In all seriousness, this show needs 3-4 year time skips every season to bypass its canon issues and show a changing Gotham and Batman's place in it. It's a gamble to recast decent child actors, but it's the only way.

That reminds me of the time I banged Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom.

Vader assembles a bunch of bounty hunters to do what his officers can't. From the outlandish lineup of weirdo aliens and robots that Vader takes seriously, we can infer that they're the best at bounty hunting. Fett succeeds and is calmly professional about it, so he's the best of the best. And he wears a helmet, so…

I thought she was good on the episode, but I'm generally cautious about guests getting too associated with characters to the point that they're obliged to be paired over and over. CBB doesn't really have a mechanism for avoiding character burnout other than giving them spinoffs or just retiring them. On a similar…

Look, Scary Ethnic has come a long way to distance himself from his old buddies Ginger Ethnic, Sporty Ethnic, Baby Ethnic, and Posh Ethnic.

I have to say, over the years Dick Wolf has carved out some prime real estate in Tommy Westphall's imagination.

I like a lot of earnestly far-left political stuff even though I don't agree with it. Rise Against is kind of absurd in their politics, and they actually have a song that screams about how totally hardcore, badass, and punk affirmative action and social welfare programs are, but the novelty makes it interesting, if…

Uh, his name is Larry Mullen Senior's Son's Son.

There's the horse that helped Kate escape the marshal, but no off-island visions can be MIB because he can't leave the Island.

It fits with MIB being unable to kill the candidates directly (except for Eko who didn't count for whatever reason), and instead tricked other candidates into burying them alive.

Oh, yes. The Americans could have just starved millions of people to death instead of committing an atrocity like they did. What monsters.

No, Todd would say 'his earlier stuff.'

I never thought the Ruusan one was even necessary. They're both grandiose statements open to interpretation, but instead the EU treated them literally. Like, sure, explain that the Republic has only 'stood' for 1000 years due to some period of instability back then, plus that feels more historical than a constant…

Star Wars continuity does have some elegant retcons, and I guess it's not totally without effort, but it still makes very little sense because it's retroactive and therefore the original stories don't leave much room to suggest that they're only stealing part of the Death Star plans. Good retcons should maintain the…

I think Doug Benson might have posted here, but he's, uh, busy today.

Meanwhile, according to the Expanded Universe, the first Death Star plans were stolen by… fucking everyone. Like, twelve different books, games, or comics have their characters steal the Death Star plans because it was never explicitly described in the movies. Lucasfilm tried to come up with some retcon magic about…

Seems like he's slumming it with this role, since we all know Russell Brand is a more influential thinker than God.

I said as much in the SNL review, but Mumford & Sons ditching the banjos and going electric sounds like an Onion article, or at the least a decent AV Club headline.

So the guy who got shot with the arrow for the original Wilhelm scream actually died too? Method acting was hardcore back then.

Well, at that point they knew how awful it was, they just didn't care. Strategic bombing theory had evolved so that there were still justifications for using it on the Germans. But this particular usage isn't a case of total war. It has that whole charmingly naive colonialist attitude where it doesn't even occur to…