I mean, Daredevil isn't going to be the background character in his own show. He might not make much of an impact on the Avengers movies, but that needn't change how his show is.

Yeah, if you wanted something different from the MCU, "swashbuckling" was right out. Almost all the movies have swashbuckled to varying degrees.

The line is something like- "a voice that could command a god, and does."

What if Daredevil himself carves it in? Worked pretty well once…

I dunno, I'm not sure I need my super-heroes to be "tarnished" for them to have an all-time-great story (though I would agree that none of the MCU films have been "All Time Great"). Maybe I'm just still getting over the '90s, but it's nice to have stories about guys who try to do the right thing and don't get…

Well, I'd definitely argue that the "touch of fascism" in the Ultimates "worked" there (and I'll bracket whether or not I think it worked, 'cause no one needs me to bitch about Millar this much in a week) because that Cap was a different character. MCU Cap- as well as 616 Cap- struggles quite a bit more with his role,…

I actually think they've done a decent enough job bringing out the different notes in each film- with the caveat that "rollicking action-adventure" is actually a pretty wide genre. But I can definitely see a difference in approach between the first 2 IM, Thor, both Cap movies, Avengers, and GOTG.

Certainly with the Sam Jackson of it all, and giving the Avengers such a connection to SHIELD, but at least the first movie had far less of the mean-spirited jingo-ism.

How about Data?

Let's stay with the same shitty writer on the same character: "Do you think this A stands for France?"

"I never said homosexual activity should be forbidden by society. "

"I do think his reasoning is weak, but you're not going to get a natural law theorist on The Good Wife or anything."

"1) The sexes are different in a meaningful way that impacts how a relationship work. 2) Reproduction is necessary for a species."

This really isn't as hard as you wish it were.

"For me that just leads back to "most everyone's a bigot about something""

Man, the Shaq references are one of the most on-point period details I've ever seen in a sitcom.

Platt's characters' words and actions went beyond "any bias". He was intolerant. He was a bigot. "I love my gay nephew, I just think he should get less rights than me and I'm going to spend my millions to work on that" isn't any more noble than any of the other anti-equality nonsense, and the fact that the show…

I don't mind when Gary Cole gets the last word in an episode, 'cause they've put enough work into the character that he's earned it, and because gun control politics are pretty complicated.

How were their lives ruined? They got $500k out of the deal!

I hold that, on the page, CJ Cregg isn't actually all that much better than the women on the Newsroom. Allison Janney was just really good at finding her notes of agency, and that elevated the proceedings.