Nope, never even heard of it before I saw it on the internet, and then it was mostly men saying it about women. I don't doubt you, but at the same time I don't think it is a good thing from either direction. Saying "I wouldn't want to marry that person or fuck them, and they're boring, so I'd kill them" is kind of…

I think at the deepest level we want it to be good just to prove that "big" movies still can be good. Not tolerable, or as good as possible given the current state of the industry, or not that great but the effects were good, etc., etc.

None of them seems interesting sexually to me, the sex is just there for the sake of making the story "adult". Marriage is foolish in that setting, a good one would be about as bad as a bad one. It's not like as a character anyone would get to choose, anyway, the choices would be made for you, for sex or marriage.

What I hate about spoilers is more about movies, and it's a loss of awe. I hate seeing movies where scenes I would have been so awed by have been shown in trailers over and over and over to the point that sitting in the theater you go "seen that, seen that too, already seen that". Some movies show just about every…

Sorry, but no. I really hate this game, it seems so... gah, ugly in the whole thought process. I didn't like it on principle when it was the Republican candidates, and I don't like it now. When guys play it with female options it sounds so barbaric and awful, and the jokeyness just doesn't change that. I think it…

I do too. Well, I wonder if mine wouldn't be called "reply" syndrome more often, since mostly what I do is blather on about all the reasons why the person in question doesn't really know what they are saying they know.

Yeah, openly racist people make that same argument. Most of the racist people I have met love their counterparts who also marginalize people into racial groups, Louis Farrakhan, for example, because they are "honest", even if their conclusions are the polar opposite. They want those battle lines drawn, because…

Yep, and even the protagonists do some pretty awful things regularly. Heck, they chop off pilot's arm to make a deal for maps, Rigel leaves to sell them out to the Peacekeepers. The most peaceful character in the whole show can be a raging homicidal maniac in the right circumstances.

I think that's a great way to look at things. I think assumptions without sufficient data are patently unscientific, but you won't get a lot of love espousing that around here.

Yeah, just popped it in and there seems to be confusion. Scorpius tells that strange creature gal that owns the shadow depository that she can keep all the slaves except Dargo's son, and then right after Stark does his freakout and on Moya they are saying that Scorpius killed them all.

I'd have to go back and watch that one again. I thought it was one of the secondary baddies that did that.

and sexist, and rapey.

I think part of the problem is our culture doesn't have a whole lot of respect for "I don't know". I've tried pushing the idea of "I don't know" here so often, but then I'm shouted down by people really don't know, but they have a vague idea, or a theory, or can recite someone else's vague theory, etc., etc. ad…

By "we" you wouldn't be talking about me, because I don't. I see no reason for Muslims where I live to condemn crap done by Muslims on the other side of the world. I don't see people in terms of "groups", no matter what ethnicity or religion they are.

You make venues like Fox News and Gawker and the like where the fans spend all their time being outraged never realizing that they are just being manipulated.

I think the whole wiping out the Scarrans thing was more because there was no viable eventuality wherein the Scarrans would actually want to make peace. Their entire civilization was bent on conquest and only checked by power.

I don't think one can really use the same standards when it's a galactic war. Heck, WE can't even use the same standards when wars get big enough just on our planet. The perception of the US in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, for instance. Or our use of carpet bombing throughout the 20th century, or nukes in…

And if said pale folk make a lot of money being thought police, hey, how awesome is that?

I have a hard time calling Scorpius a villain. In the end, he stands proudly, overseeing the formalization of peace for the whole galaxy.

Kind of strange watching a bunch of "Privileged" (gag) people take it upon themselves to be offended for other ethnicities. Seriously, I don't think even Republicans spend so much time telling people what to think.