I agree but even in SAC it often felt like the characters were more implied than actually developed or even sketched. Togusa, for example, stands out as being the only fully human guy on the team but that's only ever relevant in relation to that he does a dangerous job but has a wife and children at home, but even…

It was Dziga Vertov being name dropped in the finale that particularly worked for me.

At least Evangelion never had people engaging in conversations that sounded like they were copy and pasted from the Wikipedia pages of certain philosophers.

They aren't based off a comic book, so none.

From what I remember, she talks about being sterilised, then says she's a monster and then there's a wistful moment at the end with Hawkeye's kid. How else is it supposed to be read?

The girlfriends are written out, the relationship between Hulk and Black Widow is deemed impossible because she's a 'monster' and Wanda only becomes good once her overly and overtly physical brother is dead, and in the midst of all this is the good relationship: Linda Cardellini, married, pregnant, being a housewife…

He deflates every character arc with a joke - puny god, I did not see that coming, etc - and his finale of The Avengers is so drama-free that he ended up having an alien invasion playing second fiddle to a nuclear bomb. If he has dramatic chops, he must have stopped using them when Buffy got cancelled.

That Black Widow scene is overblown when taken on its own but when seen in relation to how he writes the other female characters in those movies, it's just another part of his weird conservative belief that sex is morally bad if it isn't for the purpose of having children.

Why is one obvious fiction fine and the other not fine? Drugs giving superpowers is no more realistic than phoney brain use percentages.

His ensemble piece Avengers movies were bad enough but a whole film, shot in his TV style, where he can let us know that girls are strong and about as funny as a Geico commercial but also have cooties sounds intolerable.

And I'm sorry that your enjoyment of science fiction is predicated on correct science rather than the quality of the accompanying fiction. You must hate everything from The Matrix to The Terminator to The Day The Earth Stood Still to Solaris.

Folks, if you only see one thing this year where Alec Baldwin plays a baby in a business suit… check out Saturday Night Live.

For those keeping score, that's 23 whole minutes longer than the perfectly justified 147 minute run time of Captain America: Civil War.

Most religions suggest that suicide rescinds your invitation to heaven.

What's the polite way of asking for follow up on an email? I just realised it's been a week since I emailed my contract back to my new employers and I haven't heard anything back from them. They've never taken this long on anything else so I'm starting to get concerned.

Speaking of Fritz Lang, for anybody who still believes that the Hayes Code was good because it had to make director's find ways to work around the limits, they should check out Man Hunt which is an impeccably directed movie about how the Nazis may or may not be bad, because taking a side would violate the production…

Though it's never happened to me, in the space of the past five or so years, whole swathes of where I live have been renovated into student accommodation, pushing people further and further out of the city centre. It's definitely lucrative but I can see it being the next big estate bubble to burst.

Looks like Batou from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: http://media.animegalleries…

I didn't like Heat when I was younger either because people genuinely talk about it as an action film even though there's only really three action scenes in it - the armoured car robbery, the famous bank heist and the shootout at the end - so I was expecting something totally different and I thought a lot of it was…

The AV Club commentariat love bright colours; just look at how mad they got at the Justice League trailer for being muted.