““[Marvel] is moving forward with its decision to produce a [Ant-Man]movie. [Paul Rudd], a man who isn’t particularly known for his super heroic physique, is playing [Scott Lang]”

Forget my mom. I get upset when people interrupt my stories even now. Except my “stories” are now called The Walking Dead and Scandal.

So long as it exists behind the CBS All Access paywall while the rest of the world gets it via Netflix, I’ll pass.

Two white men in late middle age make a show about another white man in late middle age whose the coolest and smartest person who never lived.

Claim not to endorse his nihilistic philosophy but the fact he’s undefeatable is a decisive statement unto itself.

It’s not Richard Dawkins Atheism it’s Nihilism that you’re describing.

You can’t show Pickle Rick tearing apart rats and security guards for twenty minutes and then say you didn’t glorify it because of the psychologist’s little speech at the end.

“And embedded in both parties is a constant reassurance, via the show’s various deep-cut references and in-universe in-jokes, that they are the ones who ‘get’ it. They are the chosen few who grasp the nerd-dom it celebrates in the correct way.”

It sounds like you know how stupid this type of thinking is, and then you…

As an aging Gen-X’er, I just want to say that Seth MacFarlane is not as funny as he thinks he is, and he never has been. I despise Family Guy. It’s like someone wanted to update The Simpsons, but for people with ADD who can’t follow a plot and need to be interrupted with pop culture references every 90 seconds. It’s…

The audience didn’t get it defense— always the sign of a good show.

As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a Joker...

I am as needlessly hardcore geeky as it gets, but the powers at be at Star Trek should have flat out said, “They have ridges because now we can afford to do it. We couldn’t afford it before on the 60's show. That’s it. There will be no ‘in-story’ reason given and the difference between them will never be acknowledged.”

I know I’m in the minority, but I’m not one for deaths to make it “real” or to show “how high the stakes are.” Give me superheroes saving everyone and themselves and riding off into the sunset any day. That’s why they’re superheroes.

I do think a lot of people take the cultural appropriation waaaaaay overboard. That’s really sad to me, because there is a really nuanced argument there that I think shouldn’t be overlooked. The internet does not do nuance very well though, so it’s hard to talk about.

You are correct. I love that phrasing. “He was me”, as in, we were identical at the point where we split, but he went through different experiences than I did, and so he changed.

Really? I read the book, but I don’t remember that part. That suddenly makes a lot of sense.

Colossus wasn’t bad either. I still think him spotting Deadpool on tv while eating cereals and deciding to go on a mission with one of the students is the most X-Men scene EVER.

So basically you haven’t read x-men comics for the past forever?

Excuse me, but we have no place here on the interwebs for that kind of mature response.

It... it seems like you’re genuine in admitting not only an error, but a change of mind. As the original article evidences, this is all too rare. And on the internet it’s actually confusing and a little hard to believe.