This, by the way, is probably reason #2 why I dislike the new Trek movies so much (#1 being the Khan debacle, of course). The original Trek series — and the movies — and to an extent the series following it — were optimistic, that showed us a better future, that gave us hope that humanity might not fuck it all up. And…

Captain America is clearly NOT Batman with a shield and no money. Um...super soldier serum? Black Widow is the most comparable Avenger to Batman when you break it down. Even the Black Widow-Hawkeye duo. But in a hand to hand fight, Cap would snap Batman's spine(he wouldn't because he's a great guy, but he could).

"I don't mean this as any kind of insult. Most of DC's characters were created in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, where the style was to make superheroes as super as possible. The stories weren't about characters as much as they were about the adventures they went on. Marvel changed all that when they debuted in the '60s,…

The awful lack of optimistic sci-fi is part of why I loved Pacific Rim so much. Yeah, it's robots punching monsters, but it's about teamwork, sacrifice, and fighting to overcome your past.

You sir have lost the right to call yourself a Star Wars fan.

" Latino Review's saying that Affleck will also have a special armored version, with silver-white plates attached to black cloth, with the cloth showing at the joints. "

Because somebody has to:

While I'll miss John Noble as the kinda crotchety kinda sympathetic sin-eater, I am SOOOO glad that the big Jeremy reveal did not go another way. Ahem...

Zuko's character growth is easier to see, and definitely easier to understand, but I really think Aang changed and matured over the course of the series as well. Their arcs mirror each other: Zuko needs to overcome his anger and his tendency to act without thinking, while Aang needs to confront his guilt over a…

I think it is an obvious sign of crapness, or at the very least laziness, to use tools to alter things that are meant to portray reality.

If we consider the protagonist of a story to be the character than changes the most, than I'd say that Avatar: The Last Airbender is really as much about Zuko's hero journey as Aang's.

My favorite thing that happened this week.

Young Frankenstein

i looked into the mirror and the person there told me this was happening and now i live in a house made of marshmallows and angels bring me my food and special magic beans

Those statements by the designer are just straight up not true. I thought she was talking about a sequel until I clicked the link. You play as Ellie twice. Once is when Joel gets hurt saving Ellie and she needs to find him food medicine (hijinx ensue). Then, at the end of the level, shocker, she gets cornered and…

Ellie didn't have the choice though. That was taken away from her by Joel. He also lied to her in the end.

"Neonakis railed against the Times review of the game, which singled out another male character Joel as the story's star but Neonakis says that the real protagonist is Ellie, who begins stereotypical but blossoms into much more."

Baby. Bathwater.

I mean, that wasn't what I was saying, but now you've put it out there, it's what I'm going to be saying.

I completely agree with this. I think we go really overboard a lot with how quickly we want everything resolved now now now now now! There's no empathy that perhaps just as you are having a bad day so is someone else. Or perhaps that person is having an even worse day.