The first season and much of the second of the original Perry Mason was based on Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels. Gardner of course was a lawyer. An interesting aspect — since novels written over a number of decades were the source — is that sometimes Perry was depicted doing shady things to protect and clear his…

Would like to note, historically speaking, Edward G. Robinson. Typecast as a gangster, he still put on major performances in other genres - even comedies - and was constantly denied an Oscar nomination. Double Indemnity, where he played the good guy insurance partner to Fred MacMurray’s scheming lead role, should have…

“If you BELIEVE in freedom of speech as a crucial democratic principle and not just a matter of point scoring for your ‘side,’ then you should believe everyone gets to have their voice heard—and yes, I mean EVERYONE.”

Free speech does not mean you are entitled to a platform. Free speech does not mean you are entitled to a platform. Free speech does not mean you are entitled to a platform. Free speech does not mean you are entitled to a platform. Free speech does not mean you are entitled to a platform. Free speech does not mean you…

I actually am somewhat sympathetic to this p.o.v. Mildly sanding over the racism of the James Bond books doesn’t actually solve the problem within the books, which cannot really be “solved.” I mean, there were calls, not by liberals, but by conservatives, to remove the N-word from “Huck Finn.” Which would have the…

I doubt the estate is as concerned with which option is more dangerous as it is which one will generate more revenue.

“When your mother Ungoliant was your age she had destroyed the two trees of Valinor. What have you done? Just hung out in your goth lair hoping for orcs and things to wander in?”

A contemporary reboot of a fictional film that inspired the meta-fictional backstory of character of a previous film of which this film is both a spin-off AND a canon in-universe artifact.

see! i didn’t even watch the show

Not to mention a complete misunderstanding of exponential growth. Halving the population isn’t going to do jack squat in the long term, nor would doubling resources for that matter.

No, you guys aren’t commenting on lack of proofreading.

although judging by the end credits, which mention “principle photography,” it still wasn’t enough to hire a proofreader.

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes too, the classic version. *chef’s kiss*

It’s like that time Willy Hughes was killed in that car crash except it wasn’t a crash and he didn’t die and also there was no car. 

STBs?  I don’t believe in them.

It was always a very weird assumption to think that there was a non-trivial number of people who weren’t interested in a streaming service that had a huge number of the most critically-acclaimed cable TV shows of all time, a reasonably good selection of recent theatrically-released movies, a good library of classic…

I’m with you, actually. Historically, the rainbow of rings has been second only to the Speed Force in its capacity to generate Plot Stupidity. You’d think that a universe-spanning organization of do-gooders would be able to find plenty of interesting stories to tell without that nonsense.

I only accept a green ring who’s weakness is......wood

I took a flyer on Paramount+ because I wanted to check out that Evil show. It’s pretty good. But what I really liked was Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Boy, that’s pretty entertaining. I was not expecting that at all. How ‘bout them Gorn huh?? I have zero interest in Discovery. I tried to watch Picard and I didn’t…

If it was truly “once and for all,” they’d recast Amanda Waller. As it is, it looks like Gunn is planning to keep whatever he likes about the DCEU and will retcon everything else. I think it’s worth noting that Crisis on Infinite Earths largely did the same thing by “hard resetting” Superman and Wonder Woman, but…