It's a good point. But the Lone Ranger isn't actually a pulp character; he doesn't have his origin in print, but rather in early radio. I wouldn't really expect to see io9 covering a Little Orphan Annie movie, either (although perhaps you could make a case for that, given that it might have had more of a touch of…

If a Lone Ranger movie is "genre" enough for io9 to be covering it, then I want io9 to start covering "Hell on Wheels". (If you need an actor-related reason, then just say it's because of Colm Meaney's and Chris Heyerdahl's extensive SF acting backgrounds.)

The thing is... I agree that her character on Community doesn't seem like it would fit in with the CA:WS film. But, I also haven't seen her ever play anything else. And prior to CA:TFA, a lot of people were dubious about Chris Evans as Cap, just because they had seen him in roles where he came across as kind of an…

I cannot BELIEVE that nobody has done this yet... I had to search around a bit to find a good representative picture from an era in which ol' Kurt was FUN and SEXY rather than angsty, but there you go.

People who grew up on Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy representations of elves in the U.S. had already encountered "big-eared" elf designs well before Record of Lodoss War came out in the mid-80s. Obviously, you're correct that the common early visualization of Tolkien-like elves featured pointy ears about the…

Agreed, mythologically. ;-) But in the Marvel comics, they appear to use "Gaea". I don't really know why.

Take this with the usual grain of salt, but I have heard from... a source, that we should not necessarily expect the set-up in the MCU to precisely follow what we expect from either the comics, or other sources such as actual Norse mythology.

He isn't forefronted in every episode, but he's an extremely major character and gets a lot of plot devoted to him. And he seems to have a ball with the role.

But both Akira and Iron Sky seem to be defacements, no? They don't appear to completely destroy the Moon either.

Part of me can sort of imagine it. Because RDJ can make anyone or anything look good.

If you're thinking of the female character with the dragonfly wings in X-Men: First Class — that wasn't Janet Pym / Wasp. That was a character named Angel. (Which is gloriously confusing, since an original member of the X-Men team was code-named Angel, but that was a blond guy with angel-wings named Warren…

Nah, if it's really, really dark enough, then you can't miss it.

I'm not sure if this will help, but I always thought it kind of tasted like what we call "cream soda" here, which is sort-of vanilla-flavored? Except I think Dr. Pepper also has some additional flavor notes; it's been far too long since I've tasted it to say more than that.

I knew it because of the Cadfael books.

I feel the need to be pedantic and note that the correct quote from Buckaroo Banzai is, "No matter where you go, there you are."

Speaking as someone who has been a dinosaur fan since she was five, and for whom dinosaurs were featherless for about 30 years — finding out that some dinosaurs (therapods specifically) had feathers made them EVEN COOLER and more BADASS. I love this concept. The only reason I want to see a Jurassic Park 4 is for them…

I could have sworn, in the promo that came out a while ago, that when they showed Giancarlo Esposito riding in, he was carrying a gun (like, a rifle or shotgun). Which I immediately noted, saying, "Huh!", because prior to that I was assuming they were operating on Dies the Fire principles, which would have meant no…

I don't know, I think the pilot of SG-1 gets a sort of extra handicap, because it wasn't just a pitch for a new show — it had to function as a bridge from an existing 2-hour movie, and remind you of all the elements from that movie, resolve the essential "problem" of the movie (Daniel Jackson was left on Abydos), and…

It's astounding. I assure you, from having rewatched it recently, that you have probably forgotten some of the craziest costumes. (They aren't pictured above. No, not even Jenna's.)

It's probably hyperbole to say that if SyFy goes that dark with a new B7, it's a mistake, because yes, BSG was very popular.