I'm with Picard. star Trek is much better as an adventure of the week show, throwing different crazy ideas out there all the time. The Dominion war stuff was just a huge wearying slog. There were some very good episodes mixed in there, but it just never really worked for me.

Yeah, of all the political shows, Colbert's is the least guilty of that. His writing is just much, much better than Maher's and Stewart's shows. He also does a lot more absurd non-political stuff.

Captain America was the only Marvel movie besides the original Iron Man that was any good.

There's no way to read that line that would make it not terrible.

People say that, but really the main mistake the allies made at the end of ww1 was they treated Germany too gently. Official blame for the war, some territorial loss and reparations look like a slap on the wrist compared to what happened to Germany after the next war. By the end of WW2 the allies had near totally…

Shouldn't that go to new shows?

Yesterday's Enterprise fits, though I guess it falls under the It's a Wonderful Life category.

Are they? They seem mostly forgettable these days. Will anyone be re-reading any of this stuff 20 years from now?

Does he actually believe cracker is offensive to white people? I've never met anyone who is genuinely offended by that word.

Naturalism is a stylistic choice, not an objective benchmark of quality. If that's what you like, fine. Personally, I think heavily stylized writing and melodrama fits superhero stories much better.

You hate hero vs. villain delineation in comic book superhero stories? I can appreciate giving villains understandable motives and heroes significant character flaws, but stark hero/villain adventures are the one thing superhero stories are really good at.

But he gets to read the scripts before he signs on to them.

That, and the collapse of several old empires makes for vey interesting politics.

Not really. Ludendorff was a pretty bad character himself. His plans for eastern Europe weren't that much better than the Nazis themselves. I'd bet the whole continent would have gone communist if the war dragged on much longer, as it would have if the U.S. didn't get involved.

Plus the roles are smaller so shooting takes less time, equalling out.

It gives them a vehicle to meet new production interns and cocktail waitresses when they travel the world to film and do promotion

Any word on when the new Poirot mysteries will be produced/aired? I've been hearing for a while that they're going to adapt the last few Poirot stories with Suchet (including the death of Poirot) but they seem to be taking a very long time to do it.

Your second to last paragraph describes what I hated about Morrison's X-Men very well.

Xavier is American. Why wouldn't he have an American accent? Patrick Stewart gets away with his accent for Xavier for the same reason he got away with playing a Frenchman. Because he's Patrick Stewart.

Seinfeld is the earliest example of a show with no opening credits/theme song that I can think of.