"A little OT, but the whole problem with Doomsday is that, in the comics, he kills the "Ultimate Good Guy" (that's Superfeller, to you).But on Smallville, he just, you know, is the latest in a whole series of folks to kick Clark's whiny patoot."
"@crashfrog: Well said!I have never understood the objections to people who find "slick and shiny" to be sterile and prefer their aesthetics a bit more whimsical."
"@Xmar: Yeppers, that's the Fox Story (20th and 21st centuries).The prollem, sez I, is that the movie industry is run like an industry, and not like Spanky and the Gang puttin' on a show in the neighbor's barn (Darla sure can sing, cain't she?).Bean counters and the cigar-chomping stuffed shirts who boss them are the eminances-gris behind all those lively, lovely fantasies we spend our allowances on, come the week-end."
"Wow, David Drake's "Surface Action" (published in 1990) had battleships on the "oceans of Venus" (okay, so the only ocean on Venus may be an ocean of lead) that used railguns as main armament, with lasers for taking out flyers and smaller surface targets.Drake must have a crystal ball.I believe it's the left one."
"I remember that Playboy ran a "Girls of Flash Gordon" piece that ended up being the most compelling (is that the right word?) marketing tool for the movie ..."
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