I'd say more Incredible Hulk, which was a downright abysmal film. But either way at least a mediocre Marvel movie's over and done in two hours.

A universal problem for the Netflix Marvel shows is they absolutely have more episodes than they know what to do with - I assumed Daredevil was going to have like, cases of the week, and it really could have used that.

It's also probably better racially these days too, with the Latin American Ghost Rider, Ming Na et al.

Is Legion really a superhero show though? I mean I know it's set in a superhero universe, but it's a show about a guy whose mental illness is also warping all sense of reality around him - he's both the protagonist and the problem.

I don't know. I only watch Supergirl when it comes to the DC CW shows, but I watched the episodes of the other shows when Supergirl did a crossover, and I had no idea what was going on like every few minutes.

Jessica Jones had the best ending of any of these shows and the only like, climactic final fight worth a damn, though.

I was very enthusiastic when Melissa Rosenberg was given Jessica Jones, as she did a lot of the Good Dexter, and very wary when Scott Buck was given Iron Fist, as he did a lot of the Bad Dexter.

I don't think that's hypocritical, in that I assume they also have a problem with more recent casting where non-Hispanic actors played Hispanic roles.

Even if the movies weren't worthy of rediscovery, they'd be interesting to read about. I still remember reading a book about early Russian film history that took a chapter or two to excoriate the early 1950s as the low point in the history of Russian film (with films that in some cases were literally taped plays with…

I'd take the exact opposite tack: Charlton Heston is far more interesting for his cinematic performances, with his orations in rich, deep baritone in everything from dystopian science fiction to old time Bible epics to the noirish intensity of Touch of Evil, than his politics - there are dozens of people who've loudly…

It just felt like the only way to end that scene after all that build up and heroic music.

Me neither, though I got to the start of season three before I called it quits. It's a show of its time and that's that.

Good! They had one big name local performer (Celine Byrne, who sang Micaëla) so they might repeat that on your end.

I read the first dozen Rat Queens. I enjoyed it, but the setting being 'generic D&D setting' was part of the appeal - colourful characters that might be someone's RPG group in a setting not unlike any RPG setting.

Saw an opera recently myself - Moscow State's Carmen. After their La Boheme performed here earlier this year, seems like they're gonna be doing that regularly in Dublin. Both were nice productions of classic operas at a good venue, very accessibly done I thought.

Hoisted by our own petards.

I loved that. I don't think we'll ever get a better adaptation of Aristophanes (in part because his plays were dense with at the time current allusions - the Pelopennsian War was ongoing when he wrote Lysistrata, after all.)

No no, that's Pasolini's Madea. Common mistake.

This has mostly reminded me I want to get to watching more opera movies this year - not recorded stage productions (though those are nice, and quite easy to get to in theatres these days) but cinema, which is hardly as prolific or as high profile as musical films, but there's more than a few examples (Zeffirelli's are…

For International Women's Day I saw Women of Ryazan (co-directed by one of the first women directors, a late 1920s Soviet film with a bitter ending and indictment of gender mores) and Madchen In Uniform (also co-directed by a woman with an all women cast and dealing with lesbianism at a boarding school, early 1930s…