Well, now it’s inevitable.

I’m having a hard time coming up with any animated franchise that hasn’t had its corpse revived recently. There was the first wave of reboot nostalgia, the second wave of, “Hey, people can draw from home, right?” in the middle of the pandemic, and now we’re in that third wave of every single remaining property asking…

A role like “stunt supervisor” on a project like this should also net you some sort of producer credit. You probably end up contributing to what happens and doesn’t happen on screen as much as the director.

To my knowledge, no one has even attempted skit nor satire about attempting to “modernize” the logo. You just don’t think of it. Not even in an attempt at sacrilege. It feels weird to even identify it as an “M,” even though that’s exactly what it is.

My a-bit-too-on-the-nose theory is that Riddler is trying to bait Batman into going after Bruce Wayne for the sins of his father (corruption and crime connections, coerced or otherwise). The Riddler hasn’t figured out his identity, but every day that passes without Batman getting into a fistfight with Bruce makes…

I think two years in could be interesting. There’s no way he’s some paragon of peace and justice yet. He’s probably incredibly competent at the skill set already but starting to get impatient that he’s not seeing results. Part of him probably still feels like what he’s going out there and doing is wrong, to some…

I would actually love a series where King Shark returns to the sea after being ridiculed for being dumb, only to find that as far as fish intelligence is concerned, he’s brilliant beyond the comprehension of his peers. He becomes a social pariah for even attempting to preach “don’t eat friends,” which is blasphemy to…

They’re just going to keep making more Mission Impossible movies in the meantime, aren’t they? By the time 7 actually comes out, they’re going to announce that he’s died in an accident on Mission Impossible 10.

That, and also art direction. A bright green cap would draw the eye, and the hot sauce bottle isn’t the focus of the scene. It would have been just as easy to create a modified green super-soaker nozzle, but that would be the brightest, most colorful thing in the entire shot. Yes, they get that particular on that…

It’s not even about how much it made in the past; it’s about how much an IP could make in the future. Ghost of Tsushima 2? I’ll pick that up on day 1. Days Gone 2? Hard pass.

For me, what works about Batman Returns is that it builds a hero/villain spectrum based on people’s level of separation between animal persona and human. Bruce is pretty nuts, but he knows that he is not a literal bat. His ability to maintain that separation is what keeps him the hero. The whole thing is a cautionary…

It would be hilarious to attempt the same thing with the Fantastic 4, bringing the other iterations together (Fantastic 4⁴?). Especially when the Human Torches bear an uncanny resemblance to Steve Rogers and Killmonger.

I liked season 1 a lot, but everything I heard about the production was that it was developed for years as a movie that eventually expanded and got fleshed out into a series over the course of a decade of rejection. Granted, sometimes the world-building is the hardest part, and it’s easier to pick something back up…

I can second that. I dusted off my original 1989 Gameboy several years back, and not only did it still work, my save files on all my carts were intact. Some battery corrosion finally killed the Gameboy, but I have no reason to believe the cartridges are any worse for the wear.

It’s like I used to say on Splinter: If you think Republicans hate Democrats, just wait until you meet people who vote democrat.

I absolutely had a convoluted menu order when I worked at Mighty Taco in high school. It was a complete monstrosity of substitutions and ordering specific ingredients on the side that could be reassembled into something that didn’t make you feel like you ate a cheap fast food burrito for “lunch” at 10PM 6 nights a…

It at least makes me wonder if he thought he was really rapping in that cringey birthday party episode.

Yeah. That thing extends fairly rapidly. As far as Christmas gifts go...

Counterpoint: The series should star TWO Commander Shepards. Instead of pointlessly killing and resurrecting the same Shepard at the beginning of ME2, have Cerberus resurrect a fallen renegade war hero who is the sibling of the paragon Shepard we’ve followed through the events of ME1. They each captain their own…

Exactly. And I’m way more likely to buy the next Ratchet when it comes out because it didn’t feel like a grindy chore.