You'd think 'The Final Season' all over the trailers and ads would strongly imply that a 6th season isn't in the cards. At least, that's the inference I'd draw. :)

Except Freddy had a Very Special Episode (an 80s/90s staple) which was about... I dunno, drinking? Drugs? Something that was real and scary and that he made us think about because it was the 80s. Sad Freddy was weird.

(not that I objected to all the slink)

Just lay off the LSD. :)

Yes. From what I've read, 'Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11' follows on directly from the end of Letters of Transit.

However, if we all make it so unprofitable for the Chinese government to fund American movies, they'll stop doing so.

No argument here - and it was certainly a glorious oddity in a mainstream comic culture often, and fairly, criticized for generally sucking at writing women characters as opposed to zeppelin-titted wank fodder shrink-wrapped in clit-choking spandex. Anyone who isn't a little bit in love with Halo Jones is a zombie. …

Terry Quinn? Yup. I think he's a wonderful character actor and I can understand why casting him to type is so damn tempting. But on the genre tip, so is Mark Pellegrino, Mark A. Shepherd, Jeffrey Combs, Tricia Helfer (who would be kick-ass sexy in a trash bag after a dip in a sewer) and a dozen others I can rattle…

The the Gods, Old and New, that it's not just me. I saw her in an episode of Suburbgatory and wondered if her contract included a bath of fresh virgin's blood in the dressing room. :)

Forgotten? One of the best stories...ever?

I can't be the only one who suspects that Del Toro is the worst ADHD project starter in Hollywood.

As I said, I'll break with internet tradition and refrain from commenting on something I haven't seen. :) But everythin g I've read has said that Alex Garland's screenplay nailed the tone of the comics pretty well. So, yeah, I fully expect it to be extremely violent and Dredd to be a "shoot first, ask questions…

I think it's a total piece of shit, but all the business about transcending pleasure and pain (or rather, removing the distinction between the two) strikes me as pretty metal.

Not really - when you're a ten-foot tall, torturing being made out of steak knives and razor-wire "hostile" is pretty much it. But, as so often happens with Simmons, the assumptions everyone makes about where The Shrike came from, who created it and what it's ultimate purpose is turn out to have only a grain of truth…

I imagine it's how English people feel when they watch Game of Thrones and Peter Dinklage talks.

You can't even SAY "transsexual" on American television. Well, not on the embarrasingly awful Rocky Horror episode of Glee. *eyeroll*

To be fair, those original agents were just doing their job: to make the book as marketable as possible. [...] but the agents have a duty to their author to make the book sell. You can't exactly blame them for making the smart choice.

The Thor look on the left would be awesome for his "Go to fucking WAR" moment in Thor 2 or Avengers 2.

Brand new Iron Man 3 concept art includes star-spangled armor

Oh, God... do we have to do this again? The Raid's script wasn't even finished when principal photography began on Dredd, on the other side of the planet under the auspices of a different studio. IIRC, Alex Garland had handed in his script over a year before that (basically identical to the final shooting script)…