Yes, but Stacy is the one who pushes him towards riskier work, which might involve killing people. There are several scenes throughout the season that imply that she's deliberately pushing him to bring more money home. And probably knowingly too, since how else could a parking lot attendant be suddenly pulling down…

So at the beginning of this month I was on vacation for two weeks, which meant that I had a lot of TV banked up when I returned. So much so that two and a half weeks later (including several holidays) I'm still not caught up, which is probably an indication that I watch too much TV. Yesterday I caught up on the last…

FINALLY someone comes out and says that Claire is an empty shirt who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near high office. Like, literally her only response to "I have delivered four years of economic growth, balanced budgets, and improved public services" is "but what did you do about a kidnapping that occurred ten years…

Because they didn't give it to themselves. They don't exist. Some writer chose this name because it sounded dramatic - and because the Inhumans in the comics started out as villains, so who cares if their name is derogatory. But in the story that AoS is telling, in which Inhumans are ordinary people who are being…

Spider-Man is an established character (albeit one that has been so over-exposed that Marvel is having a serious uphill battle trying to sell the idea of yet another reboot, hence their choice to shoehorn the character into Civil War). But Thor? Don't you remember what a huge gamble that movie was, with a character…

Well, I have to say, I find that pretty contrived. I don't really believe that anyone who is already coping with the shock of learning that they are an alien will be fine with being called a name that has such obvious negative connotations. It might work if there was an actual Inhuman community out in the open, but…

I don't know. I feel like introducing the Inhumans has fundamentally unbalanced the show, as far as its politics goes, because it introduces a group who are inherently Other - right down to their name - and whose basic rights will always be in the human characters' gift. You're right that the show started out as a…

Self-applied by who, though? Is there an Inhuman society who have named themselves? Because what I read is that Daisy was the one who coined the term, and I really don't think she has the right to apply it to anyone else.

it's willing to release inhumans on their own recognisance

The problem with this is that spy-fi requires very specific and well-defined stakes, otherwise it collapses into a morass of vagueness and nondescript warehouse sets. Alias worked in its first few seasons because it had the very specific goal of defeating SD-6 and getting revenge for Sydney's dead fiance. It…

AoS is currently circling 1.0 ratings, going into the end of its third season. In general, ratings only go down, not up. It's not impossible that the show will get a fifth season - nobody's cancelling anything these days, though a lot will depend on how well the spin-off does - but the odds of it still being on the…

Marvel seems to have no problem basing a movie around a complete unknown when it comes to Spider-Man. Hell, Hemsworth was an unknown quantity when he was cast as Thor. If there's a problem with casting an unknown as Kamala Khan, I suspect it has more to do with the "female, Pakistani" part of the equation.

Are they confused or disgusted? I don't watch AoS anymore, but every time I hear about it I can't get past the concept that everyone in the show is OK with calling people "inhuman". I mean, there's just no way to slice that that isn't racist and offensive.

I don't care how old she is; I'd be shocked if, when and if the movie happens, either she or anyone else from AoS is even mentioned in it.

But that's where the other Justice League movies come in. No one is itching to go see another Zack Snyder-directed team-up movie right now. But enough people are interested in Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman that those movies will probably do reasonably well. And if they don't suck, then that's what will get people…

His agent can't be that bad if he's still working after twenty years of being in nothing but flops of various sizes. Being a handsome white man surely doesn't give you that much career longevity.

One thing that both Daredevil (the Netflix series, obviously) and Jessica Jones got right was that they started with their characters already possessed of their powers and having come to some accommodation with them. Both series eventually circle back to revealing their protagonists' origin story, but not until…

Is that even a possibility? Terrible as BvS is, it made a huge amount of money, including overseas. And the parts of the film that work best are the ones setting up stuff like Wonder Woman or Aquaman - hell, there are even some Batman bits that make you think he might be OK in a standalone, if someone else were…

Sorry, I don't agree. If you don't want to make a Shakespearean comedy, then don't make one. But taking a text that's meant to be funny (and which is in fact incredibly funny even if you cut out all the jokes that don't make sense to modern audiences) and making it not-funny is not an accomplishment in my books,…

Yeah, that's definitely my version to beat. I think Whedon was working on the assumption that most people only know the Branagh movie version, so that his more naturalistic approach would seem fresh and new. I think that even if that were the case for me, I would have been underwhelmed by the movie, but compared to…