The Ben 10 episode at sxsw was awful, but that's all I know about that series. I thought it was a pre-existing thing, not something new.

I still can't get over how awful Leto's Joker was.

I can't believe there's two of these The ___'s wife/daughter movies in one week! I said it in the zookeeper comments, but if the story is about the woman, make the title be about the woman, not who she's married to, or who her dad is. There aren't any movies called The ___'s Husband. Grr…

You can't separate the law from the society it's part of. When society doesn't think a crime is that big a deal, those crimes don't get prosecuted. Crimes against women, in particular, have very low rates of prosecution and conviction. You know why? Because society doesn't care about those crimes as much as they…

I'm at least cautiously optimistic.

The fact that it's a standalone should help - less brand synergy needed, fewer plot threads that have to be tied into the story. Should make the whole thing more Whedon-y and less Snyder-y.

If people don't care, then they don't believe that it's an awful thing to do. They know that some people think it is wrong, and maybe they do too, but it's wrong like cursing is wrong - something that's bad, but that everyone does anyways. That's called normalization. Actions like abuse should have negative…

It's not about the law, it's about what's right and wrong. If everyone recognized that abuse was wrong, then there wouldn't be so many cases of domestic abuse, especially ones that didn't end in any sort of legal action. Someone involved in the casting of this episode had the choice of finding a different black man…

Can I just say again how much I hate this sort of title structure? If it's about the woman, it should be about her, not who she's married too. I hate any of these "The ___'s Wife/Daughter" titles.

I'm mostly right with you, but wanted to point out that there was also the small number of people actively involved in resistance efforts - people aren't all terrible.

It's certainly easy to make mistakes, but if you're aware of someone's history and choose to ignore it, that's a choice. It's almost impossible that the person who chose to feature Chris Brown on blackish was unaware of his history of abuse - it's too prominent a part of his public image.

I really appreciated Larry Wilmore's show when it was on, because I thought he did a good job of calling people on their shit no matter what (and having lots of female comedians in the cast). His occasional bit where he'd just let Bill Cosby know that "we haven't forgotten about you, a**hole" was really nice, for…

Blacklisting him would signal to him and to others that his behavior isn't acceptable. On the other hand, actively giving him work/money condones his behavior. It indicates that abuse is, if not ok, at least not a big deal.

It's a fine line - it's dangerous to be too black and white when dealing in issues of morality and ethics, and people get to make their own calls about how much or little they separate the art from the artist. I do think that there's less need to ignore the body of work when the artist can no longer monetarily…

No, because John also recognized that he'd done something wrong and showed contrition. Chris Brown has not done either.

The book is cute, but has so little story to it that I didn't really see how this was going to work (and it appears it doesn't). We had heard good things about it from a couple of our animation industry friends, but I'm guessing that's more in relation to the lovely animation set pieces that were mentioned.

You'd think it'd be an automatic feature whenever the review specifically mentions there being lots of plot twists, or a big reveal at the end, but the criteria for when they do one seems to be more when the reviewer specifically wants to talk about some quibble or question that the twist left them with.

Nah, more of a black hole that sucks in any light in its vicinity. The only warm thing about him is all the hot air.

I don't know why everyone always assumes that adults who read YA read it exclusively. I, like a lot of adult fans of sci fi and fantasy, appreciate the diversity, inventiveness, and prominence of female voices in YA SFF, so I read a fair amount of it, but I also read "adult" books. I just don't let snobbery get…

I still appreciated the closure it gave us, but I agreed that it introduced too much new stuff. It might have been more excusable if it'd been a bridge book, and was introducing the new conflict for a continuing adventure, but seemed to be too much for the end of a trilogy.