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No clue if it's still on the slate. Personally, I can't generate enough interest to watch an entire series based on Krypton. A comic story or episode of another show here or there, sure. It's interesting. But a whole show about Kal-El's granddad seems boring to me. But, if they did get it...

I still haven't delved into this show. I have some buddies who swear by it, claiming it to be fantastic. The idea that it's a prequel intrigues me, like SMALLVILLE did, but the fact that so many of Batman's later Rogue's Gallery have already been introduced in various ways seems...strange to me.

You need to recommend some British beers for me. I drink quite a bit of Guinness (for my Irish ancestors), but I feel my English ancestors would like me to partake in something from the homeland, other than bangers & mash (my last name is Leland, after all).

Oh, scotch should always be neat. And bourbon as well, but it mixes so well with cola.

Yeah, the episode with Superman is still my favorite.

I've been told that I can be too liberal. Like, after five or six Jack & Cokes, I get a little too liberal with the Jack. Not really a problem, but as I've found out, once you hit your forties, it's awfully hard to bounce back the next day like one did when they were 19.

Only if we were to discuss it as an oddity, or in conjunction with the original series, and how it could have been better. The premise was good, but the execution was less than stellar. I still think the saddest character was a patient at the VA hospital that Potter was working at. He had...

I think I was about that age when I discovered Hammer as well, and really got into the Universal monsters. But then, by age 3 I was reading Edgar Allan Poe, so my mind was suitably warped. Again, mother always said I was an odd child.

I believe you can still watch them all on YouTube, but the quality is shit. It wasn't a terrible series, but when you follow up a show as brilliant as MASH, you have to do better than they did.

Indeed. They had, within just the first season, pretty much cemented his character. One of those cases where a little knowledge can be very dangerous. What he lacked in medical skills, he thought he made up for with bravado. No common sense, but rather over zealous in patriotism and religious...

Yup. Pretty much right in the middle of the US (don't blame me, I didn't vote for him). Seems to me I was around ten when my folks introduced me the Rocky. Ah, the corruption of the young. :emoji_grinning: And I understand the need to blow off steam. My two are 14 and 17, so they are pretty...

What I loved about the original was seeing Karloff as an actual villain rather than a bandaged monster, as in the sequels. And yet, it worked much more effectively in the Lee version. It would have been interesting to see him as an Ardeth Bey-type character, but the film is pretty solid the way...

I sat and listened to his score for WRATH OF KHAN recently. Still so good.

@ant-mac Excellent work, mate! I'm more than a little envious of your collection, as well. :emoji_grinning:

I agree with @Hux . However, even now, I find the constant mash of forties noir setting and eighties technology a bit jarring. But overall, yes, it holds up.

As a huge lifelong fan of Archie Comics, I had my trepidation about this show. But after watching the pilot, it has quickly become my new guilty pleasure. Sure, so much has been changed from the fun loving teenagers from the original comics, but the new show takes its cues from the new runs of...

Oh hell yes.

I honestly find it truly sad that no one ever places Terence Fisher on any lists of greatest directors of all time. He made some of the greatest horror films of all time at Hammer. If ever there was a director that should be given more praise than he has been given, it is Fisher.

After the Universal mummies dried up and before Brendan Fraser battled CGI sandstorms, Christopher Lee was a new version of Kharis, who was another bandage wrapped monster with lust on his dusty mind. Is it as good as the Universal films? Better? Worse? Is there anything the 1999 version...

I always regarded the first as a classic. Then about a year or so back, I rewatched it on Netflix, and couldn't understand what was that great about it. As you say, there are some powerful and effective moments, but everyone acts like they all took an extra dose of Xanax before they went in...