I mean, I didn’t love it, but it was pretty far from being a disaster in my book. I went, I enjoyed the two hours I spent, and I’ll probably see the next movie when it hits theaters in a couple years. It felt like one of those things everyone decided to hate sight-unseen.

And, like Blockbuster, they first take down the entire industry of non-terrible retail stores first. Jerks.

Goelz certainly could pull rank on Whitmire, if he was so inclined. But Frank Oz hasn’t been directly involved with the Muppets for over a decade. The extent of his involvement these days seems to be constantly bitterly complaining about how the people currently running the franchise aren’t doing it right.

The Entertainment Industry is, but the Henson company wasn’t. Henson famously took great care of the teams at Sesame, Muppets and the Creature Shop.

That his performance is less fun, less whimsical, and more mean that Henson’s ever was. I never really bought that hearing it from Muppet geeks back in the day. But its become much more apparent over the years.

Yep. And it wasn’t so much a true “sticking point” as merely the last thing to be addressed in negotiations. Henson insiders have variously stated that they were a few days to a month away from finalizing a deal.

The Muppets themselves went to Disney, which is why you can’t get the full hour-long version of “A Muppet Family Christmas.”

If I remember correctly, there was a stipulation in the various deals between the Children’s Television/Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company and Disney that allowed Muppets who had previously appeared on Sesame Street (so, Kermit, pretty much) to keep making appearances. The decision to phase out Kermit was made…

I got my start in fandom way back in 1989 (and, sadly, it wasn’t the first time my interest in a franchise seemed to amount to a kiss of death). For a long time I wasn’t keen on the idea of the Doctor regenerating into a woman. It wasn’t because I was opposed to the idea of a woman playing the part, per se, and it…

Yeah, it’s a bit jarring to realize you’re suddenly older than the Doctor, isn’t it? Went through that myself back when they hired Matt Smith.

It’s worth noting that there was ambiguity surrounding the High Council’s offer to grant the Master another set of lives in “The Five Doctors,” because he technically wasn’t inhabitating his original body at that point. He’d stolen the body of Tremas, a Trakenite, so (the logic went) that body could be granted a full…

The Ninja Turtles never actually used their weapons in the cartoon though.

Oh, don’t get me wrong: I like the pants look. I actually really, really liked the pants-and-leather-jacket look, and I preferred the costume redesign originally announced for the New 52 back in 2011, before the howls of the Internet forced them to get rid of the pants (man, that sentence sure sounds horribly…

Well, yeah. I just wouldn’t want to see anyone fork over money for a Netflix subscription expecting to get more Young Justice and getting an unwelcome surprise. How they actually manage to acquire more Young Justice, and the legality or lack thereof involved in that process, is, I’m sure, none of my business. ;-)

Yeah, pretty much. I think there’s still the potential for a market, as the medium has continued to survive and even thrive in places like Europe, Japan, and South Korea, but it’s a difficult fit for the American marketplace, and, as you suggest, there’s arguably less of a reason to even bother trying these days than…

I’m not sure that the direct market has marginalized the industry so much as been a reaction to a marginalization that was already pretty much inevitable before the direct market existed. I mean, it’s inarguably inferior to the old newsstand/supermarket model in terms of reach and sales potential, yeah. But its not…

I love almost all of these designs, frankly. Both Batgirl and Supergirl’s designs run rings around the current “in-continuity” comic book equivalents (and I actually like Batgirl’s current look in the comics). The only one I’m not 100% sold on is Wonder Woman, and that’s more of a “missed opportunity” vibe than being…

I mean, it’s obviously not really accurate to the comic version, since you can make a similar argument for Harley Quinn (a victim of abuse and probably PTSD). They’ve all been sanitized for children in the way you’d expect for a children-focused range.

The problem is that, in the US/Canada, at least, the comic book market has been very niche for a number of decades. That’s for a variety of reasons, some due to the industry’s own decisions, but mostly due to larger market trends out of their direct control. Most notably, the newsstand and periodicals market really…

Er, the third season of Young Justice is only coming to Netflix in certain countries not to include the US. In the US, it’s coming exclusively to Warner Bros.’s upcoming DC Comics-centric subscription video service.