I completely agree that part is relatively believable, what more threw me was the initial 'Hey, a robust fleet of space pirates just showed up in our space-space but they say not to worry because they are cool,' that particular confluence of 'well, we might need their help' and 'hey, why not?' that's an, hmm,…

It's the artifact what makes you tell the truth and the more powerful you are the more terrifying the truths you tell.

He was a unicorn so pure the very process of defining a maiden would've made him faint dead away.

While I like the recent run a great deal, what I miss about the 'golum' origin is that it also incorporated the 'found child' trope. So Hypolyta prays for a child and finds Diana while walking the coast of Paradise Island.

Eh, wasn't early season Liz still harboring some soft spoken Chicago loyalties?

God bless you, all other gimmick posters are now as stars to your sun.

Yeah, the bit where Maria Hill makes such a phenomenally obviously bad call is where I called it quits on the whole event. I kept waiting for that particular bit to be called out as the skrull plot, but… nope, still waiting.

Yeah, in terms of odd impressions, I walked away from that movie thinking that Xandar clearly had the most flexible and pragmatic state department imaginable but that those qualities seemed to have an inverse relationship to the quality of their civil air defense.

I thought that was more her trying to figure out how deep Zach's lying about the situation went.

Well, to be fair, what actually happened with Alicia in this situation is that she married the guy, and Alicia is VERY clear that she is not Veronica and does not expect her children to treat her the way she treats Veronica.

I don't know. If there's one thing we can say for oppo research it's that it's more deep than broad.

I don't think this is exactly true, per se*, but it is a fun story!

The Good Wife

It was standard - More was very scrupulous in following the law on this point, as on most others, though in this case not much to his credit.

Yeah, the stats were for conservative, moderate, and liberal not right, independent, and left.

Except that (A) we've seen Zach do this before and (B) Alicia and Peter were both pretty peeved out by their kids being actively dishonest with them in the past. As parents they (and particularly Alicia) certainly don't see the lying door as appropriately swinging both ways.

Yeah, that whole plot-line left me with a strong sense of foreboding - particularly that Eli with his strong sense of new media's pitfalls and army of internet operators wasn't all over it. That it wouldn't come back under these circumstances would be either surprising or indicate that the plotline was just generally…

That seems like a perception more appropriate to an outsider than to someone who had an integral role in the lives of all involved.

My much younger little sister, even at 3 possessed of exquisite and unusual taste, insisted on watching this movie daily for a year.

I think it was mostly funny because it was an inversion of a common 'American Dream' type trope where Smither's is actively annoyed at the thing that is supposed to happen actually happening.