I only started watching @Midnight a few months ago, and I don't watch The Walking Dead or its aftershow, so I have no idea why Hardwick is reviled by a large segment of the online commentariat that The AVC and elsewhere.
He seems like on e the good ones to me. A genuine nerd (he got pissed at the @Midnight audience for…

Pretty much the only way I'd be surprised by a Radiohead album these days is if it was a guitar-bass-drum hard rock album.

I want to snark, but I can't. Members of three of the greatest bands of the last 20 years teaming up? Sign me up!

Any half-decent excuse to rave about how awesome Josie & The Pussycats was!!!

Josie & The Pussycats for me.

I'd still be interested if it was the artists doing the angsting.

I was all psyched to watch Vinyl when it premiered, but I erased the episode from my DVR after I read the first reviews. I was anticipating a show about the 70s rock & roll scene, not yet another show about self-destructive middle-aged male angst.

I don't think it's even been released here in Oz yet.

Gamer is an underrated movie.

I'm a big Max Landis apologist - I think American Ultra was underrated, and his Superman comics are exquisite - but this does sound insufferable.
I'll still probably watch this though, because you'd have to work reeeeeeealy hard to make Kendrick and Rockwell unlikeable.

Yes, but it's only a harmful expression because of pre-existing imbalances in media representation due to deep structural factors. Therefore it doesn't matter what Rothenberg's intuitions or rationale may have been, because the end result is the same regardless.

I shudder to think how social media would have reacted to shows that I was heavily invested in as a teen, like Babylon 5, Xena and Buffy. If those aired today, the showrunners would have been tarred and feathered for their use of 'problematic' tropes. Perhaps rightly in some cases, but the furore would have likely…

One solution to this is for fans to tone down this narrow 'structuralist' view of media (and society in general). That is, the idea that everyone's behaviour or views is a manifestation of vast implicit social forces. i.e. that Rothenberg was 'programmed' by his relative privilege to not understand or care about the…

I kinda hope he doesn't. I've always liked his character, and would like to see him more involved with the wider Bat-verse. Maybe he could finally learn the truth about his daughter?

If you didn't like Grayson, I'd be hesitant to pick up his other stuff. His Vision is VERY different: more like a Twilight Zone episode than a superhero comic. The Omega Men is a cult classic in the making, but I haven't read it.

I love love LOVED 'Superheavy', and Snyder's overall Batman run.

"although you had created that character, you proved unworthy of the purity of such a character"

I agree, but I think we're in the minority.

Lake Bell you say? Sign me up!
In A World was great.

Yeah, but like, in an ironic 'Oh! The 90s!' way