I can't say I understand why it's so popular myself, I would say the first episode isn't terribly indicative of the rest of the show. While I wouldn't say the characters become terribly vibrant, the pacing does improve, and the role of the villain is different than the first episode suggests.

I always thought he was just supposed to be powerless in his life.

EDIT: Yeah, never mind.

Yeah, while I'm glad Toonami is back, it's a very safe line-up of confirmed hits and probably successes. Streaming is really a better choice, most of the day.

I love to disagree, so I'd argue that b-movie has actually come to mean crappy movie, or at least one which apes the traditions of crappy movies. They do tend to be exclusively genre films (I don't think Syfy shows romance movies if it can get away with it), but at least when I've encountered the label it's had more…

I think the expectations are a bit different, really.

Idris Elba opens his eyes to find himself in the middle of a field, surrounded by all his colleagues. They all applaud and congratulate him. This goes on for three minutes.

The movie is utterly lacking any of Moore's critical angle, to the point where it commits some of the very plot and characterization choices which Moore calls out as problematic. Worse, it doesn't replace this with anything, even fidelity to the original stories. It doesn't even capitalize on the potential of just…

@avclub-808e22af6c33eea22608f30cef458844:disqus , wouldn't that (theoretically) work in the favor of a League show, since the team is relatively low-powered with a tendency to try and deflate the "legendary" qualities of the characters?

I wish I had an account dedicated to tossing out Phillip Roth quotes, though admittedly it would be hard to choose one paragraph here.

Actually that would be interesting. I'm actually a bit embarrassed at my initial reaction which was along the lines of "well yeah, but so have most people in history, and perhaps we need to develop a nuanced response to people's awful personal faults". I mean, I stand by the general sentiment, but that's no grounds to…

Your retelling of world history must be fascinating.

Girls Blood just makes me want an editor and a wash basin.

Wait, there's another way to sing it?

The presence of an authority figure changes the context of the hijinks into rebellious acts, enhancing the degree to which they amuse the audience, while their incompetence provides another source of amusement and pacifies any sense of threat punishment might bring? The use of a nanny allows for the cast to rebel…

What, like "Memphis Beat"?

Well, this will be a fun comment section.

This is the same reason I can't get behind e-mail replacing physical letters.

The internet is an early iteration of the Total Perspective Vortex, isn't it?

I'd like this argument if the cultural understanding of Dracula was really built around Bram Stoker's novel, but these days he's such an abstract figure that "vampire with a plot that's imperiled by his love for a woman who looks like his dead wife" probably isn't a radical revision for most.