He left because he was clearly burnt out and it showed. The fact that he is off playing farmer, doing some indie directing, and hanging out on the WWE is pretty clear that he had no guts left to stomach another election cycle.

Sadly yes but it's because of his own doing. Whoever hired him to take the Daily Show into complete irrelevance either was an idiot or really thought that this would work which is to say they Kilborned it.

Beat me to it, completely. It's actually arguably why Women's Tennis has fallen off in the US. There are no 'conventionally attractive' white blonde women playing in the top tier that can compete. I think Serena is amazing looking and has a forthright pleasantness that could carry over to atleast a hosting gig at…

She really lacks polish and given a strong script and good direction there is enough there to work with. I'm not sure she could headline a movie with 100 million dollar budget that is going to somewhat control the future of women in superhero movies….I'm just not sure she's capable of playing a role that big on her…

It's no more offensive than people who have socially-acceptable appearances and can memorize lines and deliver them with the appearance of feeling being given substantial fame. Rousey atleast can claim some skill in her endeavors.

Gravity is beyond our control as it is a natural action. Capitalism and human psychology (two points you could argue from this exchange) are not immutable. That's the whole point of this exchange. It's silly that you would even make that analogy after claiming you weren't making that exact argument.

And your refusal to explicitly accept that you made an agreement with that model is the point of this discussion.

Again, your 'observance' seems strongly aimed at a defense. In fact, your response again presumes that Capitalism is an inherent good. That nothing is wrong with it in concept, period.

Sexism is a powerful thing that we generally refuse to acknowledge is an issue. We really need to have a more open society about our pay and defend our right to collectively bargain far more than we do. Hopefully our younger generations will see why this is so wrong.

Ah yes, the capitalist defender. It's always so interesting to see how they completely reject the notion of egalitarianism on all levels to accept that Capitalism is a pretty shitty economic model and that we should ignore not just the clear market biases but social ones as well.

Video Games are traditionally a single narrator style of storytelling. It's hard to break that mold without relying on false narrators or unreliable ones. Though I find it more interesting how often game fans take aggressively alternate takes on stories. The ME3 alt take is so far removed from probability that it…

You want to know the line between pastiche & homage? This is it. In so many ways, this is it. The song is perfectly fine, it's a bit too electro for me but it's fun, something I would totally listen to in the car and enjoy.

True, in the case of Lee he was a self-aggrandizing type but he didn't necessarily go out and lie, just marginalize his help. In many cases Lee did spring a number of characters largely from himself with Kirby finalizing designs. It appears in Kane's case he had finger do much more of the work but again, unreliable…

HAH! I had this huge ideological issue of quality vs. quantity, a fear of 'fan service' overtaking the series. But the reality would seem that it's merely a practical aspect of getting rid of the time keepers and tottering off? That's never good for a show.

Saw the movie years ago, still an interesting piece of film history. Yes, it's clear the Joker looks like him in this film, it's practically HIS moniker now since it's been so often hinted and alluded to. Nice to see the comic book brigade down below fighting amongst Kane & Finger like they do with Lee & Kirby. Is…

I was just going to write the same thing. There is no logical reason to withhold new episodes since the show replaces the centerpiece every few years the salary concerns have to be minimal and the show's cultural following is huge. I have to wonder more so is this a retooling time or are they seriously worried about…

I guess growing up I had no real ill will towards Wesley, he was cute…a bit arrogant, but no harm no foul. I suspect much of the hate is ST nerds failing to be him.

Neelix was awesome, I recognize him as a full-fledged humor character which tried to replicate Guinan on TNG. It failed to some extent but he was harmless, he rarely impacted stories aggressively. I think the late season addition of children to the show was weird but Voyager felt like it was trying to draw a family…

Season 4 or 5, when Jax takes over the club was when he should have deviated from the Hamlet metaphor/story arc model. There was a real chance to have a truly different and interesting show that would have allowed them to explore whole different views and approaches, perhaps play out a melodrama on capitalism and…

Hah! I just wrote about her above…She felt like she was supposed to be the childhood/teenage surrogate amongst a cast that was predominantly older (a kind of less shitty Wesley Crusher) and she just ended up being painfully irritating.