Here’s my cunning investigative journalism: Neil Gaiman denied this and said most of the article was fiction. Kinja won’t let me embed the tweet but it’s on Twitter.

It was a good episode but a bit short on the laughs after Eleanor got sent back to Earth. I’d give it a high grade for Ted Danson’s “hot diggity dog” alone though.

After the last few years I don’t think there’s that huge a difference between semi-terrible shows and the Marvel shows...

So they’re taking Nic Cages face off and putting it onto another actor’s... They should make a movie about this.

Craig is the host our society needs, but James is the one we deserve.

Reviews shouldn’t be written someone who hates the show

It’s slick (it looks better than any Trek I’ve ever seen) and it’s (sort of) fun. If your idea of fun is comic book darkness and constant plot twists. And Jones is great. But any Trekiness it has is mainly from name-dropping and telling vs. showing.

There’s also the fact that he said, “Let’s go home,” and then punched in some kind of spore drive override immediately before they jumped to the MU.

Ah, good old ‘progressive’ US universalism and cultural imperialism! There can be no deviation from the ‘progressive’ US way, ideologically coded as ‘the right way’.

This isn’t surprising. The rumors have been floating around out there for awhile.

He’s only wrong in the sense that Iron Man was not a household name when that first movie came out. In fact, much like Black Panther, he was a B hero in the Marvel Universe with a few beloved runs but also a problem keeping an ongoing title running and very little knowledge outside of comic fans.

I’m pretty sure he was saying “lack of identifiable lead” as in nobody knows who this guy is. And “main heroes” is referring to no Captain America, Iron Man, Thor etc. to boost interest internationally.

The are missing the cultural context in America.

The show would be better with less Seth Macfarlane.

There is an extremely long history in the West of dressing up and impersonating people from other cultures for comic effect, indeed it is still done very much nowadays.

I was trying to the say the JT writer, up on his high-horse, is making demands on Japan which are not followed in his own country, something he does not acknowledge.

My main point is that the writer for the JT comes across as demanding Japan conform to his American cultural outlook.

Outside the USA “blackface” is not really considered an issue, especially in countries with little or no dark-skinned population.

Deathly Hallows Part 1 was easily worse

*fills in the ‘Blaming Stephen Moffat for things future showrunners have written’ square in my Doctor Who Bingo card*