Just like the original BSG was a response to Star Wars in 1977, this is the same attempt to cash in on the success of The Force Awakens.

That’s what was so skeezy about the descriptions. It sounded like a bunch of lonely old men writing the beginning of their own erotica.

Except that they had a gay regular, Steve Jinks, in the last few seasons of the show. So I don’t see why they would’ve been homophobic about Myka/H.G. (Which is a pairing that totally should’ve happened — and IIRC, Jaime Murray agreed with me on that when I talked to her at a convention last year.)

I wish I could give you a hundred stars. That forced romance plot utterly ruined this last season of Warehouse 13. As you said, the writers established a brilliant platonic relationship between Pete and Myka, that they even used to subvert many of the dumber romance tropes. And then in six episodes for no reason they…

Christ almighty.

This would count as both #2 and #5, I think: Pete and Myka in Warehouse 13's final season. That was just totally wrong. The series had spent years establishing them as totally platonic partners who saw each other as brother and sister and were revolted by the idea of a romance between them. There was even an episode…

The premise of the Purge movies is, of course, completely absurd. That’s kind of the point. The notion that we “purge” our anger and hostility once a year by acting out all our negative impulses with no consequences is just a smokescreen—in fact, the annual “crime is legal” night is all about culling the population of…

Hey, sometimes the internet forcing couples together turns out all right.

I never watched the original, but the second was a pleasant surprise. Really captured the feel of a modern version of a dystopian 80's classic. Eager to see what the next one gives us. If they can pull off another hit like that one, it will definitely be an entry for a later ‘most surprising series of all time’ posts.

The Purge no longer feels as far-fetched or ludicrous as it did a few years ago.

I think it was unfortunate that they didn’t hide the Winter Soldier identity.
My wife wasn’t a comic book fan, but she really loved the Cap movie and was really sad when Bucky “died”.
I thought the reveal would be a cool twist for her (and the non-fan audience) so I avoided telling her for a year after they announced…

Well said!

...the name Khan is treated like a big reveal in the movie, with dramatic music swelling and everything, but it means jack shit to the characters.

I assumed he was talking about the SHIELD=Hydra thing. Granted, that’s *also* from the comics, but, since it popped up in Secret Warriors, far fewer comic fans would have been aware of it.

Somehow I managed to go into Winter Soldier with absolutely no inkling of the “Hydra is Shield” reveal, and it was amazing......... ever since then I’ve tried to be a bit more wary of spoilers (even accidental ‘hey, I guessed right!’ ones). While I don’t think knowing a twist ruins a movie (I’m definitely a…

I think their thought is that we’re going to get confused. Which is insulting. Human beings aren’t different and nerds aren’t better at keeping track than . . . normies I guess. People are capable of keeping up with anything they just have to like it. So if you make a good show and movie universe people won’t get…

The reveal fell flat, as fans had guessed Harrison’s real identity even before Cumberbatch was cast—and the overwrought, repeated denial of the obvious helped turn fans against this movie.

I don’t know but he’s not the only director who keeps taking magic-related projects and then ruining them by gutting them. Maybe it’s an inherent bias, he doesn’t like that approach so he wants to prevent others from enjoying them - certainly that mentality shows up in politics a lot.

Get the trade. It’s awesome.

Too late.