Finn spent the entire movie running, sweating and terrified like an escape slave. He was in constant need of rescue. As opposed to the ultra-competent Rey, who breezed through the movie. As a thought exercise imagine how women would have reacted if they put Rey on the promotional potions and then in the movie it…

Jessica Jones is the exception that proves the rule. Big thumbs up to Netflix on that one. Diggle is the sidekick/valet. I never watched that Heart of Dixie show. Ravi is an amazing character. I'm not saying these types shouldn't exist. I'm saying what really doesn't exist. It's like Will Smith. People complained that…

I didn't say he was badly written. Those traits don't inherently make a bad character. But he WAS written that way because he is a black man and black male characters are only assigned to certain kinds of roles. It's like Finn from The Force Awakens. Somehow a storm trooper trained from birth is cowardly, inept and…

They wrote the Mon-el character as a roguish, self-confident bad boy. They wrote James as a timid, emotional cheat, who is jealous, threatened by his previous girlfriend getting a job at Catco and too cowardly to go after the woman he really wants. I like Mon-el better than James. But I've never seen a black Mon-el in…

"Though I like Chris Wood a lot, I remain uncomfortable with the show ditching Kara’s black love interest only to immediately saddle her with a white one."

Having the person you have come to accept as mother ask you to stop calling her mother is massively traumatic. But because he loves her he took it. Yes that insecurity was redirected at Daniel, which was wrong, but the way he shouldered it from Janet and did not tell anyone about what amounts to sexual assault to…

The guy who plays Bobby is an outstanding actor.

He was never a cheap foil. The writers took great pains to show his sympathetic side, particularly in his faithfulness to Tawney and his selflessness with Janet. People were just making a surface judgment of him and Tawney.

Definitely. Or when Janet told him to stop calling her Mom and he accepted it - for her.

I was always sympathetic to Teddy. In fact I got into many an argument in the AV Club comments section defending him. People's problem with Teddy always had more to do with what he represented than who he was. Yes he had some small town jerk in him but when you look at the enormous displacement Daniel's arrival…

This episode really stood out to me because I've been questioning my love of comics and comic shows as a frivolous interest in the face of racism. I'm an older geek, from the time before it was "ironic" or cool to use the term geek in a positive manner. On one hand we are living in a time I've always dreamed of living…

I think we have to question the entire idea of what West World is and what a host's capabilities are. Maybe, the idea of a western AI-filled theme park to amuse people is a construct for something else. This would be similar to what was done in Ex Machina, where the premise was a misdirect. I don't think there has…

I have a strong suspicion that we are in for the misdirect of a lifetime. As it stands, the only person I believe is not a host in this show is Anthony Hopkins. After this episode especially I am convinced Jeffrey Wright is a host.

It's always fascinating how cruel and self-serving people are when it comes to the denouncing of nice guys. They are simultaneously pathetic and sinister - master manipulators who give everything and get nothing.

A minus? And Gotham is getting a C every week? By the way, I'm not defending Gotham.

The script for this show is actually pretty weak but the direction is so outstanding it overcomes it quite often. Not in this episode though. Is Barrow supposed to be the devil incarnate? Does Gallinger's sister-in-law have any personality other than silent, scheming husband usurper? So many one-note villains. And now…

The characterization of Oliver is one of the things I liked least about Arrow when it first came out. In the comics and the Justice League animated series Green Arrow has tons of personality. He was probably the most down to earth member of the League. But I'm really pleased the way they are making him less dour this…

They should make Sava a South Park character.

Wow. The characters on Flash are so like-able that they make the Arrow characters more like-able.

I wish they would do more with the culture of the Inhumans. I know they are supposed to be a substitute for mutants and I think that's a good idea but unlike mutants, the comic book Inhumans have such a deep culture that it would have been interesting in seeing that play out dramatically. They touched on it a bit last…