[SPOILERS] I wonder if it's overstating things to call it the "Stark-Lannister-Baratheon conflict." I think Martin had a really detailed vision of the Stark-Lannister conflict, working outward from Eddard's execution as a story of subverting the typical expectations of a medieval/fantasy saga. The Baratheons are…

For a while, it was "Untitled Halle Berry's Tits Movie."

Remarkable makeup and acting job to make the younger Arkin look and sound like the older, though.

"You know, this whole shotgun/leisure suit rabbi look has got to go. Go get some chinos and a short-sleeve shirt."

Great analysis. For Cosby, the counterclaim also serves as a PR fig leaf if the terms of the settlement can be kept under wraps. He'd be able to claim that both sides settled their claims against each other, as if the settlement weren't just him paying his accusers off for the things he did.

In other words, he acts exactly as a father would act in real life. Also, remember that Barry's shitty behavior isn't completely divorced from Ollie's—in some things (like having his own black bag prison) Joe could be forgiven for thinking that Barry's just following Ollie's (and Eobard/Welles') lead.

Oh definitely. I quite like this change to make Mystique a bigger part of the movies, and completely understand the narrative need to tighten things up, since having Prof X and Magneto meet in Israel, and bop around the Middle East fighting Hydra and the Shadow King along with Legion's mom wouldn't have worked.

Not really. They've written a storyline (after First Class, I think) where she had a child with Xavier, but it's not like the movies where they grew up together.

Joe's a hypocrite about a great many things, but not liking Ollie isn't one of them. He's right to stand up for Barry living by the values Joe raised him with, rather than the ones that Oliver espouses. There's nothing hypocritical about wanting your kid to be his own person.

He led the villain from the season premiere (Atom Smasher?) into a nuclear reactor, where he was overloaded with radiation, killing him. The following week, he turned the sand-based bad guy into glass and shattered him. It's possible the sand guy survived—hard to tell about the physiology of someone made of silicone,…

There are cities with no-mask laws to prevent Klan rallies, among other things. IIRC, those have held up to constitutional challenge. Still, something as specific as Robin-related gear seems like it would be a restraint of speech. In America we don't ban Nazi symbols under a similar rationale.

Off giving someone dysentery?

"Ya don't ask for permission. You just go!"

Yeah, I really have to go back and watch S1 in full.

D'Oh! I knew that—I remember his Scots accent slipping in every once in a while when he was the Doctor, and I've seen BBC documentaries narrated by him in his normal Scottish lilt. He's just such a versatile voice actor I got confused as to which was the real accent and which the fake. (Probably my favorite thing of…

I think that's the frustration with this series. It's enjoyable as it is, but there are these tantalizing hints of something much better that it could be. I'm currently enjoying the Kanan comic book on Marvel Unlimited, but while I'm reading it, I can't help but wonder: why am I reading this story in a tie-in comic…

Putting her in Supporting Actress probably increased her chances of winning, given how smitten everyone was by Jessica Lange's AHS performance that year. It's not that odd to put a relative unknown from an ensemble show up in the supporting category, specially when the main competition (in both categories) are other…

I was kind of hoping when we came back to the scene with his baby momma, Oliver would take the second chance Barry's time travel had given him: "Wow, I didn't anticipate you asking me that. See, I already told my girlfriend about William, but other than her, yep, I promise no one will ever know. We cool?"

Did you protest like this when Deep Space 9 added Worff to the cast? Because this is pretty much the same thing. (Not to mention that the scenario you present is pretty close to the plot of Star Trek Generations—not a movie I'll defend, but still…)

Good point. Someone else mentioned Justified as another example of a show that started off smooth as a procedural before finding (or revealing) its serialized story. Still, I think it's a little different for a Marvel/superhero property, where there's the expectation that the audience is waiting for the show to get to…