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Hey, I think know you.

24's frustrating lack of continuity and weak character development (despite usually having strong actors) is probably the main reason it doesn't receive the credit it deserves for creating a new standard for modern television.

The fourth season had some good elements but outside of the Araz family, the villains were boring and aside from Chloe, the CTU cast was forgettable. Also, this is the season where 24 really became torture-loving right-wing propaganda which exactly as Surnow wanted it to be and why Rush Limbaugh, among others, was

I was looking forward to the first time he met Hillary Clinton - in 1978, in Hell where they realized that both of them were the Anti-Christ. Awkward!

Her Lois is the only live-action one that comes close to the post-crisis interpretation. Amy Adams might as well but we don't know much of her backstory.

Everyone forgets John Shea's amazing Lex on Lois & Clark. He's up there with Rosenbaum to me.

Or Barack Obama.

Yeah, Bernie was forced to ignore Obama's success and go back to the old playbook of relying on white dudes and young kids even though the former is mostly for the Republicans now and the latter are unreliable as evidenced by Bernie's loss.

I'm cool with white supremacists being demonized, tbh.

By your answer it's clear you don't know what "toxic masculinity" is. Hint: It's not masculinity itself.

I think a more interesting angle is how Cursed Child was written 20 years after the first book, is set in the very near future and somehow feels more regressive than the series. It's all about fathers (and father figures) and sons. There is literally no other part for women but love interest or mother or villain.

I remember one HP meta piece by a gay fan that noted that if gay men were writing the slash fic, Hagrid would be the most popular character.

Did you think Harry and Ron came off as gay? Ron was willing to be killed twice and he was also the "thing Harry would miss the most" as of the fourth book?

They had to do something with female characters because they certainly weren't going to get a plot of their own!
Also, I'm waiting for the inevitable backlash when fandom gets on shippers for ignoring the canon black female love interest so two white straight-acting cis dudes can smooch. Tumblr has let me down so far

If they're light-skinned.

Eh, white is also used in place of pale/colorlessness as someone going "white with fear".

Hermione in the play is practically a tertiary character and her black daughter isn't even in the new trio. The only thing that makes me think it wasn't racist was that Ginny was similarly shafted and the only female who does anything beyond support [insert male character] is the villain.

And yet the least awful one in the play. Only the Draco stuff was passable and even he was too nice. And had a fridged wife who frankly sounded more interesting than him.

Wow, you mentioned the misogyny in passing once. Gotta eat your vagtables, right?

Except it's pretty obvious in DH that he and Grindlewald aren't just bros.