Starting with Anakin as an adult who’s already a talented fighter pilot fixes all the issues. He’s someone who’s already had success, but discovers he can have yet more by learning to use the force. It also helps make Yoda’s “he’s too old to begin training” from Empire make a bit more sense than the “you have to start…

I feel much the same about Flash. I really liked it when it was the “fun” arrowverse show. Barry’s endless optimism was refreshing, until it stopped being so endless. The upshot is that we get the eternally sunny Ray Palmer with his best bro Nate.

In this age of anthology series, I’d like a Global Frequency adaptation. Not the leaked pilot that was turning it into an X-Files-esque procedural (though that would have probably been a decent enough show)

They’re both really silly? Because Nolan’s world of Batman is very silly. I don’t think it knows it’s silly, but it’s very silly. Now, if you excuse me, my fellow ferry passengers and I are going to resolve the prisoner’s dilemma and demonstrate how cooperation is the superior strategy.

Jason figured it out? Jason!? This is a new low.

LoT is the only one I’ve stuck with. It’s crazy how it went from the absolute worst of the bunch to the best.

Mediocrity is the CW’s standard, isn’t it? Oh, there are points where Arrow and Flash flirted with being something better than mediocre, but these days, only LoT goes out of its way to be something different (usually great, sometimes bad, never boring).

There’s not that many episodes where they go and get involved with a historical figure. And not every historical figure episode has this bad trait. In “Rosa”, for example, she was doing what she would have done without our characters there- they just needed to be there to make sure it went off like history recorded it…

> Doctor Who’s twelfth season will include an episode in which Mary Shelley is inspired to write Frankenstein after meeting the Cybermen.

The founding principles of the London Metropolitan police force, created to address concerns about the dangers of police- no one in London wanted to deal with anything like the French gendarmes. Robert Peel laid out his nine principles of policing, which the US could do with a solid dose of:

And yes, I recognize that the police forces in the US have never adopted the Peelian principles. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t.

> To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

Oh, boy, I literally just watched Cat Ballou for the first time this week, and… I’m gonna have to give you a “hol’ up”. As a historical artifact, it’s an interesting piece, but it’s so busy going for really tired jokes- jokes that were tired in the 60s, mind you- that the charm never really gets past it. There’s a lot…

Wait, with that premise, can’t we just do a Kraven standalone movie where he’s an anti-hero? It’s 2019, and I want more movies about rich assholes being brutally murdered.

My wishlist for S4: I want Joyce to do a T2 Sarah Connor turn.

I mean, he’s obviously the American in the Russian prison.

A sex scene which is hilarious setup with a bizarre foreplay involving animal crackers, if memory serves.

“Simic Hybrid? What’s that? Oh, this reminds me of the campaign where the DM said ‘everything breeds with everything in this world’, so I was a half-octopus sahuagin mutant, which meant (in water) I had four claw attacks, a bite attack, two tentacle attacks, and two rake attacks. My only mistake was playing a…

It was pretty obvious it was going to happen. Still sad, though, as one more S3 outing for Halloween would have been amazing.

I always laugh when people talk about Mr. Nobody’s power set. “Oh, he can do this, and that, and this other thing, and he’s so crazy powerful.”