He has something to prove, but on top of that, he’s been told for his entire life that he’s better than everyone else. He thinks he deserves to be Captain America and he is not going to be very patient with Sam threatening that by, you know, being Steve’s choice and existing and disapproving.

I thought immediately ‘oh he’s a hydra agent’ then I realized that the whole going back to his HS for an interview and his overly decorated career (3 MoH...which hasn’t happened ever and historically even getting 2 has been mostly in times of war) was to set him up as ‘what if Captain America was from white middle…

I have a few issues but I still love the show. The first is that, if you take half the world’s population, assuming that geopolitical lines are ignored, you’re still statistically going to end up with roughly half of the population in larger countries (over-100M). So, while the US may have dropped below 150-170M it’s…

Hah! <3

>.> Are you being satirical and I just don’t get it? :(

I mean, until Markle ended up with a prince she was on a cable drama and had a so-so career.  I’m not saying she wouldn’t have given his vile racist ass the time but she was definitely in a position to be used by him and was in the realm to be used by him.

Racists are generally as racist as far as their dick gets them. Few Klansmen would turn down Beyonce or just about any member of Destiny’s child...

I really loved it but the tonal whiplash with that show was painful. They weren’t really sure if they wanted it to be a comedy or a drama and it really does work better as a drama. They straight up lifted the characterizations of most of them from the Batman Animated Series then just didn’t find what they really…

Nah, I get it.  Cosby is 100% a monster.  The Cosby show comes off in a different light now but it’s still a way better product than the Roseanne show ever was.  Not to say it didn’t highlight social inequality but Roseanne never seemed to deal with black people because in this town that was a suburb/exurb of Chicago…

Roseanne the character helped keep up the charade of white working class ideals as non-racist and platonic to the American life. Cosby the person is and remains a sexual predator who played a significant role in helping oppose racism in the 1980s by portraying an upper-middle black family.

It’s all so painfully depressing.  I would actually prefer 100 more episodes of Columbo than one of this.  

Roseanne but fundamentally working class, the Cosby’s looked middle class but upper-middle.  But Roseanne also had the crime of papering over the overt racism that the white working class entailed. 

The same answer came up 20+ years ago. Gacy got away with it because gay men were less than and Gacy was affable, likable is too strong by most accounts, but affable. Therefore he built up a front, owned a contracting firm that help build alliances, and picked on a vulnerable class of people. He didn’t need a…

The problem is most crimes can be solved by doing a few simple things: Reducing poverty, stop giving men and whites blanket privilege, and listening to victims when they come forward especially from marginalized groups.

I have high hopes for The Batman but i’m just not sure if it’s going to deliver.  Still, this seems like a better take, the Fox aesthetic just did not help Gotham at all.  

They had ‘Gotham’ that sort of was doing that...but I really don’t want to watch Commissioner Gordon be detective Gordon. I actually really like Gordon as a character but they flubbed that show so badly because it should have been Gordon solving murders and crimes with the slow evolution of masked villains but it…

That’s true, too.  When 3 of the big 6 streamers aren’t able to access the two main sources of comic book IP, it’s going to be brutal to make use of it.  What’s interesting is that Disney seems straight up ready to mine Marvel with TV shows and movies, WB seems content to keep running the DCAU and hodge podge-ing…

I suspect part of why shows like The Boys and others are coming out are cost of IP. The main line heroes are toynetic, have decades of backstory, and have successful movies to their names. Getting them onto the small screen is both difficult for cost and reduction in scale. A spiderman show is more managable due to…

So, he went from being a successful investment banker to U15/16 successful Hockey Coach to modestly successful state U/HS Hockey Coach to washed up rink owner who’s going to come out of retirement to do what he did in his middle career?

He’s really starting to sound like his dad as he’s gotten older.