There’s another one, Anpanman, which debuted just before The Simpsons and is still going. Also Doraemon, which started in 1979, only gets disqualified because it rebooted in 2005 without actually stopping broadcasting.

So what you’re saying is mid-budget movies about the Apocalypse are the way forward.

The first version of A Star is Born, from 1937, maybe?

I think the original Gundam suffers a bit visually even by the standards of the time — there’s a lot of rather weak, indeterminate linework in it.

The various TARDIS interiors in Doctor Who are an example of how futuristic designs age — some of the original-series ones look very of-their-time (the 80s one with contemporary computer displays most of all), but the use of retro and just plain odd elements in the more recent series is holding up much better.

Learn2Fly is referring the comics — Ronan is the first Kree that appeared there, and he like some others got retconned from pink to blue skin later on. The idea of differing Kree skin colours has been carried over to the movies from the beginning.

I may well be out of date on sources and earlier versions. I’ve read the Burton translation of Galland’s Aladdin, though, and while it’s set in China, this reads as a very thin coat of paint over a Middle Eastern setting identical to other stories collected with it.

So Loki’s genderfluidity is measured in pints instead of litres.

Thing is, I liked The Last Jedi and thought this leaked script looked awful.

The first known version is theoretically set in China, but it’s the Middle East in everything but the name. Whether it’s a French imitation or, as claimed, from a Syrian storyteller is uncertain, but it’s got strong parallels to “Judar and His Brothers”, which is in the 1001 Nights.

Maybe not in the US, but cinema chains in Britain including Odeon and Cineworld have been running subscription schemes for a long while — certainly before Moviepass went to its $10 model, and maybe before it was founded at all.

Time travel opens up a lot of “why don’t they just....?” questions, and I don’t think season 1 was very good at either breezing past them or answering them. Until the bit late on about Vandal working with the Time Bureau, it was people with access to all of time trying to stop someone who didn’t have it, wasn’t a…

Yes, you can see a change between Season of Mists and Brief Lives. Delirium goes from depressive to a more extroverted childish personality, as well.

I guess if you established a clear voice-modulation sound for Death, and then applied the same to a ‘squeak’ noise, that might just about translate it?

Spinoffs by other artists happen a fair bit in manga, but straight-up handovers which are treated as the true continuation are rare.

There have been a lot of attempts to invent new pronouns, but without widespread adoption for any one option, they tend to feel much more artificial than the straightforward extension of ‘they’.

Legends has the characters’ bad decisions lead to fun outcomes, I think that’s key to the audience forgiving them.

There are bits of Chrestomanci which feel like direct parodies of Harry Potter, despite the pesky being-published-first issue. Pretty much all of Witch Week, with its crappy private school in a world where witches are killed on discovery, plus the bit in Charmed Life where one of the characters doesn’t take it at all…

Splitting the third book into two films then cancelling the second one has to be a bit of a caveat about how well Divergent did.

Also, a lot of major Japanese video game companies also sprawl over a wide range of other types of entertainment (Nintendo maybe less than others), which increases the difficulty of staying away from these problems.