Seriously. No way that character should work on paper, and instead she's the best.

The Chinese restaurant sequence was a highlight for me, and I liked the B-plot that Colleen, Claire and Misty lead in the climax. But goddamn, can fighting ninjas get boring. At least they livened it up with real opponents like Elektra, Gao, and Bakuto.

Yeah, I've been a defender of Jones, but that was really not good. Why did accusatory-phantom Danny and real, guilty Danny speak with the same intonation?

"Almost like a character in its own right" is what Colleen needs New York City to be.

For me what elevated it was the art, and the intensely personal nature of Kyle's arc (which got a lot of attention, I'd argue). It's clear that King brought his own experiences to it, and he's a guy who's seen a lot more than most of us ever will and has a lot to say about it.

It's possible, yes. It's also something we ask far too often of audiences of color, and almost never of white audiences. I'm not pulling this out of nowhere. Complaints along the lines of "the show where they can have dragons but not black people," have been commonplace, and they're not coming from stupid people.…

And how does featuring only white people, minus the Dornish (irrelevant, slashed from their book counterparts), Dothraki (savages), and freed slaves (freed slaves) feed that authenticity in a meaningful way? Is that more important than giving all of your assumptive audience a vantage point? It's not like GoT has any…

Westeros isn't Earth. It is not a real history. Making up ethnicities and tossing them against each other is fine and good in a book, where characters are primarily related to through inner monologue and action. A television show where characters are related to through the actor playing them, produced in a modern time…

He really made a mistake when he got on that horse. It's our one strength!

And most have an odd sense of what's important, and what's not.

The "fantasy of a medieval past" has never been an important element of the show. There's nothing about the Rhoynish migration, or explanations of the Nymeria's namesake. The Briton v. Anglo-Saxon esque dynamic between First Men and Andals is downplayed. There are no digressions into the history of the Free Cities,…

Well, Slaver's Bay is roughly Eastern Mediterranean-ish.

Also, people were outraged by some of the marketing for Man In the High Castle.

Congratulations, you've got me mourning The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency all over again.

I'd normally be in agreement, but to me Jessica Jones was so much about the way that people under threat and in pain lash out (it's often in deeply unlikable ways). So it kind of worked as a plea to empathize with those assholes anyway, because they need help most of all.

I've never cared one whit for Johnny Blaze or Danny Ketch, but I love me some Robbie.

The comic books, with the exception of a few issues (or even the first issue) of a characters' appearance, are like a prolonged second act.

I still resent that episode for its utterly disappointing Bride of Nine Spiders. Hopefully if they choose to do the other Immortal Weapons in the future they completely ignore that ever happened.

I didn't think it could be more distasteful than it looks in print, but then I watched the video of him saying it. What in the everloving fuck, how does a person not spontaneously combust from that much fucking douchiness? That's some Zeus-immediately-lightning-bolts-you shit.

Watch Spartacus instead, you'll like yourself more in the morning.