I definitely don't see any reason to bother if you already didn't care for S1 (Stick comes back, by the way, and the episode featuring him is just as tedious). Especially since it's a season that isn't trying very hard to build on what came before, but rather just to repeat the previous season's highlights (so you…

This weekend I finally got around to watching S2 of Daredevil, and nine episodes in it is… not good. There are some welcome structural improvements - going into the end of the season, it actually feels as if the action is ramping up, as opposed to how S1 basically forgot to tell a story in its last five episodes. …

The Handmaiden and Love and Friendship are two films that I am dying to see, and which almost certainly won't make it over here. Woe.

It's not going to happen because the estate are a bunch of idiots, but I'd love to see someone adapt the Peter Wimsey novels into a series of miniseries. My dream casting is Tom Hiddleston as Peter, and Eva Green as Harriet (no thoughts on Bunter or Charles Parker), but I think it could be a hit with just about…

The problem with using Scarlet Witch as a representative for this attitude towards superpowered people is that, well, very recently she was a terrorist and a murderer who, after her partnership with Hydra, a group who consider the Nazis too tame, fell through, somehow managed to find an even less savory ally to attach…

Definitely agreed on your last point. There are things I'm willing to handwave, but making them the central issue of your story stretches that willingness past the breaking point.

And S1 of AoS was pretty explicit about SHIELD functioning as a world police. My sense is that even the post-WS SHIELD basically sees the world as its oyster and has no qualms about operating anywhere in the world - for example, Skye's mother governs a secret Inhuman city somewhere in Asia (I think, I'm going by what…

Avengers and Winter Soldier made it seem like SHIELD was operating under the authority of the World Security Council, which was something separate from the UN but still had the authority to order a nuclear strike on New York (which, now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure the UN doesn't). But at the same time, both…

That's an annoying trope, but the reverse is sometimes just as bad. Remember Huck's Homelessness Wig on Scandal?

I saw a preview clip for this episode that tried to make some hay out of the question of which #Team Coulson would fall on. Like there's any question which side a self-satisfied control freak, with a huge crush on Captain America, who is himself a vigilante, would pick in this debate.

To be honest, if the Sokovia Accords are meant to be restricted to the Avengers, that makes them ridiculously toothless. What's to stop any wannabe superpowered vigilante from simply not associating themselves with the Avengers, and going about their business unbothered?

Legends is not a very good show, but I think it realizes this in a way that The Flash doesn't. I've started thinking of The Flash as smug. It's a show that's so caught up in its idea of itself as the "fun" DCTVU that it hasn't even noticed how dark and immoral it's gotten this season. It still think I should be…

It's the only one of the MCU introduction movies that has something like its own style (Thor tries, but is clearly more comfortable in its Earth-set scenes, where it's a fairly bog-standard action-comedy). I think it's probably the movie where the Marvel executives realizes that they should be aiming for different…

To be honest, if the show needs to cut costs, I'd be perfectly happy with losing Winn entirely. I don't see that he adds anything to the show that Jimmy couldn't do just as well.

I would argue that Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman did it first (and I've been trying for several months to get more people to rediscover that show, especially as fatigue over dark Superman has set in). Admittedly, it goes completely to pot after the second season, but the first gets so much right about…

If the CW is worried about having too many superhero shows, I would trade The Flash for Supergirl in a heartbeat. But I have to say, Supergirl without Cat Grant simply isn't worth the price of admission. The relationship between Cat and Kara has been the heart of the show, and one of the ways in which it transcends…

For me, it's because the Bruce in TIH and the Bruce introduced in Avengers are two such obviously different characters. It goes beyond the actor change (though obviously Ruffalo plays the character very differently from Norton). Norton's Hulk is a pro-active do-gooder. Ruffalo's is a middle-aged scientist who is…

Iron Man 2 is bad, but my vote would have to go to The Incredible Hulk. Not because it's bad - certainly not as bad as IM2 or Thor: The Dark World - but because it's not an MCU movie. All the things that made the first Iron Man work are absent here, and instead you get a totally forgettable, by the numbers superhero…

I would argue that most of Iron Man 3's problems are, as you say, the fact that the MCU as a whole can't let its ending or any of the growth that Tony achieves throughout it stand. Winter Soldier has largely the same problem - taken on its own, it's a bold, subversive statement in favor of dismantling the security…

I'm honestly amazed at the number of people in this thread who are treating Coulson as an essential part of the show. Of all the many mistakes the first season made, centering its story around this boring, underdeveloped character, and the charisma-free actor playing him, felt like the most crucial one.