I thought he was Canadian?

I'm going to throw out something that I wonder if it's just generational, but….

I saw the doc, and really enjoyed it! I got a real sense of the relationship between Adam and his dad. And an interesting insight into what fame looks like from the family's perspective. I also thought it was interesting to hear the other folks who worked with him as actors and directors. Lots of good stuff in there.

Yes, and lawyers generally aren't cheap. If they win they will have spent a lot of hours, and they want to get paid for it. The contingency fee is often a percentage of the award, and if you win $1 the law firm isn't going to want 20 cents of that, given the staff time. So they have an incentive to ask for (and fight…

As per @avclub-ff8ee1d5c84a9aede7a54344151622cd:disqus — the numbers always look huge at the start, but they go way down over the course of the suit. The reason the claims get huge (to most people) is a) they rarely end up that way and b) libel is hard to prove in the US c) you want to make the company take notice. d)…

If I may, the issue with Snyder directing Watchmen was that (IMO, anyway) he got the form right, but not the spirit of the thing. Snyder's love of slo-mo fights got away from the fact that the Watchmen were not super powered invulnerables, which is why the stuff they get into has weight. Only Dr Manhattan is at all…

See @avclub-556af2550dcbee76da893225af4aaf44:disqus — there's the Byrne theme of identity, and per @disqus_Zt4JAKoGQ8:disqus the dates you'd want (~30 years ago, ye gods, that long?). And to expand on that a bit, Byrne did a lot to humanize Superman, in the sense that at he de-powered him a bit and was willing to walk…

I grew up on Tom Baker. And honestly, I still love the way Christopher Eccleston played it. I really wish he'd hung around another season or two. Not that I didn't dig Tennant and Smith as well, and I am liking Capaldi a lot too. But I felt like the writing in the fist few seasons was a little more cohesive.

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the Superman comics they were looking at were John Byrne-era, I think. I thought that an interesting choice.

Things I liked: interrogating the Doctor by torturing a rubber dildo with hair. Lucy doesn't take any of his crap and doesn't just believe him and actually acts like a real journalist. Bravo.

Can I throw out a small observation that I kind of liked, not the "Hallelujah" moment, which was of course intense and very Wachowski.

Will someone explain to me why anyone listens to Lena Dunham, and how a clearly intelligent woman can not think that "Hey maybe being a walking talking parody of millennial feminism is a bad idea?" She has the worst kinds of narcissism — the one where you do things to make every issue all about the self, the…

There's a very good story (perhaps someone has mentioned it already in the comments?) by Allen Steele, called "The Days Between" and the premise is very similar— except our protagonist isn't a creep and in fact learns to deal with his loneliness. I sort'a wish they made that into a movie.

I am SO glad to hear that Marvel did right by him. I wouldn't feel silly at all in your place; the royalties they offered recently weren't in his original contracts (which was why he was broke to begin with). There was absolutely no guarantee they would do anything and given that they hadn't for like, decades, absent…

Yeah that kind of bothered me too. Asking someone to move in is a big step; there's all sorts of practicalities that have to be worked out (commuting being one — if your job is in Manhattan you sure as hell want to avoid moving to Forest Hills unless you have a copy of War and Peace to get through during your mornings…

I mentioned this on the other thread about the crossover, but we got an Infantino street in this episode, why not a Mantlo building or something in the last?

I thought the whole thing was a decent enough piece of work, but it got me thinking of Bill Mantlo.

Q: anyone know what he did after acting? His WIki page doesn't say anything about it, and I was curious if he did behind-the-camera stuff or not…

Cosign your sentiments re: Beatles. My parents were also a bit pre-hippie (they went to college in 1960 and graduated ca. 1963). I heard Beatles as a child and we played those records until they were scratched all to hell.

I'll throw out a few that might be a little more obscure, but I've listened to them a lot even if nobody else does.