Indeed. The insufferable trend of fan theories is the logical outcome of death of the author, often propagated by this very site.

Oh yes indeed. The TAT FB page was constantly bombarded with all caps posts from some guy who did makeup on the original show, and kept claiming that Roddenberry was a conservative at heart. The guy who played Captain Klaa in The Final Frontier also let his pro-Trump feelings be known.

This doesn't surprise really surprise me. Breitbart has been trying to claim all kinds of films as inherently conservative for years. They spent weeks claiming The Hunger Games was a metaphor for the evils of Obama when the first movie came out, only for Suzanne Collins to loudly assert otherwise. The recent Trek…

I could easily say much the same about Returns, but each to their own. I generally think those four Burton/Schumacher films are all hugely flawed to one degree or another, but I personally enjoy Forever the most.

I'm not criticising your opinion of the film, btw, only curious. I can certainly see where you're coming from.

It made more money than Returns (which was way down on the first Burton Batman) so I think all involved can be forgiven for thinking audiences wanted more of the campy approach.

Also, the whole Penguin-running-for-Mayor plotline was lifted from that sixties series that Burton claimed to have utter disdain for.

I've been wondering if they're spreading the cast out a bit more because a full season of filming (mostly outdoors) in Georgia's heat and humidity is so physically demanding. Frank Darabont made it sound like sheer hell in his recent deposition.

12.Oz Mouse was crap, but at least had some vague ambition to it. The absolute worst animated shows of the last decade for me have been Adult Swim's lazy, mean-spiritied Titan Maximum and FOX's Bordertown (comprised of the floor sweepings of Family Guy and American Dad's writers rooms).

Crippling xenophobia instead.

In Queensland that same age is about 65-70. It's Australia's nursing home.

Which version did you see? The original Australian cut, or the trimmed and redubbed Miramax edit, with all the squarely Aussie local references replaced with more US-friendly equivalents?

When Working Dog gets it right, they turn out classics (The Castle, Utopia, The Dish), but when they get it wrong (anyone remember Funky Squad?) the results are truly hideous.

Sad thing is, there are plenty of quality animation companies in Australia.

The GC is rip for satire, but I didn't even make it past the first 30 seconds of the first episode.

*nods* Better made than their usual output, though.

I've only seen the pilot. With the caveat of the ludicrous zombie baby, it was less terrible than anything else I've seen of The Asylum's. It's got some veteran TV genre scribes in its writing staff, too.

As the one remaining "lost" episode is the original take on Fugitive Alien II, I now have He Tried to Kill Me With a Forklift playing over and over in my head.

It's okay logging in to the website, but the app just plain doesn't work (at least for me), and keeps sending a useless "activation email" that doesn't activate the app, but sends me to the website.

Mouchette and Joan of Arc are both slit-your-wrists miserable.