Right, but that was the problem: there was little reason for her to kill anyone and it felt shoehorned in, so she would be bad-for-bad’s sake because what she was doing was actually pretty well justified — and in one sense legal. The Flash, art collector guy and Dibney seem unaware of the 1994 Native American Graves…

That mightn’t be so far off the mark. It’s changing some but I’m old enough to recall the writing for comic books from the 80s and, for example, while Chris Claremont has some good story chops, there was a real adolescent streak to his view of women. I’d not find it unusual if the CW writers had some of the same…

Also the balloon animals were just creepy.

Totally agree here, the whole episode was written by people who have been in a time capsule of Native Stereotypes that dates from before Dances With Wolves. It was lazy, and just plain racist writing.

OK, I am late to this, but this episode was pretty tone deaf at a number of levels.

Not to That Guy That Guy, but the concussive force from a grenade isn’t all that much, relative to the damage done by the little chunks (that’s what they are for and that’s why grenades have those lines cut in them, so that they blow up into a maximal number of chunks to shrapnel you). In the water, it’s a different…

OK, I watched some eps through and I have to say, this has to be the weakest Marvel show so far.

I am going to offer that is a maybe-maybe not threat to the local bodegas.

Part of the problem is Lord Tarly has some very rigid rules of loyalty (despite fighting for the Lannisters here) and he's basically a nationalist (and maybe a bit racist too). He was upset that Danaerys was effectively fighting with a foreign army.

AIUI there's a more self consciously north of England thing for people from the North. Littlefinger's accent sounds almost Irish, though.

OK, lot of this stuff didn't come out in 1997, but it's the stuff I was exposed to the most working at a local paper in Connecticut and not having a ton of time to do things.

Also let's be clear: Thermopylae was both a tactical and strategic failure. Salamis was where the Persians lost, and Sparta had little to do with it.

^^THIS. When people say it had no influence I am just like, "dude, have you been listening?" Those Internet Tough Guys vote, too.

I don't think anyone has said here (or in any reasonably intelligent conversation about culture) that there's a direct through-line from media to behavior. The studies people have done do note that the distribution of changes, though, does happen, though the people that did
them would note that it isn't a one-to-one…

Right, exactly! There's even a scene in the comics that makes that explicit. "I'm forty and starting to feel it…" from the original Nite Owl, and he notes that Dr. Manhattan and to a lesser extent Ozymandias make him obsolete.

I thought it was watchable but the problem is that Snyder missed the point. Moviemaking like that isn't just about whether you do shot-for-shot remakes of the comic; it's also about emphasis.

Thanks for that note, even if a bit late. I wasn't aware of the law in England; certainly in the US it wasn't uncommon for free black people to be kidnapped and enslaved in the 18th and 19th centuries (more so the latter since the slave import business was shut down).

I'll throw out some things speaking as one old enough to remember seeing the first movie (which I too refuse to call A New Hope) in the theater in 1977. I was about eight. I recall a first showing my parents took me to for a birthday, I think.

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I'm not super thrilled with them but I'm more sympathetic because my immigrant in-laws used them to make sure they could understand the movie (the dialogue was in English, and the subtitles were too).