One thing about Buffy is that every odd-numbered season finale could have worked as a series finale. Makes it easier to remember the good times when there’s a few break points to choose from.

While talking like a regular mook villain instead of a highfalutin’ one, too.

They might not have been written down often, but most of the popular ones now do have histories at least that long.

Maybe they get to register whatever accent they think sounds good on them with the Universal Translator.

I’ve seen the suggestion that swimming might not actually have been such a common skill during the age of piracy the series is inspired by — partly because if you’re in the water without someone around to throw you a line, you’ve not got a lot of hope anyway.

Wasn’t part of Suicide Squad’s trouble that it had a dark-comedy trailer cut for a grittier film, so they ended up going back to try and rework the film to be like the trailer? Whereas this seems to have had its tone properly decided from the beginning.

The frenetic quality of the manga’s art already gets partly lost in animation, never mind live action.

I think some of Catcher in the Rye’s reputation is built on being one of the first works about the teenage years as a distinct phase of life. And that’s resulted in it being pushed at teenagers ever since, which isn’t entirely fair to either side of that equation.

“The Customs-House” is a particularly long example of something you find more in older fiction — a frame story to give an explanation of how the real story could have possibly got into your hands.

Yeah, the highest and lowest scores aren’t that far apart, and seem to be converging rapidly towards the ends of the top 10 lists.

The galactic network isn’t so much predictive of the contemporary Internet as taking inspiration from Usenet newsgroups at the time it was written. (Though there are plenty of parallels.)

Come on. Copying the structure of Kurosawa films for Star Wars? When have they ever done that?

Turning about 13 pages of comics a week (published in an anthology with hundreds of pages) into 25 minutes of TV every week really did a number on the pacing.

It still seems possible that pretty much all of those activities could blur into feeling like minor variations-on-a-theme.

Isn’t all of that Nemesis? Insurrection was the one with the fountain-of-youth planet.

When I visited the church with this altarpiece, they had a poster outside advertising it with the restored lamb’s face and the words ‘OMG LAM GODS IS HERE’. Guess they already saw the memetic potential then.

It was more that they were the hostages held in your place.

I’m not made of stone.

an Antiques Roadshow parody a full decade ahead of schedule

DC’s most famous Glaswegian: