Doesn't really matter. The comics are irrelevant to the public perception of established superheroes. Only the film / TV versions have a major impact. So…. Batman will always be Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man will always be Peter Parker and Thor will always be male.

Gracepoint wasn't "horrific" for someone who had never seen Broadchurch. It was solidly made and followed the same plotline. If it had caught a wide U.S. audience then its existence would have been more than justified since a relatively miniscule number of American viewers saw the original. It was only pointless for…

I doubt it. The Mistress/Master is the villain after all, not exactly a poster child for warm and fuzzy.

Ummm. She basically saved the Doctor's entire existence and sacrificed her own life several times over while cleansing his timeline of the Great Intelligence in Name of the Doctor. The Doctor still owes her quite a bit., probably more than he's ever owed any companion..

I think we were MEANT to call it initially then doubt ourselves for picking the seemingly too obvious solution. Moffat is a big Who fan himself so he knew that fans would make the Missy-Mistress-Master connection right away, then move on to more complex and unlikely speculation.

Actually Night of the Doctor only made canon the names of his companions not necessarily every event that occurred in BF and the novels. After all, even the BF/novels/radio plays, etc. featuring existing companons and Doctors from the broadcast program itself are still not canon or considered binding on the shows…

I can't wade through all of the previous comments so this has probably been mentioned…… Doctor Fate's helmet sitting on a random table, too cool! This didn't make it to Stray Observations? I know the Spectre will be showing up but I haven't seen anything about DF/Nabu. As far as the smoking thing, there was a shot…

A small and futile point but it still annoys me after all these years that Marvel exploits the name "Captain Marvel" for a forgettable character while the original iconic character is forced to go by "Shazam". I guess it's all in the execution, but was there a big demand for a Marvel "Captain Marvel" movie? I'm not…

A show which is a pale imitation of the Simpsons crossing over with the Simpsons which is already a pale imitation of itself

I seem to be in the minority about the ending of Goodbyeee. The episode was fantastic but the final scene stuck out like a sore thumb. Blackadder is one of my favorite series of all time but it never earned the right to such a straightforward piece of drama. It was always an absurdist comedy and the characters were…

Assuming we'll see a lot of cuts of Constantine crushing a used butt under his shoe and closeups of overflowing ashtrays.

I'm guessing that since the series began with the passing of Prohibition that it will end with its repeal in 1933. If there's any interest in rough verisimilitude they may want to echo Nucky Johnson's actual imprisonment in the late '30s.

Sorry, "accents".

The modern American accent hadn't really developed at that time. What Jamie Bell is doing is a modified English West Country accent which is thought to be the basis for the American accent. You'll also hear characters in 'John Adams' using a similar accent. Caleb Brewster is the one who seems to have an…