Martin seems like he'd be a ball to work with. I remember hearing Angie Harmon say her time on Law and Order was characterized by Orbach and Martin singing show tunes at one another between takes.

As a stereotypical angry gay lefty, I know that feel. It kinda feels shitty to dismiss people who are yelling about how the security apparatus of the state has metastasized and become its own malefic force, even when the people we thought would take it apart are in charge. But… do we just turn our backs on those…

That adventurous senior group from the Bob's Burgers pilot should be showing up any minute now.

"I am on the road crew. Note my helmet and sign."

I didn't mean to…

Brick's going to be showing up, played by Vinnie Jones. The show's also used Merlyn (sort of), Count Vertigo (again, sort of), and Clock King, all of whom started as Green Arrow villains.

From what I've heard, Cartoon Network fears more from the moral scolds abroad than the ones at home. I swear one of the Adventure Time writers said they'd love to make Marceline and Princess Bubblegum's past relationship explicit on the show, but CN's told them that the show sees distribution in countries where…

By the standards of the period, though… Werewolf would have trouble with the suits whenever anyone has to go to Crinos, Mage might work if you play up coincidental effects, and Changeling would likely mean a lot of child actors.

They had a Nosferatu, but he had kinda crap makeup. They were apparently going to bring in Malkavians in Season 2, as well as the Tremere.

Oh, there is so much to bitch about from a purist's perspective. They go out in the daylight, the Brujah acted like the Giovanni, the Gangrel acted like the Brujah… I'm not gonna bitch about the Ventrue knowing Protean, though, 'cause any veteran Vampire player knows EVERYONE learns everyone else's shit, eventually.

Ah, Kindred. The first and, with Deadlands being shunted off to the abyss after the collapse of the Xbox Network, last major primetime adaptation of a tabletop RPG for some time. Odds are the show might have lived on after cancellation - there was talk of bringing it to Showtime and working in the setting elements…

Honestly? I'm mainly going by Wikipedia myself. Sorry. I'm one of those assholes. But I think it says a lot that I can get all this stuff through Wikipedia, and the media keeps repeating all the same old bullshit. And it's clear that some people do the research, but only so deep. I once read a script that dived deep…

In which the white boy who knows way too much about voodoo elaborates:

I remember Roger Ebert just was not having it in his review of the movie, either. He figured that people HAVE to find hope and purpose in the Afro-Caribbean faiths beyond the "yay, a dark malefic murder cult of my own!" so often portrayed in the movies, and wondered when the hell someone would show voodoo beyond…

And here my starting persona was Dawes. You're sure I can't do that whole merging deal?

Eh, I guess when you're a member of a subculture that's been painted as violent mindless scum for years, being painted as RACIST violent mindless scum comes as more of a cause to push back than abandon ship. Honestly, most of the skins I've seen out here in LA are Hispanic, and this bar I go to has a ska/reggae night…

And that's the BETTER way to take his statement. God knows I've seen the "It's really annoying to see minority characters who don't actually seem to be shaped by the experiences a member of that minority might have from birth" argument in academia (or Tumblr), and I can get behind it. But it's the way Klickstein…

I was going to say that, as a fellow child of the Nineties, there's a type of diversity I can understand people wanting to avoid - the kind where a bunch of well-meaning white people took some minorities, plugged them into the work, and went by cliches and misunderstandings. Chris Claremont is known for making the…

Normally, I'd buy the idea that it was a mess on both sides - some issues treated the SHRA as a means of receiving government training and a stipend, whereas others treated it as "you do what we want, no matter what your objections, or you go to jail." But Millar's "I totally stand on the side of registration" message…

Yeah, and therein lies the problem. Because while I'd love to see it explored in detail, sometimes it feels like writers reach into a big grab-bag of what is considered "Native American mythology" and fish through a pile of Ravens, Coyotes, Thunderbirds, wendigos, and skinwalkers, regardless of which tribe the work…