We actually watched Rachel/Dev date though. The show isn't really going for the same thing.The Francesca arc is about Dev's infatuation taking him to this emotionally messy situation.

Francesca doesn't fit the MPDG archetype at all. I think we are only hearing that because

I've fine with basically experiencing this as Dev would. Can only guess at why she does what she does. I've never been able to read a crush's mind either. Which is why making a move, and confessing romantic feelings is such a risk.

Francesca never came off as all that different from Rachel to me outside of having an accent/backstory.

If you can't play a superhero or a superhero's girlfriend, what's the point of movies anymore?

Injustice Superman feels pretty solidly in the "Ends justify the means, and the people who oppose me are the real villains, or at best naive and misguided." He's too conceited for self-reflection, not matter how far he goes … and at the moment … I find that sadly believable

- This season had to have been written before Trump won. So they had no idea how doomed we are

We don't identify with Superman's virtue, but fetishize everything about Batman

@Shakes_McQueen:disqus

Has anyone here read Brandon Sanderson's Reckoner's series? It's basically set in an alternate world where people suddenly get superpowers and they ALL go bad, resulting in a post apocalyptic fascist state where regular humans are subjugated. And the heroes are members of a resistance cell that has to outsmart the…

As a black male, this episode felt far far more real than anything I've seen from Tyler Perry

Perhaps.

I'm speaking more to the extremely not feminine way Denise presents herself. It seems bizzare that she acted the way she acted/dressed the way she dressed for all that time without her mother seriously considering if she were gay, and being legitimately surprised when she came out.

Nothing made me take the leap that last two episodes were in December or 2018.

Denise's mom not figuring out her very outwardly butch daughter might be gay was weird. But how everyone reacted afterward looked pretty natural to be given how I've seen friends/family react to people coming out in the real world.

Gee, I wonder what Clarence Thomas related thing could have been fresh in people's minds 20 years ago that would be especially upsetting to a table made up entirely of black women

I'm assuming the 2017 segment of this episode takes place after Episode 10. So this episode is compeltely outside the main season narrative.

Well, in superhero stories there is always that very potent "the bad guy will just break out" factor. Even in The Dark Knight it felt like Nolan was setting up Ledger's Joker to be a continuing threat.

I can run away from Wolverine. I can ram him with a truck. I can meaningfully injure him with commonly occurring weapons. Sure, he will heal eventually. But I like my odds a lot better against him than someone who will not take damage at all.

No one is going to write that scene, but an action scene with Batman has to follow the internal logic that Batman can't sponge damage. That makes for more interesting fight scenes, or at least more interesting battle scenes for writer/directors with certain sensibilities