If you haven't before, you should check out Tim Kring's interview with the AVC from when the show was in its final season. He basically admits that he doesn't know how to write stories for characters with superpowers, which is why the show got worse and worse the more of them there were. It was never good, but it got…

Tim Kring is such a spectacularly talentless writer that even this review makes me hesitant. Because set-up was never his problem. His problem is that he has no understanding of how superhero stories - stories that deal with these big, weird, rule-breaking powers - work, and he lacks the imagination to write himself…

Prez, Catwoman and Omega Men were three of the best four or so DC books out there, so seeing them cut down so quickly definitely hurts. Guess they'll go back to lobbing out half-assed Lobdell programmers no one gives a shit about until they go under or literally every book is headlined by Batman.

Wood and Edmondson are almost certainly the Marvel writers being discussed.

I was so happy when the announced it was coming back. I was genuinely worried it would be shuffled off eventually.

It's pretty common for actors to be more progressive than executives, I suspect.

Redmayne has given one worthwhile performance ever, and that was in Jupiter Ascending.

No, thank you.

The Mr. Poopybutthole twist was predictable; what wasn't predictable was the gravity with which it was treated. The shaking hands during the drinking, the physical therapy, the amount of blood - THAT was what sold the joke.

Honestly, Kim Kardashian is at least interesting in her relative worthlessness; very, very few people have ever played the "famous for being famous" game better than her, and she's endured while similar porny dilettantes have come and gone, no pun intended.

Playing a bit fast and loose with the word masterpiece there, in my opinion. He's made one masterpiece - Unforgiven - three or four very strong films - Misty, High Plains, Josey, Mystic - and then a handful of kind of serviceable movies, and he hasn't even been able to reach 'serviceable' in nearly a damn decade.…

I admit to being facetious with my "forgotten" remark. As you say, it's often difficult to say what will stick around. I more meant that it simply isn't very good, and like most 'prestige pics' that exist to gobble up awards and then be forgotten, it has served its purpose.

You can blame Chet on the institution of marriage, actually. Indeed, I feel comfortable saying that Chet Haze is perhaps the worst thing any marriage has ever given this country, probably.

Exactly. There's a difference between "Making sure you get it right on the first go," and "Accepting the first go."

I'd put most of them as basically 'average Oscar bait'. Which I guess is slightly better than 'average junk', but not by much, to me.

Which is mostly why I didn't care for it. I mean, he made a film casting himself as Crotchety Conservative Jesus.

Hanks is supposedly one of the few actors who pushes for a smaller age gap with his on-screen wives.

I haven't seen Changeling, but I can't say I was terribly impressed by anything else in that period. I know people briefly liked Gran Torino, but that seems pretty justifiably forgotten. Flags of Our Fathers was a fucking mess. Letters from Iwo Jima was dignified, but… I mean, that's not super high praise, to me.

Oh, good, I can't wait for Eastwood to puke out another static, amateurish film. I was worried that after a decade of shitty films he might accidentally retire.

My prediction: He'll keep holding off on using it, expecting something really awful to happen. He'll finally use it in the final episode of the season on the last possible review as a joke, which will be harmless… only to have it replaced by something awful.