(The less said about the prior attempt to adapt Martin’s novella, a limp 1987 film starring Catherine Mary Stuart, the better.)

I admit my insight here derives from friends and acquaintances who’ve owned them, and whose yards I’ve seen adorned with them like big, wheeled, weed-surrounded lawn sheds for years after.

Just how much control Disney has over prospective “Beauty and the Beast” treatments is debatable, but the litigation risks are likely higher than any producer would want to deal with.

though Teddy does feel the need to ask if anyone else found her a bit annoying.

That’s be one good tongue-in-cheek approach. Another would be having the Justice League show up just as they do save the world, presume that this bunch of villains was the problem all along, and mop the floor with them.

The most likely explanation for the plot of The Toybox is that someone wanted to make a horror movie about a place that was haunted, scrolled through every existing iteration of a haunted location on film...

I mostly sympathize with all of that (especially the narrative problems with introducing the really Big Bads), though I had the impression that the authorities weren’t quite aware of the magnitude of the problem, and that Amanda Waller had only called in the Squad in the first place to save her own ass and keep her…

It’d really be rather dependent on the weather. In dryer or sunnier climates, I would think the heads of many walkers would tend to mummify rather than rot. The head has less fluid-rich tissue to begin with than other parts of the body, and without a circulatory system, gravity would drag body fluids low. Rotting…

Yeah, the definition of “reboot” is being stretched to meaninglessness.

That scene would have played a lot differently with about a hundred head of cattle mooing in the background.

Isn’t that David Harbour’s sister?

Tora Tora Tora is great as a kind of “dramatized documentary”. It may seem a little narratively distant, but there are no cornball made-up melodramas or character arcs. Some might quibble with the historical accuracy of some parts, but that still puts it orders of magnitude above Bay’s Pearl Harbor in conveying a “you…

So those things could theoretically be herded as a sort of “beer on the hoof”? There’s an interesting concept for fantasy world-building.

Quite a fan of it growing up. Apparently the Canadian voice actors who did RRH were quite busy in the late ‘60s, also lending their skills to ABC’s Saturday morning Spider-Man cartoon, as well as Rankin-Bass’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. And when Ralph Bakshi applied his skills to producing another season’s worth…

Which TNG should have done more often, frankly...

Nah, they just made the (rather thick) sandwich on a sliced bagel (I choose sesame) instead of bread. Honestly, a mere couple slices of bread thrown in wouldn’t have been much more filling.

When I was working in New York, I’d sometimes have a turkey or roast beef sandwich on a bagel for lunch, and that was pretty much all I needed until next morning’s breakfast.

When the homeless guy has a more appealing mugshot than you, it’s time to reassess your life.

An unsustainable business model is little comfort to the disintegrated.

The “No disintegrations!”, “As you wish...” exchange in Empire implies that Fett is a particularly violent bounty hunter, who “brings ‘em back alive” only as a last resort. On top of that, there was the animated sequence in the Christmas Special (pretty much it’s only unironic bright spot), which did set him up more…