Not quite a matching name, but whenever I tell people about Jasper Fforde's wonderfully bizarre book "Shades of Grey", I usually need to give a disclaimer.

I wonder (ha!) what Wonder Woman's role is in this movie, and what side she is on. If she's on Batman's side, then she'd have a lot better chance taking Supes down. If she's on Superman's side, now Batman's facing two people with godlike powers. So I have to guess she's either uncertain (and maybe her intervention…

It would make sense if Clark were feeling overwhelmed by the responsibility, and she's trying to console him. In the end she wants her boy to be happy.

And the echo effect showed that mind-to-mind communication is slightly faster than cellphone communication.

Elmo's fine; Elmo taking over half the show…

The TV show Sliders was ruined by cast changes and executive meddling, and I would love to see it remade the way it should have been done. Not "gritty" or "every other world is an apocalypse", just a fun episodic show about "what if".

"Evolved from monkeys? Devolved is more like it!"

True. They might be able to cover that in flashback, slowly revealing Ender's past over the course of the movie. We don't need to see all of Ender's Game to get the basic premise of "genius boy is tricked into committing xenocide".

If anything, I think they should just make a standalone Speaker for the Dead movie. It's so different from Ender's Game that, even if it were marketed as a sequel, it wouldn't really be seen as a sequel by the public, and probably suffer for it.

What percentage of Americans care enough about sports to want to watch them on TV? Is "one in three" really such an impossibly small number?

I think it's sour grapes, even if he isn't aware of it. I'm sure he's convinced himself that other people are not worth his time, that he is alone by choice. I did the same thing as a third grader, though I was a prudish bookworm rather than a hyperactive weirdo. It took a while for me to recognize the underlying…

Instead of solving the medical mystery of the week, he goes around solving people's personal lives. They just can't bear to fire him because he's so darn nice, so they just make sure to give him the really easy cases so he won't kill anyone.

How about a show with a lousy doctor who is happily monogamous?

The more disturbing possibility is that he ISN'T the biggest serial rapist in US history, but he happens to be the most recognizable one. Victims are coming forward now *because* Cosby is in the news, and he's in the news because he's famous. There could be hundreds or thousands of rapists in the US who've done the…

And it's much easier to pay the taxes on a cash prize. When I see someone win a car anymore, I think about the big old bill they're about to get from the IRS.

This isn't pop culture, but in college I took a Music History course taught by a rather pompous professor whom I did not like at all. He had a fondness for Wagner, whose music I didn't particularly care for, and he insisted that I would eventually come around. And once the class was over, I never listened to Wagner…

About the decade? Yes. About the film? No not really, just did a quick Google.

Because that film was released in 2007, which was LAST decade?

How many other sitcoms have done this lied-about-vasectomy gag so far? I can think of Mad About You, Gilmore Girls, and About A Boy.

It's a very optimistic show, especially by today's standards. And that can lead to cheesiness, but it also makes it relaxing to watch: yes there are dangers, but you know everything will work out in the end. I'm a really tense person in real life, so I appreciate a show that doesn't freak me out about the fate of…