Victor Garber played both Jesus and the Devil in hit musicals, @avclub-ffc905126015cdc6758873970fb59828:disqus - that makes him ours.

"But My Baby Sister is Waiting in China - !"

Lincoln ran on the platform that he didn't want slavery to spread, @avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus - and a lot of abolitionists considered him weak and indecisive for that!

Well, that's just it, @avclub-183f50a7700982a3ed18ff6d7a5777bf:disqus - Steven Spielberg did Seaquest: DSV about the same time, and the F/x work on that looked like Seventies-era Live Action Filmation rather than "From the Director of Close Encounters, ET and Jurassic Park"!

I did miss a step then, @avclub-fbae4e327c82a0c961afeaf619c42176:disqus , because I don't remember that.

Following Reconstruction, so the late 1870s, @avclub-eb058ced22520c3a8f4e4a6e2fb16403:disqus - when Rutherford B. Hayes was ::cough!:: elected over Samuel Tilden. (Hayes's "victory" was the Bush v. Gore of the 19th Century.) Hayes ran partly on a platform of "normalizing" relations with the South - which meant…

Exactly, @avclub-eb058ced22520c3a8f4e4a6e2fb16403:disqus ! She's a crack historian, and she's parroting the same kind of Elementary School American History you don't have to even be a historian to know better than - you just have to have watched Ken Burns's The Civil War during one of PBS's endless pledge drives!

The more interesting take on Flynn's plans would have been had he saved Lincoln's life - because think of all the things that would have changed: Reconstruction wouldn't have been nearly so harsh to Southern sensibilities, thus limiting the power of the KKK at the time and Jim Crow laws later; Lincoln might have…

Which is funny, @taeralasfer:disqus , since National City always looked more like Vancouver than Los Angeles to me.

And I'm going to be that guy to that guy, @avclub-c64946186dfe08de39f4567c68325fb7:disqus - Superman was, at least initially, a Seventies series as the first movie came out in 1978, a year and change after Star Wars took the world by storm.

::Brainiac Five is slicking back his blonde hair, making sure his sensors are nicely shined up….::

No, he's more like JLU Batman - still broody, but more of a team player and not without a dry sense of humor, @avclub-c404a5adbf90e09631678b13b05d9d7a:disqus .

I weirdly imagine it's kind of like New York City for some people (like me) - dirty, dangerous, overpriced, crime-ridden, and you just feel alive being there, @adamfrey:disqus .

Different dimension, @AmaltheaElanor:disqus !

My wife and I were at a big Con over the Summer where some television movie and performers, including Peter Facinelli, were appearing, @disqus_x70BgLmL6W:disqus. While I have mostly fond memories of just about everybody I met, Facinelli was mostly on his phone, chain-smoking, or being obnoxious to fans and colleagues…

For the time they were actually impresssive, @avclub-183f50a7700982a3ed18ff6d7a5777bf:disqus - after all, this was Superman on Television when I was a kid!

Fewer people pissing the work because it costs less, @horsesays:disqus .

Lane Clark, @avclub-e029983fbef55ed54719c62b57d1134e:disqus ?

There's being a sleaze, and there's inconsistent characterization, @avclub-ce6c92303f38d297e263c7180f03d402:disqus .Max Lord was Lex Luthor Lite one episode, and Winn Only Richer the next.

I don't think so in Facinelli's case, @disqus_KMKe0tqoWs:disqus ? The time I heard him get asked about Max Lord and the upcoming season of Supergirl, he shrugged and said, "We'll see - I'm really not thrilled about Vancouver, but…."