Roseanne Conner is a once-progressive woman who slowly succumbed to the fear-based appeal of conservative propaganda, currently embodied by our groper in chief. I find it very true-to-life and honest to depict a white senior citizen whose politics have become wholly more right-wing than they once were; similar people…

Same principle and same storytelling beats. But it is different because it’s a pet — part of what made John Wick memorable is that it twisted the revenge motive cliche. Despite John Wick having a dying wife in the opening scenes.

A lot of “fridging” is tied to what the expected roles are for women in action genres —…

I haven’t read it. The summary from wikipedia highlights why it could be considered a fridging. It’s a genre thing — an easy way to provide motivation, create a fresh start, etc is to kill a supporting character. And many supporting characters are women because the main characters are usually men. 
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A woman (usually the girlfriend) of the hero is killed to provide motivation and strong emotions for the hero early on in the story.

It came from comic books, since creative churn frequently led to new writers clearing out the supporting characters when they took over a character — and the easiest way to get a ‘good…

I was slightly surprised they didn’t hang a lampshade on Deadpool’s character motivation being a “Women in Refrigerators” cliche. Mostly because I was really annoyed with the cliche as a motivating factor.

The best movie adaptation of a typical role-playing campaign I’ve ever seen.

The pirate crew’s archetypes were mostly reused for Firefly.

“Team LMS was in the sixth inning, ahead by four runs, stands were packed and then for no reason, they call off the game,” he said in a statement, employing an elaborate baseball metaphor.

Like, sure, paying people for insights and lobbying or whatever is common.

The “concealing mist” trope in comics is sometimes hilarious.

After reviewing a few ‘jokes’ from Miller on Pelosi, I have to conclude that they are mean spirited but not very brutal. They are also very generic — the lines could be applied to any female Democratic legislator older than 50. For example— “shrieking harridan magpie”.

Wasp really is much more competent than Ant-Man in every way. Not really complaining, just keeps making Michael Douglas look dumber in the first movie for not agreeing with her that she should do the heist.

Pym particles are magic and can grow or shrink things. The basic rules are that if something grows, it becomes really strong and massive but not heavy enough to actually sink into the ground. If something shrinks, it’s strength and mass are variable depending on the needs for the scene.

My outrage over the WHCA dinner has now landed on it being very difficult to find a transcript of Trump’s rally from the same time and he asked “If there are any Hispanics in the room?” before launching into praise of Kanye West.

Actually, Comey is bad.

“Two agents having an affair confirmed their bias towards Clinton via text”

1. Trump tells Comey to investigate it because of the potential blackmail.

I hope this season has “Character development” as opposed to last season’s “Characters explicitly can’t develop because they aren’t sentient yet”.

Yes.

Didn’t he rearrange some planets to spell his name to impress her? Which ... well, you’d think spelling HER name would be more appealing.