Sometimes it’s the contract, sometimes it’s they like or are proud of what they’re doing with the character (Melissa Benoist has spoken more than once about how “inspirational” playing Supergirl is), and sometimes it’s “Sure the working conditions suck, but I’m making anywhere from $2K - $1M an episode so I guess I’ll…

You think that’s bad? Nathan Fillion and Ruben Santiago-Hudson alleged they routinely worked eighteen-hour days on CASTLE! That’s a show that’s action-light and largely consisted of Fillion and Stana Katic flinging dialogue back and forth at each other.

No, you just clearly suck up to Corporate Masters first, last and always, given your defensive tone now.

No, he sounds like a “Blame the Victim” type.

Now, Now!

I know Goyer’s your supervillain like ZackSnyder!’s mine, but I still think all the crap is on Snyder because it fits everything else he’s ever done.

Because face shots are really, really hard, especially against a moving target? Even a headshot’s easier because you have the entire head — here, all you’ve got is the lower face and eyes, and he’s usually in motion which makes him an even harder target to hit. Odds are you take that shot you hit his mask, which is…

A lot of people who came of age, or where new adults, in the 1970s -- that’s when I first heard it used with any regularity.

It doesn’t matter, Arriffic — even if you did, Kinja wouldn’t let you!

I can imagine all I want, but that won’t make it so.

Snyder aped Nolan.

Peacemaker would see it as “just following orders” like a good solider does. It’s not even as if he extrapolated from what Waller ordered him to do — he followed her orders to the letter, right down to killing any witnesses (or trying do!) that Starro was a U.S. Government Black Op.

I think I preferred the cowboy — but, there you go!

I don’t like how it turned out, but I love the premise and wish they’d had to money to do it justice.

Unspeakable Axe — I didn’t like it, but not for that reason at all. I didn’t like it because I was expecting something transcendent and really spooky, and what I got was some cheap-looking thriller with potentially good ideas (largely, it turned out, from Nigel Kneale).

May I introduce you to the DCEU or the Kurtzman STAR TREK universe?

Quiet Dignity and Grace, that’s STAR WARS fandom!

I knew it existed, I just didn’t know if it was still on.

After what Zack Synder did?

I remember! I was actively reading THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN back then, and it wasn’t until people started commenting on how “brave” Marvel was to go against the CBA that I even noticed it was missing.