You've had better luck with novels than I have.

It made me uncomfortable, but more in that I-think-I'm-being-pandered-to way that timeshare salespeople make you feel.

The middle class was in the best shape in the 80's of any decade I remember being alive.

Voltron got blown up before the lions could join up to form Voltron.

There was a moral? I don't remember a moral.

We were all going there, you got there first.

Yes, but only because of the lag between the turbolasers demand for increased power and the buildup of exhaust gas pressure to drive the turbine providing increased intake pressure.

No dude. They're beaming to Tosche Station to pick up some dilithium converters. Totally different.

it's a very different book. I read it a long time ago, but as I recall, it's a smaller and more focused story than American Gods

and Anansi Boys, presumably

Ha :-) I was thinking "most effective" in terms of making sense as as character, not like the best at accomplishing her in-fiction goals.

Accurate.

But Falcor is possibly the nerdiest dragon of all.

That's why I found the world-building the most satisfying thing about Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon. Because while still being recognizably fantasy, it wasn't a faded replica of Tolkein and his northern European influences.

More like

And like Capaldi and Karen Gillan, she's been on the show already.

Goddammit, I was not expecting that to be an NSFW link.

Or possibly the brawler companion who handles the punching aliens part of the job.

Yeah - the Master generally suffers from being kind of a Draco Malfoy, in that he's set up as the protagonists' equal and opposite, when in reality he's basically a fuck-up.

Something I kind of like about Daredevil is that, while he has superpowers, they aren't like flashy or noticeable, so over the years characters who can replicate the basic "dude who fights good" power set (Spider-Man, Iron Fist) have been able to fill in.