Welcome to the “failed spin-off canceled after 1 season” club, The Winchesters! You’ll be in good company here.

Yup. It’s the good wise king ideal: yes having a good, wise, compassionate king calling all the shots and making the right decisions is probably a great system of government - no politics, no infighting, no bureaucracy, just a single noble soul with everyone’s interest at heart.

Have a great week-end as well and thank you for the nice words!

Yeah, I get what the sentiment it’s getting at is, but it’s really the vagueness of the speech that bugs me. With Dr. King, or Ghandi, or Franz Fanon, etc, their speech for civil disobedience are specific. The only way for authoritarian and fascist to twist them is to cherrypick them out of context (see what Fox News…

So “communal knowledge” might not be the best wording, but basically, the whole speech is based on the ideal that a single individual’s determination of what is right and wrong is more valid than the social, historical or scientific consensus. Yes, the consensus can be wrong, and should be challenged, but it should be…

I am of the opinion that Sin’s Past is rotten at its core, no matter whose kids it is. The whole idea behind Sins Past, according to Strazynski’s itself, was to bring Gwen Stacy down from the “pedestal” fans had put her on. I have two problems with this:

Apart from King Triton, a trident, and the basic concept of a mermaid, there is very little Greek myth in Little Mermaid. In fact, even the mermaids are closer to European folk nature spirits than Greek mermaids. Meanwhile, the entire social structure of the movie is based on Euro-American culture, the surface world…

Real life is full of exceptions. History is full of people who were looked down on for some trait or another and who made it into a position of power anyway, including in organized crime. Sure, a mixed race Vito Corleone would have had some extra barriers...but if he was ruthless enough and smart enough, he could have…

Hot take: I’ve always hated the “No, you move” speech. (here’s the speech for reference)

What if that Black man playing a Corleone is called Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito? Is that Italian-American enough for you?

“It would be like making a movie set in Mesoamerica pre-Columbus and casting it with all white actors or black actors for that matter. They simply didn’t exist in South America at that time.”

Alan Moore changes the characters in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen a lot. Many in much more fundamental way than changing their skin color or their genitals.

“Both potatoes, tomatoes and tobacco can be grown on Middle Earth latitudes, so my argument stands”

“The Little Mermaid isn’t really anchored in anything except Greek mythology.”

And if you were reprinting Lord of the Rings and changing that line in the text, sure, I’d be right there pissed off.

Oh sure, there are, but they already complained about it when Black Aragorn was first revealed, a year ago. They didn't get much oxygen, so they shut up. But the current crop of whiners is made mostly of people who've never touched a Magic card. 

The Odyssey is your example? The story based on and which modifies a number of prexisting stories, attributed to an author we are not even sure actually existed?

Except there is no facts in what you say. Lord of the Rings is a work of fiction. Middle-Earth doesn’t exist. As such, it is infinitely mutable. You cannot go to Middle-Earth, take a picture, and say “see, only white people!!” Middle-Earth is a product of subjective imagination. It exists only at the whim of both…

I’m pretty sure that card is for Commander. Commander players have been begging for more 4-colours legendary creature for ever. So it shoulsn’t be a problem. And since it’s mythic, it won’t show up in Limited much.

“Numenorians were refuges/survivors from JRRTs Atlantis, that fled to a Middle-Earth that was populated by humans (as well as elves, dwarves, orcs, ents, probably proto-hobbits etc) such as the ancestors of the future Rohirrim.”