So wrong.

Sorry, but this is where you lose me. I’ve harped on this elsewhere, but what Marvel did here is take a character created by two Jewish artists to express their feelings against the Nazis — in the prewar period, a time when Nazism was actually pretty damn popular in the US — and then turn him into a Nazi after his…

I hate that that has to be our first thought when it comes to female characters. I love it when I read something that doesn't stop to that level.

Mark Evanier (who was Jack Kirby’s production assistant and eventual biographer) was asked what Jack might think of the new twist and wrote this:

I am happy people donated to the National Holocaust Museum, but your rationale is flawed. This isn’t Marvel saying Nazism is good and you should do like Cap and join him. This is a villain (foreshadowed jeavily as Red Skull) using some sort of trick (foreshadowed as a cosmic cube) to transform Cap into a Nazi. This…

There is, however, another layer here. That’s that a character created by two Jews in America before America started to give a shit about the Holocaust, who fought in the Holocaust and was an anti-Nazi symbol against anti-Semitism, is now being used as an anti-Semetic, Nazi character

It just feels like DC operates on a lot of assumptions and can’t figure out the right risk/reward:

Did you read Mo Ryan’s article on the 100 mess? There are multiple reasons why the fandom is angry, including continual baiting, invasion of LGBT spaces by writers who were trying to tamp down rumours that Lexa was dead and so forth.

From a studio’s POV, a film that’s expected to rake in a billion that only pulls in .75 billion has underperformed badly. Not saying that’s right, that’s just how they look at it.

It didnt even break 900 million, and got completely powned by Cap 3's boxoffice. It’s no FantFourStic, but yeah, it badly underperformed.

Nostalgia in general, but it doesn’t escape my notice that their “all-stars” are nearly all white, male characters. The characters you mention don’t have anywhere near the kind of marketing exposure of their legacy IPs - even allowing for their newness, they’re almost all spinoffs, sidekicks, members of ensembles, and…

On The 100, they had to write the character out because the actress had another commitment. It was just really bad timing, they killed her right after she had sex with the female lead, and a really shitty trope (killed by a single gunshot during a struggle between two other characters).

I have no statistics but I’d wager a guess that the ratio of queer characters to straight characters by percentage of volume being killed off is way higher. There are bazillions of straight characters compared to out queer characters on screen. People get up in arms about it because it feels like gay characters are…

Damnit, Massachusetts. Led the country in the American Revolution. Led the country in Marriage Equality, now leading the country on Transfolks’ rights. Are you feeling a little smug tonight?

She’s 17. I mean, I like her but Carol was an Air Force colonel at one point and has seen some shit. I know 26 year old Jennifer Lawrence gets mileage out of playing 40 year old women but fuck right off with that.

Just to remind you of Hollywood’s opinion on actress age and character age:

Reposting a particularly on-the-nose take someone shared on the last article:

The entire comment is full of so much WTF, like Adam Levine is held up as an example of an actors actor?

When I was reading his earlier statements, I thought he sounded like an ass. My impression of him hasn’t changed. He’s still an ass and he’s getting called out for it.

When I read the original post it, the director came across as the Prima Donna in the whole situation.