The sheer number of ways they could have resolved the Zoom problem with the speed force transfer (but.. apparently…didn't?) makes me wonder if the people writing this show saw Spaceballs at an early age and thought the "…because Good is dumb!" line was a reasonable description rather than a joke.

The sad bit being that, honestly, "beneath this character's brittle waspish facade her true self is this other thing" is like the whitest thing ever. So there's a really obvious place to go..

The fact that one of them was a pug was amazing.

And, heck, a lot of those defenses were made by the people who were still criticizing that bit of the plot from S1: "this bit was good in some respects but was also kind of tone deaf in a problematic way" was probably the most common criticism of it.

I think that's what she thought she was doing, certainly. But it's in a context where she did literally get a bunch of actually thoughtful criticism over something and immediately insisted that it was also just that knee jerk internet-haters stuff (which is more or less what she's doing here too).

Longmire and maybe Banshee. But you're still right that it's super rare and Native Americans are probably the most invisible minority group out there in popular culture.

I think the bit at the end of the first paragraph here is dead on: Tina Fey is really good at poking sharply at stuff in a lot of contexts, so when she does something crude and cliched it really sticks out in a prominent way.

At this point I think it's fair to say that "political correctness" mostly just means "I'm mad that I don't get to say n****r in public anymore it's unfair".

Don't give up! In a few episodes they'll have a really fresh and sharp take on how worrying the new phenomenon of children being given prescription medications to make them behave better when all they really need is to be understood for who they are! Seriously, people are really going to be impressed by it in 2002.

I'm pretty sure this episode counts as evidence against the claim that "she just didn't give a damn" since the entire thing is an extended "fuck you people you just don't understand my genius you're all idiots who only care about saying that something is maybe a little offensive like little children that's all".

At the very least if they wanted to respond that way they could try to do it in a way that wasn't painfully formulaic. I kept waiting for them to do something clever or put a twist on the 'people who criticize us are just idiots who want to go around getting outraged by things that aren't bad at all so there' line…

But the Black Sky! You can't forget the Black Sky! It's… um… mystical ninja bad thing?

Also Daredevil interacts with him at one point.

That's not even remotely a surprise in the show, which is my point. It's a plot point, yes, but it's not something that counts as a surprise or a reveal or something that would affect what you know about things when you watch the prior episodes. In fact it's pretty damn obvious as a development, and actually just…

I was never clear on exactly how fat she was supposed to be, as opposed to just a stocky middle aged woman wearing a suit from the '80s. If aggressive shoulder pads worked for anyone, it wasn't shorter stockier people.

Beaten up by a bigger more muscular guy after pulling some kind of hideous "prank" that makes everyone unhappy while you laugh?

Yeah, but this text isn't actually a spoiler either. A spoiler has to ruin some kind of reveal, or surprise. This does neither.

I choose to believe that the reason Karen got the Urich office is because literally everyone else there refused to even go in the door, let alone work in it.

I feel like the ambiguity between "making noble sacrifice for a great cause!" and "self destructive addiction alienating him from his social connections" isn't bad in the context of the series, or at least it fits with the kind of ambiguity we see surrounding the Punisher as well.

It's also kind of tricky when those same people making the argument end up wildly misdescribing parts of his origin ( claiming he's an example of the "white savior" trope for example) in the process.