You're old now.

No.

The Last Starfighter- HELL yes. Exactly what you said, CJ.

The Last Starfighter- HELL yes. Exactly what you said, CJ.

You're talking about bad writing.

I know that yesterday I mentioned it about 20 times, but I'm still trying to figure out whether Lost Girl is any good, too.

Branagh did it. Ang Lee did it. Bigelow has done sci-fi and started out with a vampire movie fer chrissakes- I bet she'd be willing to direct the right superhero film.

"what Shaw management myopically wants."

Agreed on all points. Some heroes can pass the mantle, though, and some can't. To my mind, the very essence of Spider-Man is and always has been about Peter. The problem they've run into is that Peter's story missed it's logical endpoint years ago. The smartest guy I ever knew on Spidey said that he should have…

Torres might have been distracting, but she would have been so perfect that I could get behind it. I like Hendricks very much as a performer, but I do think the idea of casting her is based mostly on entirely on her tits. In optimistic moments, I imagine that people are admiring the quiet strength she showed through…

You make great points about casting, but it's a fun puzzle, especially for this character. Besides, we've got no script to pick apart, while there's a wealth of actresses out there to consider. nd who knows, maybe forums like this build up consensus ideas that actually get listened to. I'm half convinced that the…

Whenever this discussion comes up, I think I'm just going to link to this excellent previous discussion, where I think a bunch of people made great contributions and I actually busted out the research that I'm unwilling to do a second time.

Yeah, not really into the fanfic. It's like rap: I know there's a great stuff out there, but I can't be bothered to wade through the piles of shit to get to it, so I wait until someone I trust hands me something with a recommendation. And fanfic that just all about the sex just doesn't appeal to me at all.

As I said above,

You are correct about Byrne- I think he was the first to do that.

I'm actually not attached to Mediterranean. As I've said elsewhere on io9, I think this is one high-profile character who could be plausibly made more "ethnic", and we should grab that opportunity. Themiscyrans, and Amazons at all, are fictional and could look any way (though I prefer to have them at least somewhat…

That's very possible, about the TV show. And sadly, that's pretty consistently borne out by the numbers on her book.

Exactly so.

Royally? Pissed? I think you're confusing another event that happened right after that one...

Hey, that was me!