There’s five episodes before Christmas (including these two) - I wouldn’t be surprised if they completed an arc by then, taking advantage of the midseason break the way the last season used its breaks to split the narrative.

It’s possible to have one or two older characters in main/recurring roles - the trajectory of most of the non-Bartlet characters would have likely kept them in politics (or big business) for the rest of their life. But it should definitely be a mostly new main cast... and it’d be pretty depressing to see any of the…

It really bugs me that they refer to Stein’s grandfather as ‘Sir Stein’. He’d be ‘Sir Henry’ or ‘Sir Henry Stein’; the honorific goes with the first name, not the last.

We all make mistakes, but they’re rarely as hilarious as your one here. Thank you for that XD

I think it’s unlikely there’ll even be so much as an unofficial party line about what went wrong - has anyone really been given blame for MoS, BvS or Suicide Squad? I mean, we all know who’s at fault (the many, many people at fault), but it’s not like WB/DC felt the need to throw anyone under the bus for it. And…

I noticed it as I was writing but wasn’t sure how to draw attention to it without distracting from my main point. Thanks for covering that for me ;)

...Deliberate misinterpretations of human nature designed to demean others are not jokes, no matter how many quotations you put around part of it. And you have a bizarrely specific stereotype for people who don’t get your ‘jokes’.

Hell, why even bother with ‘male’? Just assume everyone is a man unless they say otherwise. You’re either normal or you’re ‘female’, and why should normal people need to be labeled when it’s so much easier to label everyone else?!?

I agree it was kind of rubbish, but not really for the same reasons you do. Your first point I don’t agree with (it’s just a stylised look - Aquaman gets even skimpier treatment in the DCEU); your second is valid yet, to me, inconsequential; your 3rd I wasn’t that bothered by; and 4th, I dunno, being obviously CGI…

You know what, I really like the idea of giving Apu another job. It’d be tricky given his love for the Kwik-E-Mart (there’s a song and reprise about it, for Pete’s sake), but not impossible. I’m all for The Simpsons making changes - when Marcia Wallace died I would have preferred her character and the entire Flanders…

As others have said in these comments, David Suchet’s Poirot is definitive, so if you can get those, check them out (not all perfect, but scarcely bettered on screen). There’s a very good chance that Suchet will match the Poirot in your head pretty closely. 

“The Game of Faces. I ask questions and have to tell if your answers are lies.”

I see your point, but, again, Community was doing this from the start by network mandate. I guess it’s arguable that NBC were more concerned with Community fitting their quota while Adult Swim is more concerned with it having more proven talent behind the screens, but if so then I find it curious that corporate…

I can’t remember if it was in an interview or on the DVD commentaries, but Dan Harmon had an interesting comment on this kind of thing for Community. I may be misremembering some of it, but I believe it went thusly: As a smaller show, the network(/studio?) used it to try and up their diversity quota, and so insisted…

Ugh, this site. Just let him make his point. He can be wrong about it - hell, Colin Baker immediately picked him up on it - but he wasn’t being callous about it. In fact it seems to me he was pointing out the other side of Colin Baker’s own point, who cited his daughters as a reason for wanting a female Doctor.…

...huh? The joke is pretty obviously ‘Trump would do anything for Putin’, not ‘Trump is gay’. Yeesh. Maybe try to understand the joke next time before assigning it ‘homophobic’ simply because the specifics render it about a homosexual act.

Ugh. ‘Murica.

That was fucking inspired, thank you.

Hey, I adore Schulz’s work, and I think he was great for including Franklin even when he knew it would piss some off. But he COULD have done more. I’m not saying that he SHOULD have done more, or that he was a bad person for NOT doing more, I’m just acknowledging basically what the article does, that there would have…

Yeah, and it would have been hard to give Franklin any more interesting traits, for fear that it would be seen to be representing an entire race. Perhaps a better way then (as Glickman had suggested earlier) would be to introduce a more major black(/minority) character later on, with a full set of quirks free of the…