What makes “Arena” Peak Kirk—in a way that his perhaps more nobler displays in the likes of “City” and “Balance” don’t—is, for better or worse, it embraces his duality as a swashbuckling space hero and someone who champions a utopian society that has moved beyond such sensibilities.

And speaking of Hitler, the problem with most superheroes being depicted in that war is why they didn’t kill or capture him.

Ares, the epic Greek god of war, as a middle-aged British man with a silly 1910s mustache

It’s a fun trope to play with Hitler’s fascination with the supernatural, but it would not be fun to suggest that Hitler’s rise to power and command over the German people was a result of supernatural influence.

It’s that kind of demonic image of the Germans that was also whipped up by Allied propaganda and helped to ensure that the Treaty of Versailles was so punitive. Maybe we should just be grateful the screenwriters didn’t go with Kaiser Kong as their villain.

IN A WORLD
Ruled by the iron fist of Rome
Where faith is threatened
Even death
Could not stop
One Man
From meeting his Destiny

Even my forum software from 17 years ago (!) already stored passwords as MD5 hashes, not plaintext. I haven’t seen such insecure password storage since old .cgi bulletin boards in the 1990ies.

Proposed title for the third instalment:

A show that was ahead of its time and unfortunate to run on the wrong network.

• Buy portraits of yourself with the donations your charity received

Now he has the money to fulfill his childhood dream of starring in his own Superman adaption.

As American politicians continue to debate and weigh different regulatory and antitrust approaches to Silicon Valley’s titan tech companies

He’s considered a catch in hell.

If they ever make that film, the casting director will have Tom Hardy on speed dial.

I know this is counterintuitive to how executives for a mega-corporation like Disney think - how do we squeeze as much money as possible out of the properties we own? - but if it were me in charge of the franchise, I would let it rest for at least half a decade after Episode IX and then carefully built excitement…

The only lesson they want to teach us plebeians in this regard is the same it’s been for thousands of years - quod licet iovi, non licet bovi (colloquically: “Gods may do what cattle may not”).

That’s barely a blip on the Kylo Ren scale, but it did make me laugh.

If we dont ‘need’ something, but marketing makes us ‘want’ it, is that something that needs fixing?

I used to live in Japan for a while, and the stark contrast in disaster reporting between the East / South-East Asian region and what’s going on now is saddening and disconcerting.

A man with such a mug either is very confident, or he has something to hide.