I'll try not to cry myself to sleep.

More - a Republican headquarters was bombed recently. I'm sure for whatever reason that doesn't count, but…seriously?

I concede this point.

I rest my case.

See, this is the nonsense I mean. All Trump supporters are the same, and if you disagree you're racist. It's a farce.

To put it another way - if you want nuance, you need to accept that nuance exists. Is anybody here willing to do that?

But this is kind of the point, though - LoT sees the Confederates as cartoon villains, the Union as cartoon heroes - and by extension the Republican Party at cartoon racists.

All right, I posted this as a reply to someone, and I think it's a point worth making on its own:

All right, I didn't see this episode, but that is my question.

Civil War's sympathies were tilted decidedly toward's Cap's perspective of "War is bad! But we're good guys, and we can trust good guys to do war".

Look, I don't like abstract either, I agree that a lot of "appreciation" for it is Emperor's New Clothes bullshit.

Sure…but she absolutely deserved to be sent to a psychologist (by her black, female superior, no less).

As do I, in theory. TWD is not the hill you should be picking to die on, though.

I do think GoT is nihilistic, but that's a whole other story. You're absolutely right that nihilism isn't just "darkness" though. That's a rookie mistake. "The Dark Knight", "Interstellar" (whatever its other flaws), "Daredevil"…all three of those can be dark, sometimes incredibly dark, but none of them are anywhere…

YES

I'm not even planning on watching the show but if Rick spares Negan on this show I will break the fucking TV.

But (as has been demonstrated over several seasons of reviews) he won't extend the same interpretive freedom to Rick Grimes and his gang because he doesn't see the point; he doesn't accept the basic premise.

I just hate the critical framework that impedes the success of genre fiction. It's a shame that it's lasted into this century; there's so much to be gained by appreciating pulp models of narrative and morality and ethics.

Bingo.

The guy trying to claim that the zombie show is one of the great 20th century contributions to storytelling is a snob, yes.