Lewis is still touring — I saw him last year at BB Kings in NYC. He needs help getting to the piano and can't really stand up when playing any more, and his Louisiana drawl has gotten completely impenetrable. But holy shit the man can still play.

Every time I feel sorry for myself about NY state's insanely dumb blue laws, I cheer myself up by saying "well, at least I don't live in Pennsylvania any more."

So is any vodka if you put it though enough Brita filters.

Sigh. Thanks for reminding me that I live in one of the states where Costco can't sell booze.

^ This.

Damn you and your "facts"! Still, I'll hold out hope that Defenders won't suck and that lessons will be learned from that.

I'm not usually a fan of the "repost twitter burn as content" story, but in this case we'll allow it: this was nearly nonstop genius.

Temuera Morrison

^^^ YES, THIS. GO THE FULL KIRBY. Own the space weirdness. Power dots. Winged helmets. Metal men speaking in ALL CAPITALS. Bring on BLASTARR for a cameo. There is no way it could possibly be worse than the existing shitpile of FF adaptions and it might actually be… god forbid… fun.

More likely they saw "Dexter writer delivered scripts on time, show on budget, ratings stayed high despite critical drubbing." Or in shorter terms: $

Oooh, I'm embarrassed to have forgotten them. (I always forget that the rotting Master in Traken was a different actor, not Ainley under makeup.)

Actually it might not be — the NoI tends to very much soft-pedal the "white people created by Jakub" thing these days. They may even have officially renounced it; they've been generally trying to remove the major doctrinal differences between themselves and orthodox Sunni Islam, and that was one of the ones that made…

1. 90 seconds of Derek Jacobi (because come ON)
2. Delgado
3. Gomez
4. Simm during "Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords" (yes fight me)
5. Ainley
6. Eric Roberts
7. Simm during… all of his other episodes, really.

Well, yes? I've got a full time job, a family, and other hobbies to pay attention to. Marvel isn't paying me to watch this stuff, it's an investment of my limited time I choose to make or not make. Even an hour spent watching the pilot is time I could spend playing with my kid or writing my own stories or…

It would probably also help with the scheduling problems. If Mahershala Ali hadn't had to check out halfway through Luke Cage S1, that would have been a substantially better show.

The best sign for hope that we have right now is that The Defenders is only going to be 8 episodes. Maybe it was just because they had to accommodate a lot more actors' schedules, but I'm hoping someone noticed that 12 episodes was at least 4 too long for each of these series.

Ouch. I guess I don't have to feel even a little conflicted about skipping this then.

I'm crossing my fingers: it could obviously turn out to be a crappy exploitative mess. But hope springs eternal.

Six months later, the trailer for "Atomic Blonde" seems to suggest that we were not the only people pondering this concept.

I'm also betting that we get protomolecule subroutine investigator Miller either far earlier than he shows up in the books or… not at all, depending on Thomas Jane's schedule.