Well, these comments were exactly as shitty as I expected them to be.

She plays "music," which is a thing the AV Club shows little interest in, as you cannot easily make jokey memes out of it.

What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski?

He's got a portal he's planning to ride into the soul of a small child, a la Being John Malkovich.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus  - "Devil in the Dark," especially, is one of the best TOS episodes, and at times feels like one of classic Who's "base under siege" serials flipped on its head… we open up with human colonists on a distant outpost who are being picked off one by one by a mysterious…

Trek came out of a tradition of relatively progressive sci-fi storytelling (key themes of which included: the future may be better than the present if humanity gets its shit together; racism is bad; people from very different cultures can put aside their differences and work together; war is a disaster that should be…

The impact of When the Wind Blows definitely varies depending on your experience of the Cold War. Growing up in the 80s, I had nightmares of the world ending in a nuclear holocaust on a routine basis, so on finally seeing it I found it both horrifying and heartbreaking. Someone ten years younger than me, though, who…

Really - "Ender's Game" demonstrates that? But "Ender's Game" is all about a paranoid military state tricking child soldiers into needlessly committing genocide. That's not an anti-pacifism story (it's not exactly a pro-pacifist message, either, but the consistent thread running through those books is that different…

It would have been interesting to see what would have come of Steph had the reboot not derailed that storyline. If nothing else, we would've had another female character around, and the Spyral stuff would've felt like it wasn't dropped out of nowhere. This is one of those things that we probably won't have the details…

I'm not objecting to the presence of one or two insane women in a Batman comic. I'm objecting to the fact that the only major female characters in Morrison's Batman run - a run that lasted seven years - are insanely offensive sexist caricatures defined entirely entirely by their sexuality and their sexual obsessions,…

But it wasn't well done at all. It was trite, one-dimensional characterization. And the final issue relies on multiple deus ex machinas to resolve the plot, including one in which a character who's spent almost no time in the comic is dropped into the storyline in order to wrap it up. The basic story was extremely…

I'll grant that Talia was a sexist cliche pre-Morrison, in that she was largely defined by the men in her life (torn between loyalty for her father and loyalty to Batman). But her character was a bit more nuanced, in that she was portrayed as a noble, principled person who frequently disagreed with her father but was…

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus  - Actually, the "search for Bruce" thing starts seven issues into "Batman and Robin." The first three issues are the ones with Frank Quitely and Professor Pyg, the next three issues are the ones with the Red Hood and the Flamingo and the terrible terrible art, and the…

I genuinely liked the Dick-as-Batman run - up until it became all about Dick hunting for Bruce - and, parallel to that, and intersecting with that, Bruce's travel through time to the present, which just ended up recapitulating the characterization from Morrison's JLA run of Batman as an unstoppable demigod who plans…

I sort of half-agree on Morrison's tendency to do downbeat meta-commentary, but… at this point, christ, I am so sick of that. Like, would it kill him to tell a story that's just a story, rather than a comment on a comment on how others have told that story?

So, did anyone besides me find Morrison's run kind of sexist? I mean, crazily, mind-blowingly sexist? He basically re-writes Talia's character completely to turn her into Batman's crazy ex who will literally destroy the world in order to get back at him for breaking up with her, which basically reduces her character…

@e_buzz_miller:disqus Normally Sam would've remembered the old timeline (that is, Jackie getting killed), but in this case, his head was all scrambled from Oswald's personality bleeding into him.

But why is it stupid? Could you tease that out for a bit? I myself don't particularly believe that the US military uses sarin that much, but not because the military has some kind of principled opposition to using chemical agents, or because it's against international law - I mean, the US military seems to pride…

Sorkin's handling of Occupy was bound to be elitist and dismissive, since that's always been his treatment of any social movement that wasn't lead by the baby boomers (history's Second-Greatest Generation!). Are you against land mines? Well, you're just a confused, weepy artsy lady who doesn't know that America needs…

Here's the thing with Sorkin: everything everyone complains about when it comes to The Newsroom and Studio 60 was present in The West Wing (and even, to a lesser extent, in Sports Night) - from the shabby treatment of female characters to the preachiness and the long-winded monologuing to the ham-handed and shallow…