Then why do they use a 5-point scale? pass/not pass would be much better.

There wasn't as many extremely rich and powerful people about then, with the ability to influence the courts and scour the globe for people with potential libel cases to take to court in the past. The world is a lot smaller, and the resources of the rich much larger compared to the people they will sue. In the end,…

The hate-on for Gawker is strong here, it seems. Not sure why, this site must be much more reactionary than I remember. Gawker went down in coordinated attack by a horribly misogynistic billionaire that wanted revenge for a slight that happened years ago, and this is somehow a good thing?

Why? They were fighting literal monsters like Peter Thiel. Anyone that is on the opposite side of that woman hating, regressive asshole is in my good books.

Your understanding of the movie is as flawed as your argument.
The concept of gravity, or relativity, or newtonian laws of motion, can be observed by everyone, but without understanding of the language of those concepts, they are meaningless.

This is an absurd claim. There are plenty of people that are unable to feel pain, but it would still be a crime to rape and kill them. Not to mention, you cannot use laws governing this in society today to compare with the advent of actual AI or even a close approximation. If your car was able to speak and show…

Yeah, this may actually be a problem for me. I find faith healers harder to relate to than eveb drug dealers or hitmen.

The gems and gem-related things (like monsters and dangeorus ruins) have been on Earth longer than most civilizations. It is likely that they are just being ignored by everyone, it is part of this worlds culture.

Look, I don't want to rattle anyone's cage, but I've been told several times by TWO people that this show ripped off several other writers who had their material copyrighted first and had been passing around their materials in Hollywood…..

Filler is such an idiotic concept. It actually makes me angry when people use it, it denigrates every episode that is not about "plot", as if they are inherently superior.

Great plan, except for a few problems. Often, replication studies are very expensive, requiring a team of experienced scientists with complicated instruments to repeat (since the original study was conducted that way, and any deviation will be seized upon to defend the first study). Secondly, your grad school work…

What good writing? Karen's article was about the level the show is at. They had Electra and The Punisher and the concept of vigilantism as their storyhooks, and they failed at telleing a compelling story completely.

Does not make him a hero, though. Makes him an asshole bully with a stupid-looking suit. Maybe he should consider some therapy instead of beating people up?

Your first problem is "Asian Death Cult", given that Asian covers more cultures, languages and ethnicities than anywhere else on earth. Then, the Oritenalism comes in, mishamashing stereotypes of Japanese and Chinese culture into something completely unrecongnizable and absurd as a subsitute for actual motivations and…

It is possible to make evil japanese villain without also doing "all Orientalism stereotypes at once" as the only character building.

Or maybe, just maybe, this season is pretty bad? Especially the Hand plotline? Might be on to something here.

What if it a piece of art is not good and does not work? What should a critic do then? Or are you of the opinion that all art is good and works, thus negating the need for all opinion in a storm of relativism?

I am just waiting for Kenny to show up, the original Boatmaster!

And to think, she went from awesome post-apocalyptic Warlord with a gorgeous and murderous girlfriend/potential queen to this. Pretty bad come-down.

Agreed.