I'd be far more sympathetic to the 'good non-racist' people who support Trump if it wasn't so blatantly, undeniably clear that Trump's entire candidacy is based on his being the loudest, most racist, most woman-hating person as if it was some kind of contest. That's literally what there is to him - you can't gloss…

I'm not exactly sure where you're getting the 'people didn't swear much before the sixties' thing but… no. Not even remotely. I mean, at best the "mainstream" you're talking about means "middle class white Americans who were adults in the '50s", and even then…

Hey the man has a point. Before Ronald Reagan shit actually fucking worked; and then after Ronald Reagan it didn't. That's how we know he was a great president and we should do more of the same stuff he did.

The language thing is more fun if you assume that it's happening in the other direction as well, to the utter confusion of the Japanese people around at the time who thought they were having a conversation with a fluent speaker and then randomly they just make some kind of random sound in the middle of the sentence…

I choose to believe she bought them off of the internet when she was fourteen, to try to show off to people around her, and then got trapped into it and couldn't back out.

You do realize that Iron Fist takes place in New York city, right? And has exactly nothing in common with the White Savior trope?

I like to believe that that moment was intended as a reminder that she's from the '40s, too. I mean, "Here, I got you proof of the existence of Ninjas - it's this crazy secret ninja weapon!" might make sense if someone was from a time when you couldn't buy them at the mall.

It wouldn't be too hard to imagine either: he'd just need to have spent the time away reforming the not-the-time-lords to protect history from changes.

The universe that the show is building isn't exactly one where the pretty callous/sort of grim way nature works around us on earth is balanced out by a more benevolent afterlife.

Well…. it might describe Chidi to some extent, but she was pretty much one hundred percent wrong about Kant who was actually a charming and outgoing man with a pretty healthy social life. (He also was, apparently, a big foodie.)

Is it even supposed to be a secret that he's married to her or something? I mean, I get that some people who work for intelligence agencies have cover identities, for obvious reasons, but usually the people who actually run them are kind of out there in the open.

I honestly still can't tell whether Diggle's little speech about the flag talking to him and how the chain of command means he doesn't have to think about whether what he's doing is right or wrong and that it gives him total moral clarity was supposed to be incredibly super creepy, but good god was it ever horrifying.

I think that the new forensics guy is supposed to be annoying/antagonistic/unfair/whatever, but to be honest that is exactly how people should be acting around Barry. Barry really is openly self centered, completely untrustworthy, and kind of a terrible person. Being openly hostile and not wanting to be around him…

It's not just that they failed to ring the bell, it's that they spent multiple sessions over several days, at the least, trying to ring the bell without a single one of them realizing that when there are three of you and only one person on the other side it doesn't matter how good that person is if you work together.

Those guys who were super delighted by picking up garbage were soul mates, right?

I don't know. That seems like a reasonable description of the experience of most of the things people do in any given day: not with significant emotion or thought behind the decision (maybe afterwards), but just going along with generally how the situation seems to be directing them. (Most of the time, let's be…

Literally: they would sit around in heaven watching the people in hell suffering horribly, for fun.

Oh there are even more amazing versions of that argument: Aquinas argued that (1) the people in heaven will not be able to feel any pity or mercy towards the suffering of the people in hell, and (2) contemplating their suffering will be one of their greatest sources of happiness.

One of the biggest implications of it - which I'm not sure whether or not the show plans to talk about but it would be a good idea - is that personal virtue is kind of empty as a concept. At best it's a derivative best-bet sort of thing. So if they are working from a genuinely utilitarian view there's not much…

This was also my first thought when they revealed it.