I have several questions but first among these is this: if The Beast was aware that he was in a time loop and got his hands on Quentin in the classroom, why didn't he kill Quentin right then?

Ember, I think? I think Umber is dead. Anyway, he looked like Mr. Tumnus gone to seed. If budget was that much of an issue, they should've gone the Aspect route, which is the idea that a deity can take on different forms but only shows its true form when it is manifesting its full aspect.

That Ram would have been a bottom look on Face Off.
Honestly, at best he reads as a Satyr. And my understanding is he should have been gold. Maybe literal gold looked ridiculous but they could've given him the Doc Savage treatment or something so gold became just poetic language.

YES! Yes, yes, yes.

I can't think of other examples this specific. Of course, ideas(especially apocalyptic events) are appropriated as soon as they appear, such as robots overthrowing humans or zombies or global pandemic.
The idea of The Purge is most clearly interesting when you can mine veins of resentment (whether it's across broad…

Seemed like the "dick move" angle was just him framing his pitch. It's a rite of passage (an unpleasant one, but that's the nature of such rites), but he's saying she's ten years in, so that just seems like disrespect. Now presumably, he doesn't know why she's getting this treatment (not that the reason is…

You're right but what's interesting about that is, she owns her part in that because she did influence Jimmy to take a job when that is clearly not what he wanted to do. She made him return to that world knowing the risk. Now, Jimmy still has to own his choices but she does have some responsibility.

Yep, that shared origin is what I was referencing. And I have to admit that I watched season one of DD with an eye open for any turtle easter eggs. To their arguable credit, I found none.

Ninjas are a big part of the DD mythos. He was trained by a ninja assassin (Stick), and his gf is a ninja assassin and one of his largest antagonists in the comic is a ninja assassin cult (The Hand).
As an aside, that's why the *ninja* turtles, and they're trained by Splinter and their antagonist is the Foot.

Hasn't been released yet. Reviewers were given 7 episodes.

ahhh, I missed that. I thought all four kids were his. So, the older two kids are whose? And where are their parents?

That's roughly where I was … well, no, you've done a lot more pencil work than I did. I was only at thinking Martin is the Beast (we don't see him die and he was abused and he also seemed barred from Fillory).
My theory is he used his dad's research and something his sister brought back from Fillory at his request to…

Great episode, although the group separation in the haunted house had me do a minor eye roll.
And my "magical negro" sense had begun to tingle the moment they walked in that room but I think the writers were aware of that racial trope and did an interesting if not 100% successful inversion of magical power to…

I'll try again: kendynamo was being sarcastic.
The second part of my initial comment was self-referential and self-deprecating.

I say decline the five grand, very respectfully, and still take gun charge.

Actually, your comment was good and helped me identify my issue with the term and why this wasn't mansplaining. Chuck condescends to everyone not just women. If mansplaining is meant to classify a male micro-aggression of presumption of female ignorance, this clearly isn't that.

That's his crit, that the reviewer is calling something mansplaining that isn't. Is this mansplaining? I honestly have no idea.

Yeah, I've pretty much accepted this will be similar to what's going on with Lucifer, something inspired by the graphic novel but completely unable to approach the material faithfully in tone, visuals or characterization.
Which doesn't mean it will be a bad thing!
And at least with this, the adaptation will be close…

CUP THE BALLS

Indeed, as do we all. We're awash in content.