"No-one but a blockhead ever but for money!" - Samuel Johnson. Art is usually the tertiary effect. I write because I have to write. Then I hope to make money as a result. If I create art in the process, fantastic. But it's not the primary goal.

Whoops, you're right...that does sound Henry Jackman's work up there, though. However, Tyler was announced a while back, and I somehow managed to switch him out for Jackman.

Oh good lord, what makes you think I'm going to further engage in this outright flummery? Do the Dance Of Joy if you wish, Numfar, I have too much else to do with my life at the moment to join in, as much as I enjoy fannish intellectual masturbation at times (it amuses me to bring the wrecking ball to the marble halls…

And this is me rolling my eyes and sighing heavily. I hope it helped you to get all of that bile out.

Season 2.

Chloe O'Brian on 24. Started out as a mousy tech nerd with self-made problems dealing with middle managers (and referred to by many of us as "potato-face", which is a credit to Mary Lynn Rajskub because she's actually quite cute, and is very funny), struck up a working relationship with Jack Bauer that saw her…

There's at least two films that ruined the Trek franchise before Abrams brought it back to life, and some would argue that there's more (V and Nemesis, certainly, possibly Insurrection, possibly Generations, and, for some, III, although that did good business, and some would cite The Motion Picture.) Add into that at…

There's at least two films that ruined the Trek franchise before Abrams brought it back to life, and some would argue that there's more (V and Nemesis, certainly, possibly Insurrection, possibly Generations, and, for some, III, although that did good business, and some would cite The Motion Picture.) Add into that at…

Who's been steaming up the post-apocalyptic forests on The 100. Well, until [spoiler]....

I'm trying to remember if Hawaii 5-0 does it, but all I can think of is the deliberate modeling of the title sequence after the original. I do recall that they brought back one of the episode villains from the original series, with the same actor playing him, and there was even a line or two to provide a throughline…

Aaaah, Annie Potts, one of the classic run of Manic Pixie Dream Girls.

There was a case a few years back of an anaconda set loose in the Florida Everglades trying to choke down a rather large alligator. The attempt killed both — the alligator smothered, and the snake ruptured.

I'd say that's at least connected to the new score as that's definitely Henry Jackman's work. I expect to be pleasantly surprised, just as I was with his X-Men First Class score.

The Dark Horse books are now classed under "Star Wars Legends" — i.e., non-canon EU.

Basically what happened was that around the time the direct market was kicked off (which is marginally more lucrative thanks to the no-returns thing) the major distributors to newsstands, as well as newsstand operators themselves, started to realize that there wasn't much profit in funnybooks any more. Part of the…

News Stand is basically a term for a vanishing breed — sidewalk vendors of magazines and newspapers and sundry items, and comics, as well as for the storefront type shops that did the same thing; the UK term for the same thing is "newsagent." You can still find traditional newsstands in the really big cities, but…

Hell, news stands themselves have been vanishing en masse, and grocery stores quit stocking comics years ago. Bookstores only go for the trades these days.

There was a point at the end of Quantum Of Solace where it struck me that Craig was very much channeling Edward Woodward's Callan. In many respects, Craig as Bond hits the notes that the original novels hit, which is the cold, efficient, absolute bastard...but Callan is even more of that, plus he has a nasty talent…

At the time of QoS the producers and Craig both said, several times, that there wasn't going to be a trilogy as the Bond films have never worked that way. I rather wish they'd gone with a third in the set just to fix the issues with QoS....

Aaah, yes. There's an oddly Asian cast to Cap, though. Then again, a couple of the figures seem off in terms of likenesses.