I think it'd be more fun if it turned out that Stella was a nagging shrew- but also the criminal mastermind in charge of a larger and more pervasive smuggling operation and that's just her management style.

Personally I prefer Puppo because they're just such little schnoogins before my horrible robot arms extract their spinal fluid.

I just want to rub his shiny face and say "Oh, sweet summer child…."

I'd be a bit cautious- I think this is their second or third punt at establishing themselves with a must-see drama, although the Bryan Fuller pedigree is a good reason to be excited.

This show is the main reason I can think of. It's the story of a man who gets out of jail only to find that the wife and job he thought were waiting for him are both gone. He's recruited as a bodyguard and gofer by an aspect of the Norse god Odin in preparation for a final battle between the old Gods and the new Gods…

Trump is more like Larry the Surrogate for either Bannon or Kushner, depending on the issue.

"Whedonesque" is a very gentle way of describing Mass Effect's style of writing characters post-Dragon Age, especially considering David Gaider's descriptions of the writing method used.

Badly! It could always work very badly.

Well, the White House Correspondents' Dinner is bad and a lot of DC-based reporters say that the WHCA is a grift… Did he maybe do something good by accident? Is he that dumb? Yeah, he's probably that dumb.

I'm sorry, that was completely inappropriate and wrong of me to post. I've been having a bit of a hard time keeping things together lately.

Oh, I'm sorry for misgendering them, although not for the broader scoff of someone insulated by entertainment industry cash personalizing it like that.

Yeah basically

Well, knowing this show as well as we can, then.

It's been hinted she might turn up by the end of the season, but knowing this show, she'll just be your common or garden wiccan.

Intersectionality which ignores class isn't intersectionality, money has a profound power to insulate.

Uh no, I mean, she doesn't talk about any practical action at all, she gives a couple of donation links, which would be great, except those agencies rely on energized local action.

No, but let's say, hypothetically, that a self-aggrandizing monologue which minimizes any concept of direct action and instead exists to encapsulate political catharsis in the experience of a privileged white woman is, well… a t best we can call it a false catharsis for lazy people.

Uh, the part where she spends time to talk about how she helped a trans person without humanizing that person. Seriously it's a classic protest trope. When did you first get into this stuff?

Then maybe she should have talked about actual, practical action instead of just listing charities after talking about how brave she was to deal with it and how great she was to help someone deal with it.

I actually attend protests instead of tweeting lengthy, self-dramatizing (and apparently, self-congratulatory) monologues, for one.