Noticed this earlier this season.
Female villain, most of the key supporting characters.
Even in cases like Varrick, he's a genius but a scatterbrain who needs hyper-competent Zhu Li.
And Suyin's husband is a genteel non-bender. Her sons are non-assertive.
They even moved Kai offstage.
The only character with typical…

Except they got pitched a series deal after 'season 1' which wasn't supposed to be a series, just a one-shot. But sure, ok.

well, once we begin space exploration & colonization (I am being wildly optimistic, bear with me), we'll fairly rapidly run out of names for celestial bodies. Some sort of numeric indexing system will be inevitable. But just as inevitably, there will be regional names - human nature being what it is and probably…

Defintely Bonnie. I've been on her since before she pulled that shit at the police station. Never trust the quiet, skulky ones. And she has told at least twice, once explicitly, she isn't what she appears to be. The only mystery for me is her endgame. Is she just flat out sociopathic and manipulating/destroying…

If you think about how it went with Korra learning to metal bend, she learned it just before shit hit the fan. So her repertoire for her life has been water/fire/earth and eventually air.

I was in a discussion about this and someone pointed out that there are a couple lines that indicate that the airbenders were only patrolling unconsolidated areas and whatever places in the world that they were called in. Also, my guess is these camps are not out in the open.

She said as much. And she, like everyone from the Red Lotus encounter knew Korra was convalescing. But still even knowing that, she had no idea about Korra's inability to use the avatar state.
That's the megalomania. She believes her destiny is to be this Great Uniter and that all obstacles will either remove…

megalomania, kuvira has it.

yes, I am cringing. I actually cringed my brain into forgetting this was something that was happening. So, thanks for that.

yeah those shows are so good, they're throwback good. R&M season one was so flawless, I'm worried about season 2.
If Venture Bros ever, EVER returns, it counts as the other bright spot in a sea of meh. I can't be mad at metalocalypse or china, il even those aren't my flavor.

I suspect we're in the majority. But that won't be the case in these comments, which is fine. Everyone has fans, no matter how weak the product.

Tim and Eric are terrible and have always been terrible and their cruddy hackney-masquerading-as-stoner humor is what dragged Adult Swim down.

I disagree with your reading of BMO in this episode. You went WAY too deep.

Well, in the 80s, the Cosby Show found the sweet spot but when the spin-off A Different World came along, it tried in its terrible first season to repeat that formula (hence, Marissa Tomei) but quickly they just played to their core audience.
Yeah, it's a rarity and I'm most curious to see if the topics being widely…

black child who got whupped with a hot wheels track here. Yes, where and when I came up, hot wheel tracks were the urban equivalent of the tree branch. The actual rule was, whatever was closest and could be swung repeatedly. I'll spare the list but I will say this: mom whupped me more than dad but dad's whuppings…

why does Star-Lord look and sound like a douche jock? Why is that forever the go-to hero template? I was enjoying the clip right until his voice cut in and then his mask disappeared and I suddenly felt like I was watching a new CW show.

Agree with all of that. I wasn't accusing the show, just acknowledging that was a bit of objectification, which is a-ok.

Well, I was in a discussion last week with someone, I believe on this message board wherein I opined Dre needed a more-black friend at work (or a neighbor) who would be that would be that tug helping exploit his insecurities about his own (and by extension, his family's) blackness. We got that this week but not in…

This is genius. Tweet it to AA or TER. It'd be even better if there was a black coworker/neighbor who is just like Dre except he gets the reference and is forever unintentionally making Dre feel self-conscious about his blackness. Imagine if he has a poker night but then his friend hosts a Spades/Dominoes night.
I…

yep, still nope to this.