Joel Wyman said on Twitter that it doesn't matter if the first "seven or so" episodes are aired out of order, but after that it's important. That leads me to believe he's doing exactly with AH what he did with Fringe: pleasant, safe groundwork leading to all-out batshit-crazy.

Yeah, I mostly agree (I think they could have AT LEAST had a line in the China ep where maybe May asks her if she speaks Chinese too or something I don't know just some indication that Skye has probably been wondering for years what her own ethnicity is). My friend, who is half-Chinese and generally read as white,…

Oh, thanks for pointing that out! I follow Clark Gregg on twitter and I feel like he retweeted someone who said "first show to do this thing!!" and I just believed it. I have an Asian American friend who, while she agrees the show is kind of terrible, is so so so so happy to see her ethnicity represented on…

Actually, yeah, a diverse cast can be a hint that a show is gonna be good. Let us NOT talk over the fact that this is the first show I think ever to have two Asian American women in the main cast … but when I see a new show with all white people, I do tend to get less interested. Shows that cast all white or…

I'm wondering if they're doing that to add a bit of misdirection on Valerie Stahl. There were too many "is-she-a-robot??" moments in the pilot that it seems obvious she's a robot, but they haven't come out and said it (unless I totally missed it?? Did I totally miss it?). I thought I read in interviews that Minka…

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Wow, same. Had no clue they were making that-book-I-once-read-and-didn't-particularly-care-for into a movie… can't say this review is making me want to see this. Ronan's been making some odd career choices.

Yeah, holy shit, Michael Ealy is so hot. There's already some fic on AO3 (and surprisingly, at least one was good). Once this was pointed out to me by my friends who are POCs, it's pretty hard to un-see. I wish I could track down that list of ships on AO3, because it's pretty damning, but I tagged it improperly and…

Not that anyone particularly cares, but my friends and I have been thinking about this show being a litmus test for racism in slash shipping. It's PRIME for slash shipping, but one of the leads is black. If you look at a list of most popular slash ships, they are almost exclusively two white men—the only exception I…

I think she's super beautiful, but Elle Fanning probably could have pulled it off. Given the right makeup and styling she could def do that "othered" look.

SCREW Y'ALL. CATS IN BOXES.

…Sorry but wow I haven't had as much fun watching Adventure Time since, hm, maybe Shh!. I thought Jake's subplot was pretty lacking, but to me this was otherwise a solid episode. This review reminds me of that video going around of the guy raging over a My Little Pony activity book because…

@avclub-8513653fa414d2ef44d8aa46af896e42:disqus I 100% agree with you, but I did want to quietly point out the actress who plays Skye is Chinese-American. Whether they establish that in the show or whitewash her is of course still uncertain.

Yeah, I mean, my life definitely improved when I moved away from home for the first time and no longer had a TV. I watch all television on my laptop, which means I have to actively seek it out, which means I'm only watching stuff I really want to watch. Sell your TV and you will start to love TV as much as you love…

@Dr. Jacoby Agreed… It should have been done how it was done in Torchwood. I honestly wouldn't have minded them completely ripping that off.

I am almost positive I heard them refer to one of the robots as "Snow," too.

@avclub-1e850f6bef0bc36ca1f64e95ff1cbd2e:disqus Ming-Na is superb. I remember being on Twitter last year sometime and seeing Blastr tweet, "Stargate Universe star cast in Whedon's SHIELD show" and loading the page chanting "Ming-Na, Ming-Na" with my fingers crossed. I got to know her when she was on ER for several…

Oh lord, the "TV isn't as high art as books" thing. C'mon, man. All forms of media have crap, and all forms of media have great art. There are thousands of books published every year. Do you really think all of them are great? To take an easy example, are the 50 Shades of Gray books really finer art than Real…

@avclub-0108709d613bc1d1db7e5c2b5f02c657:disqus  The showrunners are Jed Whedon and Mo Tancharoen, both of whom were staff writers on Dollhouse, which gets a bad rap but in my opinion had some of the best writing (and hands down the best ensemble cast, aside from Fringe's small unit) on TV the last three or four…

He is headed back to TV, on Showtime's The Affair. I'm less than enthused about the premise (love triangles = literally my mortal enemy), but it's frickin got Joshua Jackson, Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, and Maura Tierney, and Jackson plays a cowboy so. I'm. Trapped.

@avclub-6947b1f0acc2fecdeeec83566e1fad4c:disqus  Maybe, but also consider that once people reach adulthood, their biomass pretty much stays the same forever, even if they age. So Bubblegum's current biomass might not equal 18 so much as "adult", while her biomass in "Too Young," made her smaller than adult, thus,…