If I had known it was going to be that kind of party, I’d have brought some mashed potatoes.

My children Arabica, Robustica, and Eugenioides aren’t about me, they’re about what I love. 

It may or may not be what you’re thinking of, but I enjoyed Paula Volsky’s Illusion: “For two hundred years the Exalted classes have used their dazzling magical abilities to rule Vonahr. Now, their powers grown slack from disuse and their attention turned to decadent pleasures, they ignore the misery of the lower…

In January, there was a poll (PBS/NPR/Marist) in which 50% of the Latinos questioned approved of the job that President Trump is doing. Trump being Trump and Fox being Fox, that got a lot of coverage, including a tweet from Trump. However, there were a lot of caveats (small sample size in the subpopulation, only asked…

Not only was Infinity War already jam-packed, Thor had already used an overpowered goddess tied to Death. Trying to distinguish between a goddess and an embodiment of a concept is not the sort of thing the Marvel movies would excel at. 

Indeed. Lots of those who cheerfully cite Popper equally cheerfully ignore Popper’s remarks that “I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion.”

You can’t have royalty like Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca the Third slumming with those commoners!

Yes, they made a real point in the later movies that Cap has a beard.

Man of Steel was a great setup for a movie that wasn’t BvS. The ideal followup would have been Presidential candidate Lex Luthor, campaigning on an Earth is for Humans slogan (fulfilling Pa Kent’s worries). 

Even that went in an interesting direction: he was now the deadbeat dad trying to re-integrate with those he abandoned.

Wait, they’re here!? Then why won’t someone GET ME PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN?

Are you sure? I thought he was IV people!

Ooh, what about a <i>King Lear</i> with Lex as the King; with, oh, Mercy Graves as Goneril, Lena Luther as Regan, and shape-shifting Mae as Cordelia (I wish I could shoe-horn her in as Kara-delia, though)? Superman can cameo as France.

But it was gorilla covers that moved the merchandise!

My core assumption is that the Commission is acting in the way of large bureaucracies everywhere: to keep themselves alive. (My suspicion had been that mechanical time travel was developed post-apocalypse by a small band of survivors: if they don’t keep time consistent, there is a chance they will never exist). 

The size difference made me keep assuming that they were arranged in age — I had to keep reminding myself that they were all supposed to be the same age. At the end, I guess agewise 5 > 4 > (1, 2, 3, 7) > 6.

I didn’t end up liking the Luther/Diego relationship very much ; reading around, I guess it was supposed to feel like a rivalry over leadership, but there was no leadership and too few scenes where the entire family was together through the entire story arc.

I like Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da :( Why wasn’t I told I was a freak years ago!?

Calling it here: it will gradually morph into a Just Shoot Me! reboot, better than ever.

Fake news! Those history teachers were misquoted.