They were basically Skrulls, but the Ultimate version of the Skrulls, called the Chitauri, used so that Marvel could claim them as falling under Avengers IP rather than FF IP, which is still held by Fox. Various inconsistent claims have been made regarding Skrull gender/sexuality in the comics. /nerd

It's also just the case that Cohen really, really hates Arabs and Middle Easterners in general. If you've ever heard him speak off the cuff about Arabs or the Middle East, the man is a huge fucking racist.

I've got bad news for you: Bruno didn't miss its mark at all. Cohen's a hipster homophobe in the same way that he's a hipster racist, and the thin gloss of "I'm only mocking gays for the irony of secretly mocking the homophobes" is what's made him palatable to the PC crowd in the past.

Let's see… so far Cohen has made a living portraying stereotypes of Blacks, Eastern Europeans, gays, and Arabs.

Why did he marry Trudy? For money. Pete's family had a name and a vanished fortune; Trudy's dad had wealth. Pete's marriage to Trudy has always been about business. And his cheating on her - which dates back to the very beginning of the first season - has less to do with anything intrinsic to Trudy (hell, we're never…

@avclub-8202f6b7a98c7a01436b44aa2d1e7a04:disqus - Nah, I don't think so at all. That scene came not long after Cersei gave that speech about never loving anyone but your children. I think she has some affection for Jaime, but it's nothing like love - and now that their relationship is out in the open, that…

@avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus BUT DAMMIT, if you download images of paintings off the internet, FOR FREE, without paying the FULL AGREED-UPON PRICE SET BY THE FREE MARKET, then you are ENJOYING ART WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT, and are stealing from Art! (and the corporations that own it) How will we ever…

Greek Catholic? WTF? Do they even make those? I thought it was all Orthodox over there.

@avclub-534b36b22aab256cdb15c38b66ea1a74:disqus - yeah, here's the thing, asshole: I have dozens of conversations every day with ordinary flesh-and-blood human beings in which they do not actually joke about raping other human beings. If you told rape jokes in the "actual legal or business world" with the frequency…

Eh, it's about time to put this one down anyway.

"Palestinian Chicken" was a weirdly random one to get an A+.

I always thought that was a really dumb and childish response to an artist's decline. The flaws in the original Star Wars trilogy were always apparent - did you not notice that the Ewoks kind of sucked until after you saw Jar Jar and midichlorians? And while the Ewoks would always kind of suck whether or not "Phantom…

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The one thing I'd say is that the AV Club comments section is a very unrepresentative sample of the male population - which is to say, it overrepresents assholes, and in particular, sexist, misogynistic assholes. Most people who object to the kind of sheer, unadulterated sexism and misogyny that's casually displayed…

I'll second the recommendations of By Night In Chile and add in Nazi Literature In the Americas. It's true that Nazi Literature isn't a standard narrative, but it's still amazing - imagine a leftist, more contemporary Borges, and you start to get the idea.

Naaaaaah, it's about racism.

You don't gotta be a hipster to like awesome shit.

I doubt that there's anything that suspect in Shae's backstory (and I REALLY doubt that she's either secret royalty, or has some secret connection to Talisa). But her presence in King's Landing is undoubtedly going to blow up in Tyrion's face at some point - they've been foreshadowing that since the end of season 1.

I suspect that Theon, and the Greyjoys in general, are fucked in the long run. In a world where power is cultivated by maintaining a careful balancing act between fear and loyalty, the Greyjoys have cultivated an ethos of backstabbing assholishness - and who wants to fight for that? Is any Greyjoy going to be able to…

Don't fuck with peasants - they've got hammers and sickles and shit.