My understanding from a friend of mine who is heavily into the post-Lexa's death backlash is that, prior to the event transpiring on the show, people involved in production actively went out to LGBTQ forums, Tumblrs, etc., and sought to engage that audience, playing up Lexa and what it meant for representation on The…

And in no way do I want to diminish that. I don't envy that plight at all (although I envy even less the plight of the teenagers in those positions back before the Internet, when finding anyone at all to talk to in any form about your situation was well nigh impossible). And, again, in no way do I endorse the way the…

Cool story about intimacy, bros: I went to see Sigur Ros at the Grand Ballroom in NYC back in June of 2008. During one song (and I can't, for the life of me, remember which one it was), they paused for, like, 30 seconds. Just stood there on stage, in place, and it was like the whole, entire room was holding its…

That's a really bad thing, though, isn't it? Saying it's somehow the writers' fault that a viewer has lost perspective to that degree is a really difficult argument to make and opens up a lot of other cans of worms, it seems to me.

I'm so back and forth on this issue. On one hand, going, unsolicited, to places where underrepresented people gather and saying, hey, we got you, this is totally not going to go the way it's gone before, when you know it's going to go exactly that way, sucks. It really sucks, and it's hurtful in a way that it didn't…

Right, or like saying that the suicide of an ex who kills him- or herself because you broke up with him or her is your fault.

I always enjoyed the work of Soda Popinski in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.

For real. I mean, fight scenes, great, but the degree of difficulty in delivering that hefty chunk of character development and making it as riveting as it was is unreal, and Bernthal just nailed it.

Yet another installment of this feature that wouldn't have been half as annoying as it ended up being if the interviewer wasn't on the exact same page as the interviewee. Everyone's entitled to their opinion of music, of course, but seeing the subject and the writer "high five, bro"-ing each other back and forth about…

Entered the lottery, which took several tries due to the site crashing thanks to overwhelming clickage. I'm very much looking forward to the crushing disappointment of not being selected.

Yeah.

Good actor giving horrible performance = Bad director. See also: Portman, Natalie, in the Star Wars prequels.

While that's appealing on a certain level, it would be nice to see a promising filmmaker *not* be sucked into the licensed film franchise machine for once (see: Duncan Jones, Josh Trank, Rian Johnson, etc., etc.).

No. No, no, no. Watchmen (the film) faithfully recreates the look of Watchmen (the graphic novel), down to specific panels ending up on screen, but it misses Moore's point in egregious fashion. Biggest case in point: The scene in which Night Owl and Silk Spectre fight the gang of thugs in the alley. They break bones…

Burton's Batman is an entertaining film, but a terrible *Batman* film.

I feel like Snyder could be the greatest trailer creator of all time, but ask him to stretch beyond a series of visually compelling images, and he's got nothing.

I've always been a fan of Gran Morrison's All-Star Superman, which published 2005-2008. Definitely check that out for a run that seemed to really get Superman.

Butchered may be the wrong word. I prefer to think of it as the cinematic equivalent of pressing Silly Putty on a comics page so that it replicates a faded version of the image therein. He gets some of the look exactly right, but misses the point by a country mile.

This is some bullshit, right here.

It's not so much Oliver doing it, I guess, as the way people then pass it around with headlines like "John Oliver DESTROYS Donald Trump's wall idea." If I had a nickel for every time someone cited an article, tweet, or video as "destroying" (or, insert your preferred verb/gerund) someone's position on something, I'd…