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Chris Ferejohn
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"marginal-quality heroine"

Yes, but one of them was the voice of Samurai Jack. True Story.

I don't see what's to disagree about. He wasn't listening to the radio. He intentionally put on a song to go kick ass to. Your interpretation that he'd be listening to stuff and wait until the right song came on doesn't make any sense.

Well there was a 10% chance such a character could end up secretly being the bad guy. I think Yahtzee from zero punctuation described such a character by saying "he might as well have been wearing a t-shirt that said 'I will die or turn evil'".

Wait, any amount of moral ambivalence makes her a weak link? I count that as a strength. She's machiavellian enough that I expect she ends up on the 'bad' side of the ledger, but so far her belief in the black community of Harlem seems real and I hope she keeps that.

Yeah, seems like a pretty obvious comic beat in superhero-ish movies. Kill Bill did it at least.

"Luke Cage isn’t just the first black protagonist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe," So we're ignoring Sam Wilson and Mac and Tripp from Agents of Shield?

You…sound like you haven't watched the show because that's not what he does at all.

Wait, are you fondly looking back on the stupid minuteman hiking a football? Because that thing was awful.

So was Full House, which just got a goddamn reboot.

I hope they get him to play anthropomorphized cancer.

Jesus there was a Waiting for Godot joke in Home Improvement? That…surprises me.

Well yes, but Full House and Saved by the Bell were probably worse (and certainly less popular at the time) and those get gushed all over.

OK, the slightly redder and bluer gray pixels are smashing against the slightly blacker gray plxels.

Of course they aren't, but if they subvert what a large majority of fans opinions (both hardcore and casual) of what the character is supposed to be, they are at the very least fighting an uphill battle. That's not to say a dark dystopian Superman movie couldn't be a smashing success, but it's walking a much narrower

I thought the Nolan movies did "dour" pretty well (and at times very well). It's not like GrimDark doesn't have a place in superhero stories, especially Batman. It just feels like the lesson DC may have learned was to strive for that tone in everything (on the movie front – the TV shows do a much better job in varying

I expect they fell short versus the Marvel movies, which I expect are the big obvious measuring stick.

I have always been really curious what exactly the guests were looking at when they were being interviewed. Sometimes they seemed to sort of be aware of what was going on (though it's possible their responses were just edited to make it seem that way).

The thing I found most disturbing was how hungry the show made me…

Well he deserves some consequences in his professional life, which you know, happened.