If anything, the casting controversy is a god-damn lifeline for fans of this show, as they can simply invoke it to claim bad faith on the part of anyone who criticises the show rather than treating these as honest complaints.

Just because the whitewashing predates the show doesn't mean its immune from criticism. Why did Danny Rand have to be white? Because Marvel wanted to jump on the martial arts bandwagon, but obviously wanted a bankable character. Not only is that a commercial rather than an artistic motive, it's hardly a noble one -…

Surely having to prepare anything at all negates the purpose of a television adaptation?

It's all fine and well saying "most of them have not been white", but at the end of the day, it's the white incumbent who is the protagonist. Implied historical offscreen diversity doesn't offset a lack of onscreen diversity.

Seemingly unlike yourself, I don't get personally incensed about other people's opinions of films on the internet.

That'll teach us for enjoying popular, critically-acclaimed fare.

So I looked it up and you're right.

Like most Lloyd-Webber, Phantom is a huge ol' slice of cheese, but you can't say that it's score isn't great. It's pure musical bombast.

Why does this sentence read like Lionel Hutz's business card?

So they offended the rubles, too?

If anything, the Scots' rhotic R naturally lends itself to French.

So because the filmmakers did not literally use black magic to conjure up a carbon-copy of the animation into live action, the criticism is false?

I can't stand Daredevil because I find Charlie Cox's whispery, affectless American accent so grating. He doesn't so much end sentences as simply run out of breath.

John Carter so aggressively ping-ponged between being off-puttingly weird and mind-numbingly bland, it could probably be marketed as a defibrillator.

Really sticking it to these decades-old films, aren't you?

The gargoyles are there to leaven out all the religious persecution and gothic horror.

*Elton John furiously tweets Tina Fey's home address*

Maybe this is from the comics, but Ludendorff is such a ridiculously recognisable name to give to a German general. It would be as if the antagonist was a French officer called Marshal Napoleon, or an Italian politician called Mussolini.

Personally, mine is the inevitable "Women can't anchor blockbusters" if this tanks in the wake of Batman vs. Superman and Suicide Squad, as if the poisonous atmosphere and drained goodwill left by those films had no impact on its box office.

There is one part of it which is just residual resentment about female protagonists (see also the ridiculous complaint that since both The Force Awakens and Rogue One have leading ladies, this is clear evidence of Kathleen Kennedy pushing a covert feminist agenda, despite all further Star Wars Stories having male…