It's the only memorable theme to come out of Batman v Superman, which should have been loaded with them. (It's called, a little sadly, "Is She With You?")

That's not very positive!

Weird… always figured if they made a Wonder Woman movie in the current day, they'd go with the 2000s-era "Old World warrior" version of Wonder Woman, the grim, peplum version that would do what Superman and Batman wouldn't.

Marvel movie dialogue resembles Whedon scripts much more than Bendis scripts, whether or not Whedon's involved with the movie in question: every "good guy" character tends to speak in an identically smart-mouthed tone, especially if they're under pressure. (Many Marvel comic books picked up this bad habit in the early…

This is kind of like all those comments you always see that complain that a TV critic, assigned to review a show, should "just stop watching" the show if they demonstrate anything short of complete worship of it.

"astro" form

"The Ship" demonstrates how the show had finally mustered some courage in developing Jadzia Dax's character. Previously, she'd been treated (mostly) respectfully but with distance, a sort of unflappable Yoda-type whose character beats usually came through episodes focused on her past lives as Jadzia put them to bed to…

Or, they have no fucking clue what they're doing and "fan theories" are a great way to cover for it. "Lost" got by on that for season after season.

I'd prefer they just ignore it.

One of the most common failures of logic I see is, "This one TV show started out unpopular but turned out to be great, thus this other TV show I happen to like will do the same," completely ignoring that the vast majority of shows that start out unpopular do so because they're weak and have no potential and they get…

Sure, but I wish those comments would stop, too. Most everyone here is bright enough to do something approaching analysis of an evolving work rather than playing in their own little playpen of which characters should make out with each other and who's secretly an alien clone, yet plenty of people do that and instead…

You just ignore the "fan theories" if you want to make a coherent show. Imagine if something like "Deadwood" had pandered to "fan theories" on its way down. Not only would it not have saved the show, it would have ended it in ignominy.

It's an endless chain - every hot "reaction" video gets tons of "responses" that are reactions to the reactions, then reactions to the reactions to the reactions, all out of some misguided belief that it makes them part of the YouTube celebrity's personal fame somehow.

If someone doesn't know about that shit, I think it's nicer to let them believe that it doesn't happen.

Every single "reaction" video, every single "unboxing" video… they seem socially unhealthy to me and repulsive, a form of capitalist-brainwashed twice-removed catharsis that's frightened of direct catharsis. It seems unlikely to serve their fans well in the real world, which tends to be uncomfortably direct and…

It's the "fan theory" mentality that allows people to believe that the people behind Lost had any specific idea where they were headed or what they were doing, let alone any "theory" being "correct".

This is probably the best reason why "fan theories" shouldn't be encouraged by show-runners. They encourage fans to feel entitled to answers to questions that aren't important, "clues" that never existed, etc., and to keep up with that attitude among the viewers, readers or players that keep the property afloat, the…

If it leads to a later realization that mature appreciation of a work transcends trying to play amateur Sherlock Holmes, great. But what I see it actually doing is trapping people, people who might otherwise develop a more personally fulfilling form of appreciation, in a strange little hell of wikis and rivalries and…

Ugh, don't encourage "fan theories".

I think Totilo's "oh well, that's just how it's gonna be, now publishers can say anything so screw us as reviewers and screw people who buy video games" tone was the most disappointing part about that piece.