There's not wanting to do something — like your taxes, or your homework, or whatever — and there's actively refusing to do it and, when the authority in question insists, beginning to shoot people.

Despite the many, many ways in which Dan was a flawed human being he really was one of the best dads on TV and I have a hard time thinking of another fictional dad I'd prefer as my dad (whereas there are plenty of TV moms I'd rather have than Roseanne).

Despite the many, many ways in which Dan was a flawed human being he really was one of the best dads on TV and I have a hard time thinking of another fictional dad I'd prefer as my dad (whereas there are plenty of TV moms I'd rather have than Roseanne).

It was meta in multiple senses — fictional Roseanne writes the ridiculously inane wacky cartoon adventures of the final season because she can't bear to deal with the heartbreak of her real life, mirroring the real-life Roseanne Barr apparently being totally sick and tired of doing the show and decided to stop pouring…

It was meta in multiple senses — fictional Roseanne writes the ridiculously inane wacky cartoon adventures of the final season because she can't bear to deal with the heartbreak of her real life, mirroring the real-life Roseanne Barr apparently being totally sick and tired of doing the show and decided to stop pouring…

The reveal that Roseanne herself made up the idea that he had abandoned her to shack up with his mistress in LA — because even that ultimate heartbreaking betrayal  was easier to accept than the simple fact that he"abandoned" her by dying — makes me tear up every time.

The reveal that Roseanne herself made up the idea that he had abandoned her to shack up with his mistress in LA — because even that ultimate heartbreaking betrayal  was easier to accept than the simple fact that he"abandoned" her by dying — makes me tear up every time.

The fact that you actually can draw a really strong parallel between the Cuckoo's plight and Wanda's situation is why having the Cuckoo — up till that point the "villain" of the piece and arguably a misunderstood one — possess Wanda — arguably up to that point the most sympathetic supporting character — would be…

The fact that you actually can draw a really strong parallel between the Cuckoo's plight and Wanda's situation is why having the Cuckoo — up till that point the "villain" of the piece and arguably a misunderstood one — possess Wanda — arguably up to that point the most sympathetic supporting character — would be…

My problem is and continues to be that by making the forces arrayed against Wanda literally supernatural, it makes the suckiness of being trans a fundamental fact of life and something that it's impossible to change.

My problem is and continues to be that by making the forces arrayed against Wanda literally supernatural, it makes the suckiness of being trans a fundamental fact of life and something that it's impossible to change.

What I think is really weird and interesting about that scene is that it feels kind of like the weirdness we feel about Blade Runner's empathy tests — it's giving significance to passing or failing a test that almost all of us would fail in real life, and forcing us to think about that fact. (In Philip K. Dick's…

What I think is really weird and interesting about that scene is that it feels kind of like the weirdness we feel about Blade Runner's empathy tests — it's giving significance to passing or failing a test that almost all of us would fail in real life, and forcing us to think about that fact. (In Philip K. Dick's…

It's also just not IMO a very good story, because it's relegated to subplot status in a story where the A-plot isn't that interesting, as @Scrawler2:disqus points out. (I mean the real issue here is that ostensibly this is Barbie's story or possibly the story of how Dream and Thessaly get together and NOBODY actually…

It's also just not IMO a very good story, because it's relegated to subplot status in a story where the A-plot isn't that interesting, as @Scrawler2:disqus points out. (I mean the real issue here is that ostensibly this is Barbie's story or possibly the story of how Dream and Thessaly get together and NOBODY actually…

@avclub-884c4beddd8c98bb3b016bdfcc1bcdf8:disqus People are mad at you because this is actually a real issue that a lot of real people deal with. Wanda isn't just an imaginary thought experiment Neil Gaiman made up ("Wouldn't it be wacky if a dude thought he was a chick?"), she represents a real community of real…

@avclub-884c4beddd8c98bb3b016bdfcc1bcdf8:disqus People are mad at you because this is actually a real issue that a lot of real people deal with. Wanda isn't just an imaginary thought experiment Neil Gaiman made up ("Wouldn't it be wacky if a dude thought he was a chick?"), she represents a real community of real…

In all seriousness the "tragic homosexual" is kind of a bugbear in LGBT literature, and it's a problem even more so for transpeople (who are in the place now I guess you could say gay people were in the 1970s).

In all seriousness the "tragic homosexual" is kind of a bugbear in LGBT literature, and it's a problem even more so for transpeople (who are in the place now I guess you could say gay people were in the 1970s).

@avclub-884c4beddd8c98bb3b016bdfcc1bcdf8:disqus , you're getting blowback that you wouldn't be getting if you said that Wanda was "physically male" or "genetically male" or "has male genitalia" as opposed to saying that "she is a man".