I expect there’s a story in this about how a work that’s over 400 years old even *has* film rights that aren’t considered public domain. I mean, it’s not like Shakespeare plays have to go through this, it’s typically 70 years, and even in Spain it’s for life-plus-80. Surely Mr. Cervantes is well past the window.

They both look to be velour, so I would guess they were understood to be different color.

I can’t imagine Tim Burton even knows anyone in this day and age who would be willing to attempt a racial caricature of a cro-

I would have gone with “completely devoid of feck”

I’d always wanted to see an adventure that paired Neelix (Ethan Phillips, a.k. Pete Downey on Benson) with Odo (Renee Auberjenois, a.k.a. Clayton Endicott on Benson). I wonder if those two ever debate who won the gubernatorial election from the Benson cliffhanger finale.

I believe today’s cultural affair with loveable rogues started with The Outrageous Okona, which took all these influences and synthesized them into a fun and unforgettable character that started a whole renaissance of this trope still going strong after 30 years, as cineplexes will attest.

Fair Use never covers as much as people think it does. It’s not like there isn’t a huge industry of entertainment and IP lawyers paid by various parties to know exactly what one can get away with commercially. If they don’t charge admission to see “Not Sesame All Street”, STX’s Fair Use case gets much stronger,…

To be honest, I’m surprised it wasn’t trademarked in, like 1960.

If you are not natively US, feel free to ignore Ricardo’s nonsense about Republicans and Democrats as anything close to an accurate lens to understanding the Civil War and modern political sentiments. He is being historically dishonest and knows it, because he wants to associate rational certainty to the unswerving…

Marx was wrong, very wrong, about many things. But the Communist Manifesto was written for and about 1848. Most of what he later wrote was an analysis of defeat more interesting than what reads like a direct action pamphlet.

I hope they acknowledge that.

(I think he is starring his own comments)

The Klingonese scenes in Discovery didn’t necessarily have to be that bad and Westworld might do just fine.

I know of no series in which a major dramatic question is the nature of the reality the characters inhabit that has ever had a satisfactory finale. I wonder if anyone has any examples otherwise (maybe “The Prisoner”, which I haven’t seen?).

It’s about time Germany got back into into that whole Antarctica-Moon base program. Well done!

Well, yea. And why didn’t someone weaponize a hyperdrive before? Star Wars is a very loose tapestry of Huge Sacrificial Moments vs the softest sci-fi scenarios possible for the biggest audience, rendering every debate around how heroism should work very arbitrary when measured against a contradicting backstory and…

You know, F-14 pilots on an 80's aircraft carrier wouldn’t be the *worst* setting for Season 10.

Then why even use R2? If they had that technology, why not outfit every X-wing they had with a flying droid? Why the whole speech about how difficult it was?

hmm. now that you mention it, why didn’t Luke just have R2-D2 jetpack into the 2-meter Death Star opening with a thermal detonator.

I think you mean 1860's, though. right?