Agree with everything about this, apart from Fincher being more likely to drag me in than Flynn.

No he wasn't, it's just that having Ginnifer Goodwin in most of his scenes made him seem more bearable than he would have been otherwise.

"If you think about it, not many people now, in America, have made good on film subsequent to television."

That actually sounds like a decent idea. Footloose, for all its plus points, is still a ridiculous film and in the early 80's teen film flops were ten a penny. In any case, why would Cimino be the right choice to direct a teen comedy? It would be like giving John Hughes a Vietnam war film.

In theory, but the reality is that making an established character gay all too often feels like a stunt, like when they temporarily kill someone off to get headlines in the mainstream media. That's what this feels like - something cheap to get headlines without any of the character groundwork that would make Bobby's…

There were rumours about Iceman being gay at some point in the past, to the point where Northstar had to tell everyone he was 'definitely straight'.