ugh, yeah. god knows what that's about.

cisco's scienfitic and engineering abilities are basically limitless, and therefore garbage from a story point of view, but he's invented cooler (read: more impossible) stuff from scraps than fitz and simmons with a SHIELD R&D budget.

meh, oliver's whole thing (particularly lately) is that he doesn't really DO the whole "right vs wrong" thing. joe was comparing barry's "do the right thing no matter what the cost" philosophy with oliver's "do what needs to be done" methodology. remember after he swore off killing he still killed vertigo when…

well, i'm not saying it's a home run, but i don't buy that it's a miss either. yes, it's very powerful to hear "everyone woman i know was upset by some aspect of how she was handled", but that realistically can say as much about your community than the thing itself.

can i just say that i love this site? and thanks for not jumping down my throat with vitriol. that's a low bar to be thankful for, but like, i'm trying SO HARD to be respectful to everyone involved and disagree with certain criticism without dismissing the substance behind it and having these discussions online is…

i'll agree that depending on your lens it can read "not great", i won't agree he "fucked it up".

people who try and sometimes fail are held to such ridiculously harsher standards than people who just fart in the face of any attempt at progressive idealism. i guess the rationale is "how dare they falsely claim to be a feminist and enjoy the adulation that comes with it"?

cool beans.

one pattern of behaviour i'm really coming to resent, though, is criticism without due diligence. and a lot of online feminist crit comes from a young audience, an angry audience, and an amateur audience (i.e. not professional critics). this means that lots of things gets caught that stuffy old white guy critics would…

except you'd have that amount anyway, as everyone as a homogenous group would have been waiting for episode 5 in HD OR SD.

normally, i'm pretty on board with sexism-based crit, so i don't want it to sound like i'm coming from a place of "ugh perpetually outraged feminists". but that reading of the scene, to me, has always felt like a nearly intentional misreading. it seemed obvious that she was saying "i'm a monster because i was trained…

i much prefer this answer — i get bored easily by procedural stuff (which is why i gave up on FRINGE for a long time mid-season 1, only to come back to it ages later with all the hype) and although i will sometimes put in the hours if enough people tell me a show is eventually worth it (ARROW, e.g.), i don't want to…

twitter has just democratised outrage. now it's available freely to the public, where before it was only for radio and television personalities and people who wrote letters to the local paper.

and obviously the middle option can turn into either the former or latter if she has the nerve to exercise her right to turn him down.

i'm considering picking up POI based on the hype on this site. does it start good or get good down the line? should i cherry pick some episodes? not seeing every single episode in order when a show isn't that good doesn't bother me like it bothers some people.

you're right; in fairness, the CG is not unskilled work, but it does tend to be fairly lifeless. and if CG quinjet shots are what's eating all the money, show us less quinjet action and put that money where it'll tell some actual stories; into creating an interesting world. i do like the CG around gordon's…

i find the "cat stark started the war of the five kings" narrative a bit trite (and sexist, considering how often people blame fictional women for stuff undeservedly). i mean, anyone who thinks that war wasn't an inevitability as soon as cersei popped out her first incest baby is kidding themselves.

why are you acting like everyone else is the weird one? do you see nothing weird about obsessively measuring and ranking women you don't know by their attractiveness?

buy low, sell high; that's my motto!

when has dan been in it?