I literally just joked about Steinman adapting it. I have never heard this rumour before. It's a sign, Jim!

Jim Steinman could do it! I'd be interested to hear how he somehow works "Original Sin" and the bridge from "Total Eclipse of the Heart" into the context of Batman.

Maybe that's why Sorkin's better at movies. If he can absolutely nail the first two hours at least, maybe stopping at two hours is the key.

Same here regarding the Ice Cream War. I even got there through the gelato page. I guess I figured Vago would get there eventually.

That sounds wonderful. Stouts are probably my favourite kind of beer. I'll have to try that if possible.

Part of why I picked Batman: TAS is that I didn't have a terribly close connection to it either. I watched it here and there and liked it, but I wasn't a close fan the way that many people my age were. I mentioned it because it had this obvious sheen of professionalism about it that even adults would notice. It was…

I have a few close friends for whom fandom is a fact of their lives. It's been that way since high school (can that be called the WebRing Era? I just want to call it that) and it's never going to change. Their attitude is the same as yours, pretty much. I remember some of the people with whom they associated…

You're too kind. Hopefully, there'll be more on those before too long. (Not too many open fans of trad around this site, as far as I know. Represent! For the Good Ship Kangaroo!)

One of the central themes seems to be the importance of community, so it is heavily about interpersonal interactions. People probably do exaggerate it somewhat, but it's a pretty key part of the plot.

It was the Paris attacks at the end of last year for me. I just realized that nothing I saw on Facebook was going to be worth going there. I still don't regret it.

I guess they could show them fusing, which seems like something that's pretty likely to happen anyway (I'm two episodes behind, so they may well have done that already for all I know).

In all seriousness, just ignore the fandom. It's pretty easy. I caught up from the beginning to the first few episodes of the third season essentially in a vacuum. The fans don't have to ruin this for you.

Yeah. I don't agree with trying to take objectivity too far when evaluating media, but I think it's obvious after watching a few episodes that it's not a poorly-made cartoon that people pretend to like. There's a hell of a lot of love in the making of this show and it pays off.

I got advance warning to avoid the fandom if I were going to start watching the show. It was good advice. Everything's there onscreen; it's not like Teen Wolf or something where the fans seem to basically be making their own fun with something that was never good (disclaimer: never watched it, don't intend to start).

Depends on what you mean by "genuinely good". It makes me laugh more consistently than most things. The animation is pretty high-quality for TV and has some of that unapologetic cartooniness that I like. The voice acting is top-notch, in my opinion; they got an actual well-known working musician and a musical…

It's my not-so-secret key to great cream cheese cookies. I always find that recipes, even good ones, tend to be pretty conservative about spicing cookies. A judicious amount of pumpkin pie spice (or its component spices) is just the thing to set off the cheesecake-ish flavour of the cookies.

Well, that was about as inevitable as the result of an equation. I genuinely wonder how much (if any) of what he says during the standard breakdown segment is based in truth.

Was it that guy who comes back and repeats the cycle endlessly under a new incomprehensible gimmick every time he's banned?

Don't people delete their posts now if they want to cover them up, though? That seems to be the case with almost every story I've heard about Twitter drama. It seems like it would work out roughly the same way as that does.

That'd be a closer analogy if this were about ISPs. If you can compare anything about Twitter to anything on phones, it'd probably be those old-school party lines. It's an individual service that's popular enough to be a quasi-medium, but it's not a medium in and of itself. This is more like (though still a huge…