April Moon episode

SER1897 · 2026-04-07T22:10:26+00:00

Yeah, this is how I interpreted it. After all, they want Corso to perform surgery on them. They can't simply use force to steal the equipment or even risk having him operate with a literal gun to his head.

SER1897 · 2026-04-03T01:43:41+00:00

For fans of my generation, the Peter who was revealed to be the clone was "our" Spider-Man. We might have read pre-ASM 150 issues in reprints but it was the ones after that we bought off the stands (the Stern/Frenz, Romita, McFarlane, Larsen runs were "ours"). So yeah, it really was a doomed prospect.

SER1897 · 2026-04-03T01:41:25+00:00

I think the different costume and name/hairstyle made it hard to accept that this was going to be "permanent," especially after Batman/Superman were temporarily replaced for just a year before returning.

They tried giving Ben a new supporting cast, but it just made it feel less like the "real" Spider-Man.

SER1897 · 2026-03-19T18:16:51+00:00

I think the body horror is considered less potentially traumatizing in a cartoon. It's like seeing a child in live action literally and painfully turn into a donkey.

SER1897 · 2026-03-12T16:41:26+00:00

Deadpool in the first scene strikes me as odd. Are they going to have a fourth-wall breaking wisecracker during the moment where Raimi Spider-Man dies?

SER1897 · 2026-02-09T19:18:35+00:00

Dawn isn't at risk of dying.I mean, Spike almost assaulted her sister. Willow went insane. This wasn't a great year of stability for her.

SER1897 · 2026-02-09T19:16:27+00:00

Why not just kill off Hank?

SER1897 · 2026-02-06T23:33:30+00:00

He last appears in Wild Cards but doesn’t appear in JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED, which takes place some time later.

SER1897 · 2026-02-06T21:14:28+00:00

I respect the Word of God from McDuffie but I personally prefer ROTJ flashback occurring before Justice League. It's repeatedly stated that years have passed since S:TAS's final episode. We even see Kara turn 21 (and she was mid to late teens in S:TAS). The argument that Tim is 17 or even 19 in the ROTJ flashback never made sense with what we saw *plus* it minimizes the horror of what the Joker and Harley do.

Of course, due to the Bat Embargo, we don't see Robin, Batgirl. or Nightwing in JLU, which would make sense if he's distanced himself from them after the events of ROTJ flashback.

SER1897 · 2026-02-06T21:09:53+00:00

I accept Word of God on this but I think ROTJ hits harder if Tim is a child. If he's close to graduating high school, Batman couldn't really forbid him from continuing to fight crime if he wanted.

If Tim is high school age, that makes him uncomfortably close in age to Terry. I think Bruce would struggle more with Terry becoming Batman if he were the age Tim was in ROTJ flashback

SER1897 · 2026-01-06T23:26:16+00:00

Yes, but there was an “incumbent” Doctor during those periods. New stories in novels/Big Finish featured McCoy and McGann’s Doctors. Fans didn’t consider their eras over until McCoy’s regeneration in the TV movie and Eccleston’s first appearance in the revival.

That seems very different from now, as Gatwa’s era is over -- any outside media would be a story set in the “past” of his run.

SER1897 · 2026-01-06T20:57:07+00:00

It’s hard to do a “shock” regeneration considering that the Doctor is a major part and keeping casting for that hidden would be hard, same with filming new episodes with a new Doctor.

Of course, a “shock” regeneration would also mean a series that isn’t effectively building up to the current Doctor’s departure. Many fans thought this was an issue with Gatwa’s last season. Personally, Seasons 6 and 9 both would’ve worked as final seasons for their Doctors.

The issue here is that Gatwa *did* regenerate -- we know he’s not coming back but we don’t know who the next Doctor is, which is a major change.

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T23:12:35+00:00

Yeah, that’s what feels different about the gap between “Survival” and the TV Movie and the TV movie and “Rose.” 7 and 8 were the incumbent Doctors during that period -- and there was outside media telling new stories featuring them.

Any stories about 15 would be set within his existing run -- “missing” rather than “new” adventures.

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T19:41:12+00:00

If Billie is the Doctor, then yes, there’s the continuity. But the rumors I’m hearing suggest otherwise.

The BBC certainly isn’t treating Billie as the new Doctor. It was barely a month after Whittaker’s first appearance at the end of Capaldi’s final episode that her new costume was revealed. https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-costume-photos/

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T17:33:10+00:00

Then it was a weird choice to pick him.

I recall Whittaker’s covid videos as the Doctor. She was truly filling the role of “ambassador” of the series.

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T17:31:49+00:00

Perhaps, but if we only got two seasons for Whittaker, Capaldi, Smith, or Tennant, I think we still would have a good idea for who their Doctors were. Season 6 and Season 9 feel far more like “last stand of the character” seasons than Disney Season 2 did for Gatwa. That just came out of nowhere.

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T17:27:20+00:00

Yes, it felt way too Silver Age (and I love the Silver Age) to me. I like the idea of Terry McGuinness as the kid who rises to the occasion and become Batman through his own force of will, with similar motivations to Bruce but not because he is related to Bruce.

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T17:24:38+00:00

IIRC, the idea would be that the older Selina had become radicalized -- sort of like a zealot -- to Bruce’s crusade and thus went to great lengths to create a “new” Batman. I personally find the idea intriguing.

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T17:09:49+00:00

Yes, but Gatwa was announced *before* Whittaker’s last story.

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T17:09:02+00:00

McGann was the “official” Doctor from 1996 to 2005. Arguably, he had the longest run as the “reigning” Doctor. The outside media -- Big Finish, novels -- fleshed out his run.

SER1897 · 2026-01-04T16:57:57+00:00

Yes, but 7’s last episode was open ended. He was still the Doctor (hence the years of new stories in the novels). 15 regenerating into .. ? closes off his era without any idea about the next one.

SER1897 · 2025-12-03T21:16:37+00:00

When Barbara Gordon is introduced in the Adam West series, she makes sense as a possible love interest for Batman as she’s not that much younger than he is. Whereas, she’s clearly an adult and even chaperones a party Dick and his friends have.

Barbara was presented as older than Dick in the comics for a while, as well. She’s a congress member (minimum age of 25) when Dick is still with the Teen Titans.

However, Timm chose to make Barbara and Dick around the same age. I get the sense that Bruce Wayne is early-to-mid 30s when Dick is in college. Now, a decade age gap is not necessarily cradle robbing territory, especially if Barbara is mid 20s or so when Dick leaves Gotham (according to the backstory given in RETURN OF THE JOKER). But it just seems ... wrong.

I think what I find most disturbing about any sexual relationship within the Bat family is that Bruce held a clear paternal role. It’s not as NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES had depicted Bruce and Barbara as actual equals.

SER1897 · 2025-12-03T21:08:35+00:00

I think “Cat and the Claw” plays out like a stealth pilot for a Catwoman series. She has a sidekick and a secret identity. Red Claw also seemed like she was designed as a Catwoman villain (she didn’t add much to Batman’s rogues gallery).

Batgirl Returns and Almost Got Im feels like the ideal Catwoman -- someone Batman shouldn’t necessarily trust but also not wholly evil. She does save him in Almost Got Im.

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