Moonlight. It's not even a contest really - it's just so much better than any of the other nominated films I've seen. It honestly depresses me that it's probably going to lose to La La Land, which is pleasant but will almost certainly be forgotten five minutes after the ceremony (and is, as previously discussed, the…

No, and she's barely even worn the outfit in S2. The whole white canary concept seems to have been abandoned in favor of her transitioning into the role of captain, which has been working very well.

I was really hoping that Bonnie would turn out to be the killer, because that felt like the only way to tie into the fact that she killed Rebecca. With Wes dead, there's no one left to care about that, so one of the most important character beats on the show (not to mention an important demonstration of how…

On any other show, I wouldn't be so sure, but on this one? It's practically guaranteed.

Rita was basically Skyler White before enough critics got up to say that the way the fandom was reacting to characters like her was fucked up. And, of course, she was on a show whose writers had a much less sophisticated grasp on their main character and his profound flaws. So you end up with situation where Rita is…

I'd like to believe that stories about ICE agents arresting battered women in court on a tip from their abuser, or removing a cancer patient from a hospital even though she's seriously ill, will put a damper on their recruitment efforts. On the other hand, that probably just means the pool of people willing to do the…

We were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I don't really see the downside to ending Arrow after next season (or even this one, if they give the writers enough of a heads up). They can still keep the characters around and have them guest on the other shows, but the CW/DC lineup is strong enough and big enough…

I think the fact that The Matrix's terms have been embraced by online misogynists and neo-Nazis (despite the film having been directed by two trans women) does a lot more to tarnish its reputation than the sequels.

Just the other day I saw someone claiming that in the original script, the leads were a gay couple. No idea what the source on this was, and it's kind of hard to believe that anyone in the late 90s thought a major animation studio would make a kids' film with a gay couple as the leads (since it's 2017 and it still…

I'd be surprised if Jane isn't contributing to the household expenses even though she lives with Alba, and maybe even paying rent. Alba can't be that flush, after all, and she may need to save for her retirement (I don't know how this works, but Alba only got her green card a few years ago, so would she even be…

The cemetery desecrated in St. Louis, Chesed Shel Emeth, is where my mother's grandparents are buried, and probably many other relatives from their generation. As if to further explicate the cyclical nature of these things, these were all people who came over to the US as, if not exactly refugees, then certainly in…

Mahershala Ali is a fine actor, and I'm happy that he's getting all this attention after 20 years of doing mostly genre work. But if I was going to give a nomination to any of the men from Moonlight, it would be either Trevante Rhodes or Andre Holland. Ali, meanwhile, felt like a more important presence in Hidden…

Minus the classic Inhumans bit, that's what Agents of SHIELD has been doing, and it hasn't exactly set the world on fire.

He's a good looking white guy. He'll have no trouble finding leading man roles. Hell, if GoT were any other show, the writers would have been mulling a redemption story for Ramsay.

I was talking about the audience who are not comics readers. Though it's possible that the viewership of AoS leans pretty heavily towards comics fans.

The IMAX screening is already suggestive - they wouldn't be releasing it in that format if the visuals couldn't support it. Which kind of confirms my feeling that this is meant to be a one-and-done series.

There's a good chance that Daisy Johnson from Agents of SHIELD is currently the most famous Inhuman, as far as the general public is concerned, and that show is watched by hardly anyone. Plus, I don't even know if she was an Inhuman in the comics or if AoS retconned that.

Maybe not impossible - she hasn't been working much, and this sounds like a limited commitment series (maybe even one-and-done).

I have to say, the notion that Fury would be welcome in Wakanda seems pretty questionable to me. Wakanda is an African nation that has somehow managed to protect itself from colonialism and other forms of Western exploitation by closing its borders and carefully hoarding its natural resources. Fury was the head of…

What's particularly frustrating is that the ending of Civil War sets up a Black Widow movie so perfectly. Instead she's probably just going to disappear until Infinity War.