He really did look so much like Colossus, especially in the sleeveless get-up, that it was distracting. I didn't realize it was Girder until I looked up his name. I hope he comes back in a future episode rustier, as I think the rusty, riveted look he has in the comics is pretty cool and unique.

I actually thought he was serviceable, especially as a comic (or anti-comic?) foil for the protagonists. His reaction to Quill's dancing is critical to that bit landing as well as it does, for example. But he's also extremely thin as a character and his motivations are vague, since all we know nothing about the Kree…

Point of order: Guardians of the Galaxy IS a great movie that also has a nonsense plot and a terrible villain.

Would you say you just loffed and loffed?

She does have that line in The Avengers where Banner comments about the kid who leads him into her trap.

The example you pick is the guy whose backstory literally requires him to perpetually be from the '40s? I'd agree that there's story reasons for Steve Rogers to look like he does. There are a handful of other examples of characters that work best as white. The vast majority of these characters, however, are white and…

The Cenac one is really, really good.

They have Gorilla-Man, and he's great: http://theculturalgutter.co…

C'mon.

Wheel of Fortune coming on after Jeopardy! is against God. You can start with the dumb people and puzzles as a lame warm-up act, but you can't expect it to follow actual smart people.

I hope it gets boffo B.O.!

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Stalkers in general —are investigated by—> Beth —is stalked by—> Beth's stalker —is sleeping with—> Beth's friend —is stalked by—> Beth's friend's stalker

And that's being exceedingly generous to round it up to two years; that thing came out in June 2013. Potential future Forgotbuster if we didn't have at least one sequel coming.

He also pointed out the debris going the wrong direction and the space stations being in the wrong places and several other nitpicky inside-baseball things.

So, a second season of Studio 60?

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I get what they mean. The old marketing materials for Empire and Jedi don't have giant Roman numerals plastered all over them (though some of the video releases do). The only time you'd see "EPISODE V" or "EPISODE VI" would be the text crawls. Whereas the prequels had the numbers way bigger than the subtitles on every…

Spooky scary!

I think (?) at the heart of June's argument is that if you personify a monkey like "oh look how cute she made all those choices as an actor," you also end up personifying it in a "if she attacks you, she made a malicious choice to do so" kind of way.