I felt the exact same, especially after reflecting on it for a few days. Black Panther is Thor: Ragnarok minus the humor. It’s like someone gave Taika and Coogler the same basic outline and they filled it with their own (brilliant) worlds.

Wow. WOW.

The OP did not compare them to video games, he used football as an reason for the violence. It’s not much of a stretch in that both video games and football being blamed for a school shooting is Fucking. Stupid.

I do? Do tell, miss Sally. Show my this magical connection between gun violence and football. Hell, show me these parallels between being a ‘cripple’ and being a former football player. You just want to stir the pot, bring absolutely no facts of justifications to the table, and then have the audacity to tell me that…

No, get your facts straight. The VAST majority of football players retire with little more than a few nagging injuries, and were rewarded handsomely for their efforts. My dad has more injuries and is more crippled than his two post-NFL friends do from being a welder. Sometimes hard work hurts, regardless of the field.…

How? Does football have potential long-lasting consequences? Yes. Does that mean it’s the same as shooting another human being with a fucking gun? No, not at all. I’m not denying the effects of the game, I’m refuting the fact that football is related to gun violence, especially when held up against other, much more…

Yeah, apparently Wakanda is a throne room, a lab, a hill, one street, and the waterfall/battleground. We saw a sky shot of the city, but it felt so small.

Again, how is hitting another fully ‘protected’ human being at all the same as shooting and killing someone? This hypothetical line you speak of is miles long and tenuous at best. By your claim, is hockey not more violent than football? They do, after all, allow full on fights on the ice. For that matter, what of MMA,…

Temper them. It’s good; not great.

Yeah, and it felt really ‘small’, but not intimate in the way that Homecoming was. Maybe that was intentional with mirror Wakanda’s isolationism. I was expecting more.

But how does ‘glorifying’ football = people shooting schools? Literally NOTHING you stating has anything to do with gun violence. At all.

For representations/themes, Black Panther knocked it out of the park. As for the actual story, I felt it to be very by-the-numbers Marvel. After Homecoming and Ragnarok, I felt a little disappointed to see it go back to the formula. I’d still put it at the bottom of the top/top of the middle of the Marvel movies.

Seriously, man, football as a culprit? That’s a bit of a reach there, Stretch Armstrong.

So, we’re back to this now, huh? Easy scapegoat. Don’t blame his mental state, KKK, lack of school security, etc. I thought we were beyond this ‘low-hanging fruit’.

I loved everything about Stargate up until Universe. I wanted so badly to love it, but it’s Stargate meets BSG vibe just made me, well, miss Stargate and BSG. The trailer on the new series did not do much for me, so I’m leery about jumping in.

What you did there, I see it.

I think io9 likes clicks, and this is a topic that guarantees them. It’s the same as the created controversy they tried with Altered Carbon ‘whitewashing’ the main character with Joel Kinneman, even though that’s THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE SHOW. As for this scene, it sounds like it was cut because it was superfluous and…

I’ve been out of the PC loop for the past few years. My CPU heatsink/fan broke at the beginning of the month. Bough a new one for $25 off of Amazon, I was gifted a 250GB SSD from my father-in-law, and my friend on a whim messaged me and asked if I wanted his ‘old’ Titan Black for free. After 4 hours of 4K 60 fps…

No, I just don’t think that some people will ever be happy. I mean, I could slam Black Panther for it’s underrepresentation of Asian cultures just as easily as I could slam how it doesn’t give a foothold to the gay culture or a soapbox for trans activism. This film, by all accounts, does an amazing job of representing…

Am I the only one that likes the eyes? Anyone?