I think the most likely thing is some sort of accident involving Barry, that results in Barry's powers being split with/transferred to Wally. If they go the latter route, they could get bonus points by temporarily depriving Barry of the use of his legs, so that he has to be Wally's wheelchair-bound mentor for a while.

What does corporations caring about him have to do with anything? The reason I care is that Doom is a great character, who could be great onscreen. Marvel has the potential to use him well, and a ton of stories featuring the character that they could tell if they only had the rights to him. Given that unmemorable…

It truly is a tall order. Even Watchmen didn't actually do scene-for-scene, although it came pretty close. It strikes me that you'd have to have a different standard of "faithful" for something relatively contained like Watchmen or 300 or Sin City (two more fairly faithful and successful adaptations) than you would…

Right now the FF franchise is looking up wistfully at a life of mediocrity. Heck, in 2015 mediocrity seems to earn you all-time box office records.

The answer's right there in the name!

The first X-Men movie? Other than the organic web shooters, the original Raimi Spider-Man is pretty faithful to the source material, down to the initial attempt to become a professional wrestler before turning his attention to crime fighting.

Yeah, Jesse L. Martin's only 46 years old. I guess it's technically possible that Joe could have a teen grandson and a daughter only a few years older, but that'd be some rough storytelling. Plus, the whole character dynamic where Iris and Barry are the center of Joe's life comes off differently if he has other kids…

I suspect that when most people think about the Flash, they remember Barry's name from the comics, but Wally's personality from the cartoon. They don't get that those are two separate characters.

Can a modeling show be about anything but exploitation? Of all the Bravo-style contest shows, this has always seemed like the one where the contest aspect was weakest.

It'd be horribly awkward if all of the sudden everybody started talking about Joe's other son, Rudy, who's 15 years older than Iris and Barry, and who no one mentioned in S1 because he's kind of a prick.

I'd love for them to do a whole season with Wally as a character before giving him powers, kind of like the slow build they're apparently doing with Cisco. It's a bit of a tightrope—the second Wally shows up, the expectation is that he's going to get powers, but you can't do the perma-tease like Smallville, where…

One of them, at least.

They went to Sony with the Fantastic Four.

Both are limited by (to the characters, at least) a tragic deadline: Walt has his cancer, the Jenningses have the eventual fall of the Berlin Wall.

It's an awkward word choice, I know. What I was thinking of is the way we don't get much by the way of villains on the American side. At first, it looked like Gaad was going to be the villain, Stan's careerist, fanatically anti-communist boss. Over time, he's gotten depth and…while we're not necessarily invited to…

I grew up in the tail end of that era, and was pretty far from being a godless Commie (I was the only kid in my middle school giving Social Studies speeches about how wonderful Ronald Reagan was), and I love the show. I've found that that background makes me appreciate the show more, not less—there's not much American…

"(Actually, I don't even know why I don't watch it)"

Yeah, Emmy voters act like FX is the USA Network with a pedigree of "fun, but not Art" entertainment. Still, it's frustrating that every once in a while they give some indication that they're paying attention to FX shows, like with Martindale's win for Justified S2, and then they go back to having their heads in the…

That's true. Of the two of them, the one I'd be really heartbroken for is Moss, since Peggy's an all-time great character, and Moss has been nominated and passed over 6 times for the role already. The train's leaving the station, and I hope the Emmy voters have the good sense to get on board. I just have no confidence…

Are the ratings that much worse than Breaking Bad's? The only solid numbers I could find to compare the Americans to BB were the season premieres, and the number of viewers was comparable (up until BB's celebrated final season, when the show suddenly became a ratings hit).