Dowd, very sad to see you go. I keep saying I’ll quit this site after all the shit they do, and how they seem to want to get rid of the commentariat, but there just aren’t any other sites to go to really.

Godspeed, Dowd! Hope to see (plus) you writing somewhere else real soon!

Paul would have been great as Superman, although he kind of did play that role in Due South. :-) I missed Due South when the first two seasons aired on CBS in the U.S. but a Canadian friend turned me on to it after the fact and I watched Season 3 (aka Seasons 3 & 4) when it was new in syndication. At some point the…

Also, the new Ray’s real name was Stanley Kowalski and his ex-wife was called Stella.

I loved when they rebooted/revived Due South and couldn’t bring back the original Ray, instead of giving Fraser’s new partner a new name, they just said he was the same Ray and had everyone else tell Fraser “Yeah, this is Ray, this has always been Ray”.

There’s four directions on this map but you’re only going one way

I like to think of him as Due South’s Callum Keith Rennie, since that’s the first thing I saw him in and also Due South was great. (Though they shouldn’t reboot it.)

One problem here with a reboot is that Sam Beckett was born in 1953 (making him ten years older than Scott Bakula, since the show was set in 1999, not 1989, when it originally aired.)

I was just saying the other day that we needed a Sliders reboot.. But you know what? This is close enough. =)

Uh, Ziggy says there’s a 92.3% chance this is going to suck.

Son of a gun, kid! Give it a rest. Your legal-torial pissings are becoming a drain. Why not dive dive dive into a more constructive hobby? Like cooking fine Mexican seafood? Or take dance lessons and learn to do the twist? Instead you’re just going to take this scoff-able excuse for a lawsuit and just milk it!?

It pretty clearly seems to being suggesting the exact opposite of what they claim it does.

I think the film works well enough as a film, but I agree it doesn’t particularly feel like an adaptation of the book at all. Different story, different style, different characters, just some names and concepts borrowed.

“He disagreed with something that aaaaayyyyyy’ed him.”  

Lambada? You mean.... the forbidden dance?

Didn’t the guy responsible for the magic turn out to be a sex pest?

Shit’s weird, man. I have a lot more to say but I shouldn’t. 

It makes no financial sense to require writers to operate out of a single office space, rather than working much more cheaply from home, so it’s got to be about control. Remote workers cannot be subjected to constant surveillance, and that sends some managers - the really, really bad ones - into a tailspin.

What a shitty thing to do, but I expect nothing less given the company.

But but at least SM3 was fun at times. Reloaded is a joyless slog. Also those two sequels have not aged well.