Yeah, you're right! I'm gonna go to my room and think about what I've done! No more jokin' around on the internet for me!

Ahhhh I think you're exactly right.

Yeah, heck, even Sherlock Holmes was a master of Bartitsu (or, at least, a misspelled version of it).

I enjoy those stories a lot as well, and I really wish more people understood what made them work. The writers got to a point where they were well aware that it was pointless to challege Superman's POWER directly- what they needed to do was come up with mental and (more importantly IMO) emotional challenges for him to…

I don't think this is a particularly new trend at all. Remember Superman's famous opening of "faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings with a single bound!" That used to be about the limits of his power, but nowadays it's...a bit of an understatement, to say the least.

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Here in Seattle a few years back the city constructed a new trolley system mostly with tourists in mind. It travels about a mile around South Lake Union so, of course, pretty much immediately various folks began producing shirts reading "COME RIDE THE S.L.U.T.!"

Yeah, "retiring" from the Judges isn't something I'd do totally voluntarily, I think. Long Walk ahoy!

Oh is that a real thing? Haha I was just making a little joke. I'll have to check that out!

I love how Julie Kavner put on a bit of a French accent for Marge's calling Maggie's name. "Ma-GEE? Ma-GEEE?"

Wow I don't even remember Eva Green in that. Yeesh. It's basically a total blank spot in my memory, with two exceptions- seeing Sam Jackson dress up like a Nazi (?!?) and that weird foot-head henchman guy. Everything else has melted away because time can be merciful.

The comics themselves kind of hop around in time, so it's possible some of the stories will be set prior to the first movie. Josh Brolin is apparently playing Dwight (Clive Owen's character from the first film) in this one, which kind of implies to me that at least some of it will be flashbacks. In the comics, Dwight…

Well gosh, thanks!

Yeah, I've been 99% sure Redford is addressing Winter Soldier there ever since I saw that in a trailer. HOW COULD HE NOT BE A BAD GUY

Judging from that trailer...it's gonna be worth the wait.

Ah, definitely not a term I was familiar with in that context.

I think you're a little off-base here, but not too far off. To the best of my knowledge, the "gaze" is a philosophical concept rather than a poetical one and generally refers to a relationship of power differential between the one who is watching and the one who is being watched (incidentally, the word "blazon" is the…

So this is basically the medieval version of WWII bat bombs. Sounds like it worked out about as well, too. I don't understand how otherwise-intelligent people think you can accurately predict an animal's movements and motivations once you've set it on fire or attached bombs to it. Just a wildly bad idea. It's pretty…

It's not confirmed, but I also kind of think he'll wind up being the Skull. Red Skull is too good a villain to lose after just one movie.

I think the thing I have a hard time reconciling with that casting swap is Indy's status as a professor- Harrison Ford was able to switch remarkably effortlessly between the rugged adventurer Indiana Jones and the somewhat dorky, nebbish Professor Henry Jones Jr., and I just can't conceive of Tom Selleck teaching that…

They were babies! Adorable little babies.