You know, RoS had plenty of problems, but until I started reading all the internet grousing about it, I never would have thought someone might include among them that there’s no detailed explanation for how an evil genius space wizard and master of planet destroying flying fortresses might resurrect himself in a…

LMAO, I just caught up to playing that game last month. My friend had said “It’s a great game, but look out, it’s the kind of game I’m embarrassed to play in front of [his wife] because of the way the female characters are dressed.” The first day I played it, my wife wakes through the living room right in the first…

Saying it’s “what consumers want” assumes as a natural law that all consumers, and arguably all potential consumers, desire normatively attractive women, instead of men or even atypically attractive women. This assumption about the world:

What is it that people would recognize? They would hear vague reports of a badass female secret agent and say “you know who else is a badass female secret agent? Black Widow. What’s up with that?” It’s not like having a couple dozen Hulks running around.

Look at the mistakes Twitter makes when it has the collective “genius” of millions of people and all of human knowledge at its disposal, and you might begin to grasp why people with 0.000001% of that might make poor choices.

I’m not saying she’s a nazi or a secret racist, but I think it is absolutely incumbent on her to publicly condemn them.

As a white person who’s consistently cared about justice for black (and all other) people for a long time, and as part of that tries to keep up with what PoC folks are saying at places like the Root, let’s say for the sake of argument that this article offends me personally (it doesn’t, but let’s say it does. For…

I guess. I’m not sure doing this process constitutes an endorsement of the subject. For instance, I wouldn’t mind seeing Hitler. But I think probably it’s because there aren’t an awful lot of historical Chinese guys with iconic photographs that most Anglo-European types would recognize. Which probably says more about…

I will never understand people’s fascination with constructing body counts for world leaders and comparing them like a score card.

LOL, well I didn’t say “holds up to 3+ viewings” good. I’d give that label to like six or eight comic book movies total, ha.

Yeah, Batman and Superman are just a liiiiiiitle less risky than Scott Free and Big Barda. Hey, I’m sure the movie would have been superior to anything Snyder farted out for the DCEU, I’m just saying you can thank the white man with poor storytelling ideas and too much money for killing New Gods by failing with all…

Except I’m pretty sure they’re spiking New Gods because they dumped all that material from the non-Snyder version of Justice League, and Wan will still be back for Aquaman 2, a sequel to a movie that was good, successful, and tonally completely unlike Snyder’s work.

Ah golly, and here I thought they’d hashtag restore the Synderverse. Shoot.

Agree about TLJ being a mixed bag in terms of narrative quality running the gamut from “pretty good” to “meh,” and for the reasons you mention (though I love the Holdo maneuver).

This one, in fact, gets it.

[Narrator’s voice] “He does not pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.”

If the DC people ran the MCU, they’d have done Defenders after Daredevil season 1, and a villain-centered Satannish one-off series before the Dr. Strange movie, and then when the projects were broadly panned for making no sense, they’d organize online fanboy mobs to call out all the SJWs who just couldn’t handle how…

The point is that he’s not her guy. That’s not the man that she had children with. That’s not the one who’s been in the sitcom world with him. That’s not the one that she said goodbye to on a hill in Wakanda

Considering these factors, it’s easy to get the feeling that life must be exceptionally rare in the galaxy.

For real. We used to get articles that kicked off all-day back and forths about what criteria establish the conventional order of II-IV-VI-VIII (or II-VI-IV-VIII according to some people I guess), or whether or not we should upset that conventional wisdom, and I’d be up in here arguing that III and V are way better…