Which would have been a valid point to make, but wasn’t the point that was being made.

Ehh... If Gi’ah shows up again, I’m not convinced the origin of her powers will be all that important. The universe is full of incredible beings — running into one more hardly needs a detailed explanation of their origins, especially when they’re already an alien.

Friends (you know, that TV show that was so popular it made every single lead actor a multi-millionaire in large part because of residuals—the very income stream that has now all but disappeared)

I don’t think you needed that many slides.

Did I miss the part where SAG were striking in solidarity with the WGA? Some members refused to cross picket lines, but many, many productions carried on shooting until SAG called their own separate strike.

It’s 9 actually, you’re excluding the Atom Eve special. And they’re hour-long episodes, so it’s the equivalent of at least 18 of almost any other animated series. That’s far from a complete explanation, of course, but I never defended how long it’s taken to produce season 2, only them not dropping the whole season at…

The budget for Citadel will never stop being gobsmacking. Setting aside the quality of the show (not good, really not good), it manages to simultaneously look like they spent a fortune on it and cheap and full of corner-cutting.

As much as I agree that it’s ridiculous how long it’s taken (and continues to take), I would imagine splitting the season is just a scheduling choice. There’s probably a big cliffhanger and/or twist in episode 4 that they expect will get people talking and hopefully attract new viewers, so they’re giving them some…

Ooh, a bonus episode, that’s cool.

Given how much this site likes to talk up their support for the Hollywood strikes, I feel like you really shouldn’t discuss the continued exploitation of Watchmen without at least a mention of how DC fucked over Moore and Gibbons.

I tweaked a comic book related page once. Someone had created a table listing all the issues of that series, but had left it half filled in for over a year. When filling in some of the missing information and making a few painfully obvious corrections, I also deleted a bunch of columns from the table that were empty…

This is a cool idea. But an incredibly annoying one too. Not least because you basically have to buy two largely identical comics (×6) to get the full story.

Does it count as cropped if they specifically shot it with both aspect ratios in mind?

At my local multiplex, I find the row behind the “extra leg room” seating also has extra leg room, at no additional cost (unless “extra leg room” has always actually been about the row behind you, with the benefit being that you don’t get kicked in the back of the chair as often).

Isn’t it though? Most of my university friends were of Indian descent, and they introduced me to some Bollywood stuff back in the early 00s. I liked a fair bit of it, but there was always a level of cheese and an amateurish feel that you just had to accept. But then I discovered Omkara and... wow!

If you can track down a copy, Omkara (an adaptation of Othello) is phenomenal. It’s got all the bells and whistles of mainstream Indian cinema (i.e. it’s full of songs), but the filmmaking is much more... uh... let’s call it sophisticated. The director, Vishal Bhardwaj (who also co-wrote the script and composed the…

“intentionally inscrutable”

Not so. Babylon 5 was specifically shot with both ratios in mind in an attempt at future proofing. The problem is that WB refused to pay (a miniscule amount) to have the effects produced in widescreen too.

I’d expect 4:3.

Apples and oranges. The Silmarillion was effectively a prequel, and published after the two novels.