Hey now, I remember the time she played a literal emotionless robot in The Outer Limits. I remember that she must have been okay at it, in that I don't remember anything else about that episode. So there's that.

Because Aisha Tyler is intimidating and scary because it feels like she could actually beat you at the games you like, challenge your nerd supremacy and sleep with someone who's as attractive as she herself is rather than slumming it with you to gain your nerd approval.

Because Aisha Tyler is intimidating and scary because it feels like she could actually beat you at the games you like, challenge your nerd supremacy and sleep with someone who's as attractive as she herself is rather than slumming it with you to gain your nerd approval.

It's more relevant if you're, say, a genuine geek girl with an interest in a career as a performer who feels like she is being constantly pressured to be Olivia Munn, and has to choose between giving up on her cherished dream of achieving fame and fortune in a field she loves or retaining the dignity of never, at any…

It's more relevant if you're, say, a genuine geek girl with an interest in a career as a performer who feels like she is being constantly pressured to be Olivia Munn, and has to choose between giving up on her cherished dream of achieving fame and fortune in a field she loves or retaining the dignity of never, at any…

She got a job on The Daily Show despite being a lot less funny and a lot less smart than dozens of female comedians who would've given their left breast to have an opportunity to be on The Daily Show.

She got a job on The Daily Show despite being a lot less funny and a lot less smart than dozens of female comedians who would've given their left breast to have an opportunity to be on The Daily Show.

It's not a solution so much as the fact that the "solution" the cartoon used — drawing the characters as non-white — doesn't work in live-action movies. (Well, the equivalent solution is using makeup and prosthetics to fake it, and that is nowadays very much Not Okay.)

It's not a solution so much as the fact that the "solution" the cartoon used — drawing the characters as non-white — doesn't work in live-action movies. (Well, the equivalent solution is using makeup and prosthetics to fake it, and that is nowadays very much Not Okay.)

(Okay, Iroh is a secondary main character, but he was non-white in the movie too, assuming we count Iranians as not white.)

(Okay, Iroh is a secondary main character, but he was non-white in the movie too, assuming we count Iranians as not white.)

That was actually the hilarious part — the movie ended up being just like the cartoon in that among the main cast Zuko was the only one played by a non-white actor.

That was actually the hilarious part — the movie ended up being just like the cartoon in that among the main cast Zuko was the only one played by a non-white actor.

…Enh. Her whole shtick was motivated by Cold War panic. She wrote a play once where someone gets murdered as a "traitor to his country" because he seeks to expose a horrible WMD the US military is planning to use against the USSR to the world — and the murderer is portrayed as the *good guy*.

…Enh. Her whole shtick was motivated by Cold War panic. She wrote a play once where someone gets murdered as a "traitor to his country" because he seeks to expose a horrible WMD the US military is planning to use against the USSR to the world — and the murderer is portrayed as the *good guy*.

Re: my other comment, sure, but AFAICT the main characters were all played by white VAs, even though people made a really big deal out of how there were "no white people" in the Avatar world.

Re: my other comment, sure, but AFAICT the main characters were all played by white VAs, even though people made a really big deal out of how there were "no white people" in the Avatar world.

It always bugged the hell out of me that there was all this tremendous outrage over the M. Night Shyamalan Last Airbender movie having an (almost) all-white cast when the original TV show ALSO HAD AN ALL-WHITE CAST.

It always bugged the hell out of me that there was all this tremendous outrage over the M. Night Shyamalan Last Airbender movie having an (almost) all-white cast when the original TV show ALSO HAD AN ALL-WHITE CAST.

Vince is a morally irredeemable character but as people keep pointing out the whole point of that scene is how badly fucked Vince and Jules are because he blew a man's head off in broad daylight in the seat of a moving car. There is no way Vince is stupid enough to intentionally do that, and if you read him as some…