What production costs? DVD/Blu-ray basically uses the same digital movie as streaming does, so they share the very same mastering costs as far as getting the movie into a suitable digital format. It's just a matter of slapping it on the plastic. You know how cheap the discs are that you buy in a store to use with your…

And straight-to-video animated movies, like all the PG-13 titles from DC. It's hard to imagine an animated high-body-count Dark Knight Returns getting play either in movie theaters or on TV.

On the other hand, when you get rating hijinks like those described in "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," sometimes directors have to cut just to get an R or PG-13, and an unrated cut is the only way they can release their original vision.

I don't think this article really gives laserdisc enough (or, well, ANY) credit. A lot of the extra features on DVDs (especially commentary tracks) were prototyped on LD.

Actually not as rare as all that in the last couple of years before DVD. People were finally starting to wake up to the fact that bits of their movies were being chopped off, and lots of movies became available in separate full-frame and widescreen VHS versions. It contributed to the "what are these black bars???"…

I learned so well to read the fine print on the back of the box before ever I bought a DVD…

Yeah, actually, now that I watch it again, it appears Fitz did accidentally open it, while he was leaning against it talking to Simmons. Then Simmons noticed it was open and was just reaching up to close it again when FOOM.

Actually, now that I look at it, it appears Fitz did accidentally open it, while he was leaning against it talking to Simmons. Then Simmons noticed it was open and was just reaching up to close it again when FOOM.

Actually, the Diviner metal and the Terragen mist are two separate elements. As Jiayang explained to Gonzales before she killed him, they made the crystals by melting down a Diviner but weren't able to separate the metal from the mist. It's the mist that empowers, but the metal that kills. If the process of it getting…

Maurissa is married to Jed, so her legal last name is, in fact, Whedon.

Technically, it was a Jed and Maurissa Whedon property. Joss just wrote the pilot/premiere.

Well, what could they do? Any divers they sent in to check it out would crumble into gravel.

I got the feeling that the alien rock was what did the breaching. It could probably always have broken out if it had wanted to, but it hadn't had a suitable candidate come near it yet. It was biding its time.

CGI. Lots and lots of CGI.

Plus, this way everyone gets to argue for months over which third- or fourth-tier Marvel superheroine that nobody but a few comic book geeks have ever heard of she's likely to get turned into.

You know, the whole bit with Coulson's arm getting chopped off is a terrific thematic bookend to what happened with Agent Xena early in the season. At least this time it worked. (And it's kind of sweet that he trusts Skye to drive Lola. He could probably do it one-handed himself, given that it's not his shifting hand…

That would be correct. And his association with her seems to have extended to the rest of them; Gordon pulled him in to scold him for rocking the boat. He asked them to fetch Skye, and Gordon told him they'd do it in their own damned time, thanks.

We've seen Coulson using it a few times. It projects all those lovely Starktech holographic touch display windows that he can swoosh around like he's pretending to be Tony.

I think it's pretty clear he knows the connection, given his interactions with Dr. Crazypants a couple weeks back.

If you watch the video, you'll see that it wasn't. I love how the writers will stick in references even to tiny little obscure bits of the MCU. It makes me feel like Steve Rogers. "I got that reference!"