I loved the nods to the ‘78 Superman movie, and that they were nods without being total recreations (like the helicopter scene). I found this episode utterly delightful.

My recollection when they announced scaling back on recaps is that they’d be doing season premieres and finales, and regular recaps of very popular shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. I have seen some season premiere recaps recently, but not subsequent episodes.

It’s on my workout playlist.

I was going to say “the ghost of Robert Holmes or GTFO” but I’d be cool with either Dicks (I still have made love for both The Brain of Morbius and The Horror of Fang Rock) or Aaronovitch. I recall Aaronovitch’s stuff being among the more watchable stories from the late ‘80s era.

Right now, the prior season of a CW show appears on Netflix right around the time that the current season premieres (although there’s a new deal that will have them showing up right after the season ends starting with the 2016-2017 season). The current season of Legends premieres next week, so it should show up on…

I was pleasantly surprised by Dracula Untold. The ending kind of left me wanting a modern-day sequel.

Arrow of Holding

I’d guess since approximately the mid-80s when Shane Black wrote the Lethal Weapon script.

I don’t have any desire for that level of realism, either. I just think it would be easy for people to talk themselves into a level of comfort with it when they are told that it’s a simulation and no actual harm is being done. Human beings are talented at rationalization.

Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright, managing to be both a comforting and unsettling presence) says that the park hasn’t had a critical failure in “over 30 years.”

How is it different than playing a video game like Grand Theft Auto? It’s wish fulfillment without consequences. I can totally buy that people would both want to do it and admit that they want to do it.

And George Lazenby was Jarod’s dad.

That would actually work if it were Tatiana Maslany.

With that username, you’ll fit right in with Seattle.

I moved from Ohio to the Pacific Northwest back to Ohio and ... dear god, whyyyyy?

It’s supposed to be 89 in Ohio today.

Good moaning.

We did get the second half of Season 7 that year (although I don’t blame anyone for blocking that from memory). Also a special about each Doctor on BBC America and an airing of one of that Doctor’s classic serials in the weeks leading up to the 50th. It seemed to me like BBC America was wall-to-wall Doctor Who for a…

Now flashing back to being a college freshman and seeing this at a movie theater in Boston with my roommates, where it was introduced by Walter Koenig. I won a snack voucher or something for correctly answering a trivia question about what the 1960s guard orders from the replicator when beamed up to the Enterprise in…

I vaguely recall that the ratings went up a couple of years ago when Padalecki started a Twitter war with Justin Bieber fans. The show actually seemed to have had a creative comeback in Season 11 — not to the highs of Season 5, but much more watchable than it had been for a couple of years. The “Baby” episode…