Oh man, this past summer I rediscovered a swimming hole/fishing hole from my childhood that I hadn’t been to in forty years. It was magical. It was also 109% Lake Beach.

Yup, once the mantle of Destroyer of Worlds is passed to him and he gets nuked, everything that happens is a new timeline and the show goes off on its own tangent.

The wife and I have been catching up on the last few seasons of Agents of SHIELD and for those who skipped them, it really delved into the Star Trek of having a group of quasi-federal agents/robot shipmates/spies/superheroes on a spaceship of it all. And after a massive time jump they’ve been slowly making their way…

That’s beautiful, man. My son is seven and on the spectrum (last Saturday’s Halloween kid party was a shitshow that every single adult helped make better with understanding and patience), and last night he asked if we could watch Nightmare after dinner. It’s been a fave since he was three. I said “Sure!” and he queued…

Agreed, 109%. I worked in budgets for features and DisneyChannel once upon a time, and nothing I ever saw made me wince like the reports now about how much something Secret Invasion or Willow ended up costing.* It’s like everyone looked at Iger’s buying spree and went “Ah, you gotta spend money to make money, that’s…

Although it had fuck-all to do with the Willow story itself, props to you for bringing the story, the legend, of Ray J Johnson to the younger generation.

But..but they were/are “overbuying content and projecting exponential growth in perpetuity.” I work for the Mouse and the amount of money it takes to get even the smallest shit done is insane. And when just one of your series titles is like 200m, and you’ve got 8-10 projects of that size in the pipeline every fiscal…

Honestly? If you got in the habit of not wearing a watch in the pre-smartphone days, you got pretty good at guesstimating how long things took or are taking.
(I’m 50, didn’t wear a watch for big chunks of my 20's, and I got crazy good at guessing the time back then.)

If you want a real world example of this exact thing, go look up old threads from Twin Peaks: The Return. Agent Cooper didn’t fully show back up until ep 16 (out of 18.)
And a lot of viewers were pissed.

okay, sold!

So you’ve actually forgotten the iconic scene of him cutting and eating cold pizza with a pair of scissors?
...
Really?

When this scene came on in The Muppets, I was like “Yessss...oh my god, Beaker’s gonna actually say it.” And then I fell out of my seat laughing.

Ah yes, the “Roger Moore is Inspector Clouseau” answer to your problem.

Yeah, I’m with you. I worked at a comic shop in high school and I couldn’t wait to grab my own copy of Elementals before stocking the shelves, and I put that stuff up there with Miller and Moore’s work as far as influential mid-80's titles go. But Fables? Eh, it’s...fine, I guess. I couldn’t get into it and never got…

If DC’s ‘Rip Hunter, Time Master’ can count, so can Dr. Who.

Ah, neat. I was going by the page’s title:

Your definition of “superhero tv shows” is a broad and unusual one, my friend.

That’s what I was replying to, that Faris’ character was based on Diaz during the Being John Malkovich Japanese press junket (sorry if that was unclear.)

If you have occasion to re-watch it, remember that she’s playing a thinly-disguised version of Cameron Diaz.

Christmas Day, 2014.

It’s in the mid 70's and I’m lying on a towel on the beach at Playa Del Rey, directly behind the tarmac at LAX, kissing a 6' tall German transfer student and alternately napping and drinking white wine. Eventually it becomes dark out and we pack up and head back up the hill.

It was my last…