Netflix has the rights outside the US — I can see it’s available in the UK, for instance — but SyFy will have it over there.

Somewhere, there’s a kid who wants to watch Paddington and who’s going to be very confused.

The dealer could have supplied something to help experience that bit.

Being treated like a ghost isn’t part of the Pac-Man experience?

Or standard Netflix Original Series pacing, one or the other.

Besides its other problems, the telepath plot seems to suffer from being extended to fill time meant for material that got moved into Season 4 to finish off the civil war arc before possible cancellation.

A hundred years Thor and Loki.

Lupin III has a voice actor who’s been playing the part for *49* years.

I think a certain set of 8 episodes which were made in order probably helped kill it, fun as the idea of them was.

Looks like the AV Club got episodes 1, 2, and 6 — there’s an LA Times review which says it got episodes 1 and 6, and the descriptions match.

The Final Problem tied up the original short stories nicely (or would have if it stayed the last one) with Watson laying out a very Sherlock-like series of deductions explaining what happened at the Reichenbach Falls.

Kids’ films often have more varied international release schedules than most, to catch the local school holidays. Might that be what’s happening here?

Sonja is mostly a creation of the comics, the Howard story the character was loosely based on is historical fiction set in the 16th century.

With lots of writers over lots of issues over lots of years, sooner or later someone’s going to have a go at these things....

Ptolemy’s way too conceited for the job, though. He thinks the sun revolves round him.

You can see an option next to a ‘liked’ tweet to say “I don’t like this tweet” — if you select it, all ‘liked’ tweets will be hidden from you for a while. Doesn’t matter which tweet you pick, so don’t worry about the content.

The Attenborough docs are separated in production by several years, remember, and also justify repetition by steadily advancing camera tech.

Berlin Alexanderplatz (the novel especially) is well worth reading as a portrait of the same era for the less well-off, and as a contemporary work it’s one of the few available that doesn’t have to deal with viewing it in hindsight.

Speaking as someone who watches a lot of anime, AAAAAGH WHY DO HER EYES LOOK LIKE THAT???

I’d assumed Steppenwolf as a lead-in for Darkseid and Batman’s nightmare actually playing out were part of the plan at some point, though didn’t guess the stuff in the middle there.