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Danny Masterson, the guy who's currently facing charges of raping three different women and who had the Church of Scientology doing its best to intimidate accusers and witnesses into silence? That Danny Masterson?

As a resident of the state I'm not happy about this at all. I hope all the legislators responsible have crackpot doctors who'll only prescribe cod liver oil as a treatemnt for anything that ails them.

I heard plenty of complaints and jokes at the time that Return of the King was too long, in addition to the last few hours of it being devoted to all the fake-out endings. (I'd probably have forgiven all that if Jackson also taken the extra 15 seconds or so needed to replace "I am no man" with “But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund’s daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.”)

The Suicide Squad movie has the benefit of not featuring any characters I actually care about besides Amanda Waller, so chances of me being outraged are relatively low.

It really depends on where they see Dr. Fate standing amongst the ranks of superheroes. The Helm of Nabu is supposed to contain power exceeding that of Darkseid or similar pantheon-leading gods, but that doesn't mean that Kent will be able to use it freely, or without cost. Plus the physical augmentation it grants it wearer, while impressive to the common man, is nowhere near the Captain Marvel/Black Adam level and pointedly doesn't include superhuman speed.

Count Nefaria also strikes me as another iconic Avengers villain just below the tier of the big three. He's appeared in X-Men and Iron Man comics, but he's primarily opposed the Avengers as a team. Obviously he'd translate well to film—just hire Zack Snyder to direct.

Can someone rig the doors so they only open from the outside?

If the character is popular with audiences there's always having him pass the mantle on to Khalid Nassour a few movies down the line when Brosnan is done.

I actually wrote in to comics back in the 90s congratulating the creators for returning Zatanna to her old costume and razzmatazz stage magic style. Admittedly, the medium and Stuart Immonen's art avoided her being objectified by the camera angle being at knee level a meter behind her most of the time. I dread that the way the DC movies do things she'll either be in some kind of BDSM fetish wear or she'll be covered in nothing but grease and shadows like The Enchantress was for the first half of Suicide Squad.

I saw elsewhere on the internet someone remark that one of the hardest things to do in fraud cases is establish malicious intent, and Powell's lawyers are doing so as their defense strategy.

I think it's better than the theatrical release. It eliminates the tonal whiplash, Flash's buffoonery, constant quipping from inappropriate characters, and the tacked-on scenes of rescuing Russian civilians. But it remains a Snyder movie—full of ponderous sequences that are laughable in their pretension; cold, sketchy characterization; shot through a filter that makes everything look like it's covered in gray soot; and slow motion, OMG so much slooooowwwww motion. It also has very little of the warmth and camaraderie that Whedon added along with his pratfalls and unfunny jokes.

I'd have been more than happy to take the J&J vaccine myself if it had been the first available, as I don't have major concerns about riding out and recovering from standard flu-level symptoms if I should suffer them. But my mom's about to turn 82, and I feel much better about her having taken one of the vaccines that's ~95% effective at warding off all symptoms. I don't want to risk her feeling weak and woozy and falling in the bathtub, or anything similar.

I did think Diana was given shorter shrift in Snyder's version than Whedon's, but I suppose with two movies of her own (and one of them the crown jewel of the DCEU), she could stand the loss better than any of the other characters. It's odd to me that I got a less clear impression of her being the team's heavy hitter in the fight scenes though, considering how much she rocked at the end of BvS.

Wasn't there also a line about his sister not being willing to take money from him directly, and it was his attempt to cosign the loan on an unprofitable business that got rejected? That said, I definitely got the feeling that if it had been Steve Rogers or even Clint Barton asking, red tape and barriers to doing a favor for a superhero might have been conveniently pushed aside.

I didn't like Christopher Reeve's portrayal of Clark Kent (though he's still the best ever Superman, imho), but I can't fault Brandon Routh for delivering when asked to imitate it as closely as possible. I've been reading comics with Carol Danvers in them since her team up with Spider-Man against the Super Skrull in the 1970s, and the only time I recall her not being an arrogant hard case was just after Rogue stole her powers and Prof. X had to rebuild her memories from the ground up. Her movie depiction wasn't warm, or soothing to male viewers' threatened egos, but it seemed pretty spot-on in terms of getting her essence from the comics right.

If only it were the good local Mom & Pop doughnut place instead of Krispy Kreme...

I once wrote up the holds-people-motionless option for an occultist villain who used various trinkets and talismans, with the Gestures Limitation indicating lighting the fingers: Hand Of Glory: Entangle 2d6, 2MD, Alternate Combat Value (OMCV vs. DMCV; +1/4), Area Of Effect (8m Radius, Selective; +3/4), Takes No Damage From Attacks (+3/4), Works Against EGO, Not STR (+1/4); OAF (-1), Gestures (-1/4), Mental Defense Adds To EGO (-1/2), 1 Continuing Fuel Charge (1 Hour; -0)

I got a surprise appointment for my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine today over my lunch break. If I develop any amazing super powers as a side effect you guys will be the first to know after my victims! 😈

I suppose it all goes back to that fallacy Starlin had Thanos parrot in the original source material, that life and death are out of balance because there are more beings alive today than have ever lived and died previously. That's not even true of humanity, let alone all the varied life forms on earth and all the other planets that have been born and died over billions of years.

I do think that Death wouldn't have been quite as difficult a buy-in for casual viewers as Eternity, the Living Tribunal, and other Marvel cosmic characters. People have been seeing it personified as the Grim Reaper and such in popular culture for centuries.

Wonderfalls was pretty much my platonic ideal of a television show, but what I've read of Bryan Fuller's sketched-out plans for subsequent seasons makes me think it was better off being wrapped up when it was.

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Hey, if it all started with a bat...

Even the first shot should be pretty effective in reducing your chances of serious consequences if you do contract Covid-19 before the second, so you can start unloading worry now.