Great read - for a so-called ‘Gary Stu’ Holden is one hell of a bumbling fool who keeps stumbling into one god-awful mess after another (entirely of his own making, as often as not) and somehow stumbles out again without destroying the entire solar system. He’s not magically omni-competent; and quite often he’s a…

As far as I can tell, returning to The Matrix was always more of a passion project for Lana and Lily has taken a step out of the industry since, basically, the end of season one of Sense8 except for another television project for Showtime set to debut in December IIRC.  They’re both pretty publicity shy, but I don’t…

Or you know, how about being “all woke” enough to stop slut-shaming sex workers. Especially when we’re talking about a character who is most often presented in fetishwear and spike heels that strike me as somewhat... impractical for Gotham City’s a-list high end thief.

“Cameos” are fine up to a point — but they’ve got to actually serve a compelling story and (I know this is Arrowverse heresy) that’s where the “crossover events” tend to fall short for me. I’m sure there’s plenty of people who will strenuously disagree, and all respect to everyone who makes what must be a logistical…

Crossovers can also be a logistic/scheduling nightmare to make work even if all the shows involved are on the same network/platform.  At the extreme, the ‘Arrowverse’ cross-overs get so complicated that IIRC one show basically shut down for a day (which is not a cost you incur lightly).

Oh, based on what we’ve seen of the Romulans I’m sure someone has filled the vaccum. But I can’t imagine it would be particularly stable considering at the opening of Nemesis the Praetor and most of the Senate are assassinated in a coup a few years after the end of the Dominion War; then their homeworld is destroyed…

Damn right - The homeworld of the Romulan Empire has just been destroyed - along with most of their political and military leadership. At the same time, Ambassador Spock, one of the Federation’s most distinguished figures (and a leader of the Reunification movement) is missing, presumed dead. That’s not a shitstorm…

Also acceptable answer from Fiennes: “I’m too damn busy these days to be spending the best part of a year feeding lines to a tennis ball on a stick in front of a green screen.”

Uh, up to a point. I think the BBC is keenly aware which shows are generating income through things like foreign sales, home media and merchandising.

Basically, yes — Moffat has said that he had to at least sketch out possibilities if Matt Smith had passed as he was not under contract to do a 50th anniversary episode. David Tennant and Billie Piper also apparently had really tight windows between other hard committments, so if the schedule had slipped they’d have…

Exceedingly unlikely as Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill own The League and Moore is really done letting other children play with his toys. :)

I imagine a significant boost was that in 2017, seventy years after H.G. Wells’ death, copyright lapsed on his books in the United Kingdom which probably helped matters considerably.

As far as I’m aware The Left Hand of Darkness was optioned by a television production company four or five years ago (with Le Guin attached as a consulting producer) and it’s been under development as a limited series ever since.

Which was precisely NOT the point of H.G. Wells pointed satire of imperial hubris.

Indeed. And how hard would be it to just say something like this.

And, frankly, with Todd Phillips escalating to Full Trump whining about the ‘far left’ I don’t blame Warners for wanting to keep him away from a live mic as well.

If anyone at WB really thinks that, they should be fired for gross incompetence. Or they’re doing so many drugs they don’t remember Universal pulling The Hunt from release, indefinitely, a mere six weeks ago?

Meh... if we’re going to talk about “unspeakably dumb” I don’t blame Warners for not wanting to give Todd Phillips any more opportunities to make a fool of himself into a live mic. FFS, he’s days from his $50 million movie getting a wide international opening on 4,000+ screens in North America alone. Anyone with half…

Given the way Todd Phillips has been doubling down on the whiny and stupid every time he’s had a live microphone in range this week, this is probably a good call.

*sigh* Nobody likes criticism. I sure don’t. But, once more, I find it really hard to get terribly exercised about Phillips bitching and whining because his $50 million dollar film that is days away from a 4,500 screen wide opening in North America is facing criticism. I’m also all the way over him acting like his…