story and visually stunning, but above all just a joyous love letter for the source material that really gets at a spirit that none of the live action ones can touch.

Roger Ebert gave The Amazing Spider-Man 3.5 stars, and Spider-Man 3 two stars. In this, he was right, and Dowd is wrong.

How dare they.

Yep. Beard has a lot to answer for, and his reckoning doesn’t come in the finale just like it doesn’t really come for Ted, either. For someone who is supposedly fervently loyal to Ted, he isn’t actually a very good assistant coach in the ways that matter. The first assistant (and I have been this person at the college…

I suspect Trent is going to be Richmond’s new PR director.

It is 100% the head coach’s responsibility to know that one of his coaches is bullying players and employees, and it became Beard’s responsibility once he saw it happening and failed to recognize when it wasn’t stopping.

I know better than to expect this, but for a second there I thought Captain Carter was going to refuse to go back to her reality, and Uatu would bump her into the main MCU.

Still bitter there is not an Agent Carter s3 with Peggy and her frenemy proto-Black Widow Dottie teaming up to flight blonde Nazi superwomen, or something 

Captain Carter’s rapport with Black Widow was very charming. I believe the creatives have said they’ll revisit Carter next season, so I’m looking forward to more of her in the modern world, seeing how she would adjust compared to Rogers. Make sure it’s actually different though, not a copy/paste of Winter Soldier.

I didn’t really read the Ms. Bowen/Jamie thing as the show setting up love triangles.

I guess I’m just less concerned with the actual football/sports politics side of the show than some people. I’m not bothered by the detour away from the field for a while. I’m here for the character interactions and emotional arcs. The game itself is one vehicle for that and can be pretty cool, but it’s not the only…

I mean, in the most literal terms, yes, Tony does the opposite thing: in Ultron he personally and privately builds a system to “keep the world safe” that would relieve him and his friends from the responsibility of doing it, and in Civil War he goes looking for an external authority that will relieve him (and his…