I absolutely loved Willow when I was little, and as I grew up I was kind of surprised to discover that the characters and ideas* in it weren't considered cultural touchstones to, like, anyone outside my house. Even once I got used to the idea that the movie wasn't a big deal, my heart would break a little when I'd…

That is, in fact, a different actress playing aged-up Ivy than the one that played young Ivy.

I really enjoyed this and I'm looking forward to seeing where it's going to go, but my one concern was the mention of how "management" wants something different from the park than anyone else involved. It's entirely possible it'll be handled well, but if it's handled the way that kind of thing is almost always handled…

It hit me right away that I knew the melody from somewhere but it took me a minute or so to place the exact song. It made me want to go back and see if the songs from previous iterations of the day were also recognizable. There's a song that kind of sounded like "Red Right Hand" but I don't think it actually was.

Hey Gotham, in the future maybe don't recast a character and then, in the very next episode, have that character not appear, but have people talk about that character while introducing an entirely new character - played by an actress not-entirely-dissimilar in appearance to the newly recast actress whose face the…

If memory serves, most of Hammer's gear did actually work, it was just the things that were supposed to be the big showstoppers that crapped out. It wasn't that he was incapable of making weapons, it was that he overreached when he tried to impress people and outdo Stark instead of sticking to what he was good at. He…

The reviewer could have meant the high school class of '17, but in that case it seems like class of '16 would make more sense, since those are the kids that are freshmen right now.

Well, it says she was in town for "Fashion Week." I don't know what Fashion Week entails, but it sounds like the kind of thing for which if you have a lot of expensive jewelry, you bring a lot of expensive jewelry. Presumably seven times as much expensive jewelry as if you were just in town for Fashion Day.

She did the old "credit card lock pick" trick with the blade she'd picked up.

I like "Ghost Quaker." I imagine it comes with a fun hat and we can make jokes about sowing Ghost Quaker oats.

I believe there were a couple walking along the beach below in the scene where Madison and Alicia were talking on the pier. I wouldn't be surprised if they were there just because someone realized they were about to make an episode with no zombies and no one could remember if they'd ever done that before so they…

I have actually had clerks go in back and return with the item I was looking for, but this was at Best Buy where they always have carts full of overstock DVDs just sitting there in the aisles - I was never entirely certain if those were waiting to get shelved or had just been taken off the shelves or what - so I…

Because it keeps getting better, as opposed to the more popular "keep getting worse" route most similar shows take.

I like to imagine a room full of storks having a heated arguments over whether people should be allowed to cancel their orders.

I remember really liking the show-within-a-show parts of Home Improvement but having no use for the "real world" parts. If they'd re-tooled (wordplay!) the thing to just be a half hour of Tool Time, I'm not sure it necessarily would have worked, but I would have liked it a lot more.

I think the gimmick eventually just became "you never see his entire face." I could swear I remember at least one Halloween episode where you could see his mouth, but the upper part of his face was covered by a mask. Kind of like Kenny on South Park.

Martin Lawrence's sitcom. One of those standup comedian shows where even the people who liked it would probably have to think a moment to remember what the actual premise was beyond "Martin annoys his long-suffering girlfriend." If memory serves, it's main selling point was that Martin would occasionally put on a…

One thing I found fascinating about an earlier French version of Beauty and the Beast that I saw (Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete) is that because French is a gendered language, and the French word for "beast" is a feminine noun, the Beast was always referred to with feminine pronouns. I found it neat because it…

Nah, they've been giving these things out for a few years now.

I wonder if there's anything in the Emmy guidelines specifically preventing someone playing multiple characters - say Tatiana Maslany - from being nominated for Best Lead and Best Supporting awards for the same show. I mean, the awards are for Actor/Actress "in a lead role" and "in a supporting role" and Maslany is,…