'Nuff said.

Very fascinating analysis, and I think you're just about spot-on. I'll nominate the name of "Self-Delusional Hypocrisy Meter." Call it the SDHM for short; the internet loves acronyms.

American progressive social-justice types, as mentioned above, tend to have their hearts in the right place. However, they also tend to score highly on a particular metric I've been working on (name pending, suggestions welcome), which goes like this:

Does the character actually have to show up, or is just being talked about enough?

Capaldi eyes are cool, but they have nothing on Tom.
"You know, I think you might!"

Not exactly a face, but the sight of the Alien skull in the Predator ship at the climax of Predator 2 (1990) was a pre-Internet surprise that promised future kickass confrontations between the two fictional species.

Godzilla: Final Wars. When Godzilla confronts an American Identity Thief, and promptly makes quicker work of him than any other Kaiju he's ever faced.

American progressive internet/social justice-y types (just as those in other parts of the world) tend to believe in taking the high road. The opposition uses a lot of dirty tactics, so this could explain why they don't target the correct source.

Here's the thing, what colbert is pointing out (quite effectively due the outrage) is that as a general culture Americans don't get offended by certain racism or slurs over others even though they are JUST as offensive. People passively allow a team to be called the redskins. I mean HONESTLY-can you imagine a team…

The fucking owner of a team called the goddamn WASHINGTON REDSKINS started a charity FOR NATIVE AMERICANS that uses the word 'REDSKIN' in the name of the charity and that is shitballing ridiculous.

Here are two things I'm pretty sure I know to be true:

Rom and Nog of course! Barely one note characters at first but then worked themselves up to be something great.

Damar. From Gul Dukat's unnamed lackey to hero of his people—and believable all the way through.

When the "oh whine whine I come from a society that still uses rockets!" pitiful odd-boy-out....

Henchman 21 aka Gary

I was with you until the, "humans only use 10% of their brains" nonsense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_perce…

I'm so tired of the "humans use 10% of their brain capacity" nonsense. It wasn't accurate in Limitless and it isn't accurate in this. Come up with some other pseudoscientific reason someone has superpowers.