Given that there is no Superman currently on TV, the Supergirl show is in some ways a throwback to the classic movie, and that the actual forthcoming movie with Lex Luthor in it is probably going to be Zack Snyder's typical standard of quality, I kind of don't mind Max Lord being an obvious Luthor knockoff.

The stuff you love sucks.

It's okay, JJ. The fans will still find a way to blame George Lucas for it. It's probably his fault for selling Star Wars to the wrong multinational media conglomerate or something.

Even the Simpsons' wackiest stories in the early years were still ultimately about the characters and how they stuck together despite their flaws. It wasn't so much the increase in wackiness, but the erosion of its sense of its own characters that caused the show to slide.

I did not know a lot of this and I'm definitely checking it out. Good shit, AV Club.

I think Alice Cooper tends toward conservatism as well, which is weird to think about.

And yet they make up the vast majority of major, minor, tertiary, and background characters in the Star Wars movies.

I'm with Film Crit Hulk on this one. We've had plenty of bad Bond movies, but we have yet to have a bad Bond. Bad Nightfire voice actor notwithstanding.

Remember when they were wading in a sewer full of doo doo? Even though that's been erased from the universe, I bet I could wish it back into existence by remembering hard enough, like in Doctor Who.

Actually, you know what I really miss? Boba Fett. He had a fine backstory in "The Last Man Standing" by Daniel Keys-Moran, which was thrown away so that he could be a sad kid with a missing dad in Attack of the Clones.

Looking back, the Jedi Academy trilogy was corny as fuck. But I guess Kyp Durron was sort of okay.

And it had those creepy title cards that they never did again. Those were great.

Lars and the Replicant

You may be underestimating how racist Lovecraft was, even for his time. Think about how racist the average Internet comments section is, then imagine that it's an internet comments section that wrote science fiction in the early 20th century.

I would not want to live in a world where the Woody award was not dong-shaped.

You're required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point.

Well, watching the Jedi flip and whirl around as they cut shit up was cool for a minute. Then it became obvious that the opponents were all indistinguishable robots—literally just props to be destroyed—and that none of the aforementioned cutting-up-of-shit was ever going to lead to anything beyond that first minute of…

He had a belt that was also a robot!

Up and the Atom!

The podracer is the worst vehicle ever. Hey, kids, know what's fun? A vehicle that's literally impossible for human beings to drive* at greater than 1% of its potential unless they want to kill themselves.