Fuck this site. They are censoring my posts. Never coming back.

It was amusing to watch. She's always getting cock-blocked. Or cunt-blocked, perhaps.
Huh. I got a "Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by A.V. Club." Prudes.

I wouldn't know if this is worse than the Frozen arc, but then again I had high hopes for that and no hopes for this, so I guess there wasn't as far to fall. Frozen at least was redeemed by its main guest stars, as well as its story of Emma learning to control her magic. This is redeemed by a bit of Zelena snark, with…

Is Cookie Monster forgetting he sign in under different name.

The 3D made several matte paintings look like matte paintings (flatte paintings) and several times people in the distance looked more like dolls than people. It did not do a thing for me.
Never got the hatred for more frames per second, however. The more the merrier, and maybe the screen won't judder on pans (for…

I have not read the novels, so cannot discuss the series in those terms. If you can find a quote like the one you reference, that would be interesting, but the extent to which it happened is debatable, considering there are quite a few comments (reviews, etc.) talking about how Outlander is different from a lot of…

I'm not sure about this point in time. Post 1789, yes, I think that would be very true, but post Civ. War and Glorious Rev. I am less sure. Especially in France, where, while the younger Bourbons may not have been as commanding as Louis XIV, the kings still enjoyed more power than in England. Mutterings among the…

The problem is more when people who don't like it (which is fine) use hyperbole to suggest it's the worst thing ever, which it clearly isn't, and toss out things like "laughing at the script" to make it seem like they are so very much more clever than either the creators or those who like the show. Overall, it comes…

Yes, originally, although it also came to mean the monarch speaking as the leader of the realm - the "body politic" as well as the actual body.

I think it was more a case of "only the king gets to TOUCH" going on….

Only if you can back up your assertions with actual facts, not opinions or interpretations. Of course, "sucks" is just an opinion, so you will also have to demonstrate to my satisfaction that these changes are objectively negative, AND all without revealing any book spoilers, as I have only just started reading them…

Yeah, I think it's actually a good thing to review this series knowing nothing of the books, because this is NOT the books: it must be treated on its own as a standalone work and not as an interpretation of another work. That has value, but only in terms of looking at how things are interpreted. To judge Outlander the…

Your claim that the showrunners are making this show for adolescent boys and men, for a start. I expect actual quotes from the showrunners, rather than your interpretations.

Troll is probably more accurate. Nothing like claiming something is utterly wretched without so much as an example, let alone an argument. It's purely "this sucks so much - I am so much better than you sheep because I can see how badly it sucks, and you should just take my word for it. Because I'm so wonderful."

Charlie's danger is shown by his insistence that God wants him to be king (or his father to be king). Therefore any suggestion that goes against what Charlie wants is going against what God wants, and therefore is blasphemy. That's the fun thing about religion: without an actual god giving out actual messages to all,…

The amusing part is the constant rants about how cheesy it is or how unrealistic it is just tossed out, with almost nothing in the way of substantiation. Criticism is fine, but the nasty, snide, "I'm so intellectually superior to those sheep who like this" form it takes here is not.

It might have been simpler to stick with the minor mistake….

Hmm. I like the song, and I couldn't carry a tune with a forklift. Luckily I am not a parent and so the 500 times I've heard the song are all my own doing….

It's nice to go from the almost medieval gloom and crudity of Scotland to the glories of the French court under the Bourbons. It's a nice reminder that not all parts of Europe were primitive and semi-barbaric. (But they all stunk in their own ways….)

While an earlier period, there is precedent:
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Far from being a sign of tawdriness, [Angela McShane Jones, a lecturer in history at University of Warwick in Coventry] said breast exposure during the 1600s could indicate a woman's virtue.
"The exposure of the breast was a display of the classical and youthful beauty…