Should every comic book adaption to the screen stay true to their comic book quirkiness? If the answer is yes then that’s a boring and limited take. There is nothing wrong with making “some” of the comic book characters gritty and grounded. You can’t eat Filet Mignon everyday. Diversity is the spice of life. Besides,…

Then... don’t watch them?

That’s one thing that was great about the Netflix shows was it was a vastly different approach within (sort of) the same world. If “dark and gritty” didn’t do it for you, then you aren’t missing any important connective tissue by skipping.

Those of us that loved the tone had Marvel branded…

frustrating, incoherent, pretentious, badly paced

What I liked about the series was not the plot. I hated the ending.

How? It's in no way or Form a legtimate show, fanservice is its sole basis

Exactly. Evangelion is a meandering, slog of pointless dialogue and dead end plot points intermixed with a few interesting mech fights. The ending makes very little sense and the entire time you just want to slap the s*** out of the main character. At the same time, it’s an interesting and important view into…

The original manga has an extended hardcore lesbian sex sequence which has so little to do with the plot that it was cut from the original English release and most readers didn’t notice anything was missing.

I think the term “cult classic” can have a couple definitions, and you each were arguing a different one. On one hand, it could mean that it has extremely devoted followers regardless of popularity. On the other hand, it could mean it has a dedicated fanbase but was overlooked by the mainstream (which NGE was…

While I’ll concede Madoka Magica is the trope codifier for that particular genre of magical girl anime, I want to point people to Mai Hime. Although my friend will also point to Legendary Girl: Utena.

I literally told my wife yesterday that Evangelion is an anime I don’t like, but I respect it.

When one of your parents is an awful human being, it’s OK to say so out loud. See how that works Ivanka?

I think we’re at the stage of the origin story where the whole of Gotham loves the Penguin.

So if you use my website once, I have full rights to your personal information in perpetuity with no compensation to you for any benefit I might derive from its use. And you never have any opportunity to revise those terms. That seems like a reasonable arrangement to you?

But I appreciate your concession that a capitalist society is fundamentally an insane one.

No. Everything about me that isn’t part of the public record belongs to me and I get to decide who is allowed access to that information. If I allow you make money off of it I need to get a cut of it.

So... you want a medal or something?

If ever a walled garden needed to come down, this is it. Time for an open source solution, where all sharing is controlled by the user and no one else, and we get to pick our hosting providers. I would subscribe to a service that did that.

The whole gateway thing comes from unscrupulous dealers lacing weed with harsher shit in order to get them addicted to more expensive stuff. The logical solution is to make weed legal so it can be regulated and people can be reasonably sure they’re getting clean weed, but that doesn’t fit the “all drugs are evil”…

My take, regarding the gateway: anyone I’ve known who crossed the gateway were going to dive through it, weed or no.

If the gateway theory has any merit (and I think it may), the gateway drug in America is alcohol, and that’s only true because of the ridiculous regulation we still have, which is a leading cause of binge drinking.