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The Puzzler
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…time loop. Help, I'm caught in a…

It'll be like the Michael Keaton batmobile - the only way to turn corners at speed is to grab on to a lamppost with a disposable grappling hook.

Alternatively:

Ninjas and monks are separate classes. (According to Oriental Adventures D&D supplement, etc.)

I think the issue here is the weird tradition that black guys with superpowers used to mostly have names that reminded us they were black. Black Vulcan, Black Lightning, Black Manta, Black Adam, Black Panther…

There are some pretty good Loki-centered comics. The recent Journey into Mystery, a 2004 mini-series…

There is a lot of intentional moral dissonance in this once. The Doctor wants to save the dalek - he wants to prove it's evil - he wants to destroy it - he wants to save everyone - he's willing to sacrifice anyone - he wants to be good - he doesn't want to have to care - he's grateful to the soldiers - he looks down

The success of GotG show that neither 'having jokes' nor 'using a little known character' are problems.

Everyone know that the fossilization process causes the bones to gradually change size over millions of years.

They live in the Victorian era. Marriages weren't expected to be relationships between equals in that period.
I'm not sure if that excuses anything or not.

They did load the argument against Zaheer somewhat. For example, as soon as the earth queen dies, everyone decides to burn down the city for some reason. Apparently people can't be trusted with freedom; they were better off with an absolute monarch to keep them in line, even an awful one. (Not that doesn't sometime

They had superpowers. That's kind of like a privilege?

(I complain a lot, but it was still an awesome finale.)

I would have liked the evil plan explained sooner, and better. Without knowing what the plan is, I don't know if I'm for or against it, which makes it hard to be emotionally engaged.
And when it is explained, it barely makes sense. The idea that the existence of an Avatar is contrary to the type of anarchism Zaheer

I was thinking last week that all the commenters seemed so excited / worried about Tenzin and whether we were heading for a tragic ending. Really, an antagonist kidnapping the protagonist's friend(s) to force a surrender is just about the biggest cliche in the book, and there's no history of this show killing off good

Most of my relationships have ended up with the girl becoming a terrorist and then her head exploding.

Did she ever actually kill anyone?

There's no death penalty in this Avatar world because no-one knows the word 'kill', only vague synonyms. They'd have to say something like "I sentence you to not survive!"

I seem to recall that Fry was once scared by someone shouting "Bastard pigging murderer!" at him in the street. Only later did he realize he'd misheard someone quoting his "Flanders pigeon murderer" line.