Wait, living at the end is now a banner for being a well-written character? He's literally constantly saving her, but as the climax has Indy simply closing his eyes that changes things?
The thing is, no Banks absolutely didn't. She called him out for not having female leads. That's it.
If that statement is enough to…

That's the thing though, she's no tougher than 1940s Lois Lane or His Girl Friday or Maid Marion or Tarzan's Jane. The script has her constantly screaming, usually for Indy, and he's constantly rescuing her. We all have this misapprehension that if the female lead actually has any character at all, then it must be…

Yeah…. but he just inherited that one from Kubrick

I like Marion, but lets not pretend she's much more than typical damsel in distress, the same character wouldn't have been out of place half-a-century earlier. And most of the characters treat her fairly exclusively as a sexual object, sexual assault is casually discussed and implied multiple times.

Yeah Capheus was hands down my favorite character on the show, and the main reason I was excited for it to come back, I'm finding it hard to muster the enthusiasm to watch it without him. But maybe eventually

Holy crap I did not make that connection. I will say though, I was ready for the writing to be sub-par and the acting to be very solid since there's a lot of familiar faces, but in the pilot I was disappointed by a lot of the acting too. After Atwell I'd definitely put Dungey in second place for best job of elevating…

You realize you're on a movie review website right? The discussion here is precisely about whether or not to go see his film, which I've been getting interested in for like a year now - no one on the site is thinking the legal system's going to rectify the situation, or remotely advocating that it do so. You…

All of the DVDs are like significantly cheaper to buy at Barnes and Noble…..

(First of all militarism and fascism are not the same thing, as much as fascist systems may often be militaristic. Militarism is not at all singularly fascist, the same way imperialism isn't. I do think that despite its stated intentions to thwart traditional militarism Captain America as a film ends up re-enforcing…

I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Also I agree, it felt like she was clearly interested before he got beefed up, particularly compared to the way he was generally treated in the dating pool, but at that point she was basically his CO and spent limited time actually with him.

So you just pretty much avoided my most important points.
1) Of the five Illinois governors who have been indicted since 1950, four were convicted, and the minimum jail time any of them received was THREE YEARS. Considering that Florrick had less time than that remaining as governor, I think the JAILTIME would've…

So I work in a bookstore, and the day the trailer came out, the book began HELLA selling. Like, complete backstock sold out. Now that doesn't at all necessarily equate to movie box office success, particularly if reviews are bad, but like you pointed out - the movie romance department has been desert dry the last few…

Hello! Holy Captain Semantics Batman!
So I didn't see this until today, and below is the lengthy response I wrote.
the tl;dr I think is A) You think I made a lot of claims I definitively did not make or intend to make B) I didn't intend my statements to be taken quite so literally but I defend that they were actually…

If you actually do the entire last half century you can also add Otto Kerner and William G Stratton. Stratton was the only one out of the lot acquitted. With Peter Florrick replacing Rauner, it means six out of eleven of the men who served as Illinois governor were indicted. Even in the case of Walker, it's still a…

In most cases I'm sure you're right, but in Illinois sending governors to jail really is par for the course. When Blagojevitch's Chief of Staff only got ten days jail time and two years probation it was considered incredibly lenient. If in this world Peter was elected in place of Bruce Rauner, it would mean the strong…

It also works on some Severus Snape level later on - sure he was too busy being evil to look after them, but if Luke shows up, he's still invested enough in Padme's children to be interested.

I think this tends to happen on a lot of the zanier long-running sitcoms - think of Scrubs or HIMYM - a lot of shows that center on a relatable, "straight-man" narrator inevitably find that narrator becoming boring/whiny, stuck in plots designed to keep him/her relatable and give the show narrative heft - it even…

I love Zooey/Jess (and Winnie) but I have to say I haven't missed very her much, with the exception of the Boyz II Men sing-a-long. Their harmonizing lacks a lot without her.

You haven't provided even one single more convincing alternative explanation. The truth is, you don't actually care whether or not Hollywood is sexist, maybe you even like it. You definitely don't care that the highest grossing actors, who are still considered make or break for getting non-franchise films off the…

Wow. So your argument starts with, this is actually not that sexist (even though it's actually insanely sexist as You Can't Stop ThaBeet immediately showed), and then it goes on to the classic it's not sexism, they're just better/more proven, especially at the box office (which is complete bullshit as Mike Piper…