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He looks like a CW-ified Dean Cain.

… Huh. That actually worked pretty well. (Though I pity poor William Shatner for having had to do Direct TV spots for a living…)

The Evil Dead movies are all so ridiculously different from one another that it's really hard to choose a favorite for me, since the decision is like comparing apples, oranges, and bananas. So I just decided that I love all three of them equally, each for completely different reasons.

I like to think of it as the most ridiculously expensive pop culture experiment in history. This many years later, will anyone still care? And will it still make money, either way?

Berlanti and co. have already demonstrated (in particular with their terrible "For the Girl Who Has Everything" episode of Supergirl) that they are absolutely shite at directly adapting famous comic stories onto their shows. I wouldn't expect too much from their interpretation of Flashpoint, either.

Well… I hate to be a pedant, but a few things that seemed pretty self-evident to me were:

I think they're going to suggest that the suit contains the massive electrical discharges he creates when he moves. That's probably why it's criss-crossed with wires.

Just because it's a desperate attempt to curry audience favor doesn't mean it didn't work. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

After seventy five years in the comics, Wonder Woman is getting her own big budget movie. And it looks pretty damn good, to boot.

There's a palpable sense of desperation in the fact that DC posted its ENTIRE Comic-Con presentation— including the tease of its big, giant, can't-be-a-flop-or-Warner-Bros.-is-screwed tentpole Justice League— online the minute after it was shown at Hall H (glad I didn't buy a ticket this year…). They're practically

The Franklin was awesome. I loved that it was somehow both clunkier and sleeker than the NX-01 Enterprise (a design I was always OKAY with, but is easily one of my least favorite Star Trek ships).

Hell yeah! Those are some pretty awesome calendars.

Jesus… How many times have you seen the movie to CATCH all that? It just came out yesterday!

… Except Kirk didn't LIVE to old age. He died in what must have been his sixties at most, fighting Malcolm McDowell with Captain Picard at the climax of Star Trek Generations. William Shatner is now two decades older than Captain Kirk was when he died.

As a Star Trek fan (and a genre fan in general), I knew the movie wasn't going to end with the Enterprise gone for good, but the reveal of the new Enterprise-A kind of left me cold at the end.

The female alien is actually the third remaining crew member of the Franklin. The second is the one that Jalaya gets into a fight with at the end of act two (the guy who killed her father), and the first was Krall.

… Well, it wouldn't have made any sense for Spock to have a new recording of Shatner for nuSpock to find, since Shatner is now WAAAAAY older than he was when he died in Generations. Kinda hard to sell that logically (no pun intended).

"I don't want to talk about time travel because if we start talking about it then we're going to be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws."

Well, there IS the fact that everybody I know keeps asking me if I play it, questioning me when I say I'm not too into it, and acting like I'm some sort of culturally-deprived luddite when I tell them that, yeah, I've played for a couple of weeks and I'm only a level three. It's off-putting.

I actually would have killed to see a T3 that made Arnold the VILLAIN again, ironically turning his heroic-Terminator image on its head by going back to his roots with the character.