I agree about it being possible and quite believable for him to become more snarky with the mask on. It doesn't take a stretch of the imagination in the age of the internet, when most of us find it easier to speak our minds more openly and directly and with a bit of venom when behind the mask of anonymity. You could…

In the case of Red Skull, not only did we not see his body but also have seen subsequently that he may not have been killed by his contact with the Tesseract at all. He may have simply been transported across the universe. His departure from The First Avenger very much resembles the manner in which Thor departed Earth…

The clip from the one-shot notwithstanding, it seems to me the retcon is easily done. As I saw it, this new series takes place before the one-shot. Once Howard is in the clear and Carter has continued to prove her mettle in secret, the events of the one-shot take place in which Howard puts Peggy in charge of SHIELD.

I was unimpressed with the entire show also but will give the ending this much credit. It made a lot more sense than the promise of the ads you saw everywhere (including MSNBC) that the U.S. had the technology to design, build in secret, recruit and train a crew for, and launch an interstellar generation ship without…

Correction, you believe you made yourself "understood." And you have no clue what I understand, such as debating anybody except someone you can't browbeat.

Now I get ya....if you have to engage the brain and debate using reason rather than tantums, you bail. That short enough for you? Do I need to use smaller words?

Be my guest! It's something I began to say regarding my last partner, who behaved badly for entirely too long. But I only wanted to see the good in him and refused to see all the emotionally abusive, manipulative, narcissistic reasons I should have tossed him out long before. The White Cosmic Courtesy Clue Phone kept…

I confess I had managed somehow to not see any of Arrow until the Flash/Arrow crossover (being a lifetime Flash fan and all, haven't missed a single episode). After that two-parter, I've been binge watching Arrow from the start on Hulu and am about 2/3ds of the way through season 1. But I couldn't resist catching last…

So did I. It surprises me when Trek fans grouse about how every movie is the same, usually accompanied by nasal whining about "I hate time travel" or "I hate running back to Earth" but then piss and moan about a story like Insurrection that was not only a departure from all those "fouls" but then was true to the…

I was intrigued by Cisco's observation that Barry describes yellow AND red lightning in the room when his mother died. A Facebook poster offered a really hot idea to explain that. The red lightning was older Barry who traveled back in time in an attempt to prevent his mom's death and it was elder Barry who spirited…

Time's Arrow? Really? Better than Yesterday's Enterprise or The City on the Edge of Forever? Nah. Not even close to as good as either one of those.

Why don't you just ask Mr. Wright out on a date and pour out all your undying affection on him in person instead of gushing about him to everybody else?

Having seen it in the comfort of my room, I can say I'm glad I didn't spend a bunch of money to see it in the theater today. I knew it was only 88 seconds but it feels like a third of that time was wasted showing a black screen. In the words of buxom henchmistress Eve Teschmacher from the first two Superman films, "I…

Ah, but the theater here in Seattle is currently showing Big Hero 6, which I have yet to see. Since the trailer appears before all films, I get to see the trailer AND a movie I've wanted to see anyway.

Actually, the music in this trailer was composed by Two Steps From Hell, who specializes in writing trailer music. This particular track is called Freedom Fighters and was originally used in the trailer for the first J.J. Abrams Trek reboot film.

Is it some kind of job requirement at io9 that you make a habit of looking down your noses at everything that doesn't match your snobish notion of what flawless science fiction is?

For the record, if you want to keep ideas that aren't to your satisfaction in "your" science fiction, then don't write any. Interstellar isn't your science fiction, it's Nolan's. And if we wants to color outside the lines of orthodoxy, you can opt out of ponying up for a ticket. But don't be telling people what to do…

I agree about both the 1966 Batmobile and the Mach 5. Those are two of my favorite 3 fantasy cars, the third being Doc Brown's DeLorean from Back to the Future. When I was a boy, I stood 2 feet away from one of the '66 Batmobiles that toured county fairs and no Batmobile since has had the same appeal.

When I was…

Should have known I could not have done a whit better than Asimov. I've long been saying that while science is a philosophy and discipline by which we might craft narratives that help us understand the physical truth of how the universe works, it does not find "the truth" in (as Asimov put it) any absolute sense.…

Notwithstanding Banner's comment to Tony Stark in The Avengers that the last time he was in New York, he "sorta broke Harlem."