Vietnam was the first "television" war. Americans got to watch some of the carnage first hand, and saw nightly death tolls (along with footage of body bags and coffins). It's a little harder to understand now, since everything is so immediate. But believe me, in the 60s it was revolutionary stuff.

Hey, show some respect. That's Ron Howard's kid brother!

It's also worth noting that Kirk's bluff in Corbomite was essentially the Mutually Assured Destruction gambit, with which every duck and cover kid would have been familiar. The Enterprise played the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

My favorite part of the old Super Friends cartoons would come when some evil force was threatening the Earth, and the Friends would divvy up search duties. Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman and Robin would divide up the various continents, and Aquaman would invariably say "And I'll take the oceans!" 3/4 of the…

Roger Ebert once pointed out that a superhero essentially IS his/her origin story. Once you get past that, there isn't a whole lot to differentiate them. As the various superhero movies move towards a kind of sameness singularity, I keep coming back to Ebert's observation.

Had it not been for Burton's Planet of the Apes, we would have had Tim Roth as Snape. But I love your idea.

As long as Stephanie "Freckles" Beatriz's contract allows for her appearance in any Pee Wee sequels, I'm happy.

I love Collyer's transition from Clark Kent's voice when he says, "this is a job…FOR SUPERMAN!"

I honestly don't think anyone has ever bested the Fleischer cartoons. I love Chris Reeve and the latter-day animated series versions, but the Fleischers are still my favorites.
Incidentally, I don't think people give enough credit to Bud Collyer. The guy did Superman's voice for nearly 30 years, from radio and the…

But will he be reborn as someone interesting?

Pretty much. But the guy playing Lucifer and the woman playing his chief torturer are so much fun, it's still a pleasant distraction. The show's at its best when the infernal characters "Hulk out," in a manner of speaking. But it isn't really "good" in any normal sense of the word.

My god! The colors!

Once again raising the question: why the heck doesn't WB just turn its live-action superhero universe over to the animation guys?

Hey! I grew up in Manatee County! But, well, yeah…..

As a wise man once said, when you're trying to get out of a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

I'm glad to read Joe's take on the movie and his character because he really "got it." His refusing to come down to his birthday party could have come across as really campy, but it played very sweetly, as did his whole connection to Pee Wee. His performance was the most pleasant surprise to me.

Correction. He was the only reason to watch the show. Albeit a damn good one.

But to make up for it, they bring him back (sort of) again….and again….and again….

But the adaptation would be 30 hours long. And that's not really an exaggeration. If he can stretch 300 pages into 10 hours….

They would have to get someone like Benioff and Weiss, who understand where (and whom) to cut. Even with that, as I note below, they'd still have to do about an hour of exposition right off the bat to get everyone up to speed. And after it was done, the hardcore Dune fans would still hate it.