I wanted to like it, but I didn’t . The plot was generic, and by making Steve Trevor a cliched ‘funny’ sexist, it turned Wonder Woman into the typical straw feminist - humourless and aloof.

I feel that Marvel have only been pushing that ‘apolitical’ line because they were caught off guard by the backlash, which TBH mostly seemed to come from people who weren’t reading the comic. It was damage control that then got incorporated into the discourse as if Marvel had been trying to hedge their bets all along.

I had the exact opposite reaction. I thought “Oh no, not another show about assholes”. Anti-heroes are all the rage now: Breaking Bad, Game Of Thrones, The Knick, The Americans, The Expanse, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Supernatural. Even Doctor Who and Superman have been written more like brooding Byronic types lately.

Sorry to break it to you, but just this week in the comics, Rage died. Or at least, he’s in a brain-dead coma.

This story seems to be enjoyed by a lot of commenters here, and I wanted to ask: why?

This really seems like an interesting show that is well made and explores intriguing ideas. It seems like the sort of thing I’d really love and be grateful to have on television.

What I absolutely LOVE about this show is that it found the perfect balance between serialised storytelling and ‘monster-of-the-week’ tales. Every episode contributed to the characters’ story arcs and developed their relationships in some way. But most episodes also had strong, clever, self-contained stories that were…

I actually really like John Carter, except for one thing: Why isn’t Mars RED? Why instead is it this sickly shade of grey/brown? It’s not particularly spectacular.

I don’y like that they’re focusing on the Major’s ‘secret past’ (blerg) at the expense of the more interesting political/technological developments of the future.

From these descriptions, I far prefer sound of the original, positive version with nicer characters and less Batman.

They think, “The stories I loved as a kid had happy endings and simple depictions of good and evil, but now I am an adult and I know the real world is more complicate than that. Therefore, the things I loved as a kid must age with me and develop layers.” By “layers,” they mean “pseudo-intellectual bullshit that proves…

I have to do it in order to read ANYTHING from DC at the moment. What they did to Superman still enrages me if I dwell on it.

The thing I’ve realised about comics over my decade of reading them regularly, is that when a story is as badly-written as Civil War II, you can just make the conscious decision to ignore it. The shared continuity of comics make it hard sometimes to just excise something from your ‘head canon’, because the idea of a…

I like that movie. I thought it was a fun straight-faced 80s fantasy throwback.

You know what IS a good sci-fi show - surprisingly, given how generic it looked to me at first blush? The Canadian/Netflix show Travelers. I’d like to see some coverage of it on io9.

There are two problems with a Dune adaptation IMO:

Jyn was actually one of the least interesting parts of Rogue One. That was not due to Felicity Jones though, and more due to shortcuts in the script.

Nope. Uh-uh. These are all simply examples of bad storytelling.

Counterpoint: Netflix is taking the place of the bottom self of the video store, the place where you could often find obscure B-movies and cult-films-in-the-making. Movies that weren’t perfect but had something interesting to offer.

I think you’re missing the joke. Of course he wasn’t ‘twisted’. The joke is that they seemed to be trying so hard to make a ‘twisted’ ‘shocking’ ‘original’ Joker, and this is what they came up with.