I agree about the bathroom scene. Between the look on Sarah’s face when watching him play Go Fish with the kids, and making the actual deed a lot less titillating than it could have been, it actually was a pretty great character moment for both of them.

It’s possible that Marian and Rafi could somehow force Micro back into doing off-the-books spy work (possibly by threatening his family), which in turn could bring Frank back into it. But yeah, the worst option (messy ending for Sarah and the kids) is definitely the most obvious.

Overall I really liked this show, and I’m intrigued by season 2, where it seems Billy/Jigsaw will be the Joker to Frank’s Batman.

It’s 1875, you can sue HER!

Amazon says it’s 1,080 pages, which seems ridiculous to me, but at least it’s not their new Fourth World omni (Kirby’s complete run of all 4 series in 1 volume), which is over 1500 pages

I think now that Frank has embraced that “home” for him is shooting bad guys, he might get less picky about only punishing those he has a personal vendetta against. Way back at the beginning of season 1 he showed that he has no problem killing criminals who are threatening the (relatively) innocent, and it’s far more…

Fair point. He does fit nicely into the grand tradition of X-characters with ridiculous accents, but still I probably should have said Wolfsbane or even Colossus or something.

I can only hope they’ll include cameos by Cannonball, Banshee etc. The full rainbow of Claremontian accents!

It was a great scene, and absolutely terrifying. Holden’s rapidly swelling ego leads him to blow off the FBI’s internal investigation, to dump himself on Debbie’s behalf, and most crucially to forget that putting a label on Kemper doesn’t change the fact that he’s alone in a small room with a seven-foot-tall…

That is truly amazing.

Amen.

Heh, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” is one of my all-time favorite essays, so that is one definite upside to all this.

Aww, you mean you bailed before the part where they have to talk their way through enemy lines, and so there’s a whole chapter of people arguing in French? Or the scene where Hawkeye gets the drop on the villain by disguising himself as a bear?

Whenever people complain that the movies aren’t faithful enough to the Tolkien’s books, I argue that a perfectly faithful adaptation would have to be the longest musical ever made.

Last of the Mohicans is, and probably will always be, the reigning champion of worst book to become a good movie.

I figured you probably had, but just checking. And you’re right, there are a million Marvel characters that he could work wonders with.

Tom King went to Marvel, however briefly, and it was glorious. If you haven’t read his Vision miniseries, it’s outstanding.

I know, he’s so smarmy and awful through the whole movie, it’s amazing.

Charles Grodin saying “Thieves aren’t breathing down your neck!” while breathing down her neck.

I don’t think there’s any movie I’ve seen more times than Caper. The weird gag of Kermit and Fozzie playing twin brothers went completely over my head as a kid, but now it somehow gets better every time.