I appreciate Zemo as both a character and a mouthpiece, but I suppose I’ll be “that guy” and argue that the MCU has gotten a little too big for his commentary to credibly go uncountered by some straight facts.

Yes, we should all be very happy to live in a glorious future where censorship no longer exists due to an artful linguistic technicality. Is there stuff that’s basically impossible to consume because concentrated, powerful publishers and distributors and other moneyed interests have decided that it’s a big red nyet?…

The Civil War never ended. It went cold.

What’s so shocking is that it would’ve cost them so little money and goodwill to have hand-waved that entire abortion.

This show’s series of decisions (and non-decisions) with Nia have been jaw-droppingly bad. Once a season they reference the fact that she actually has a dream-related power, and then the rest of the time it’s Neon Blue #6 CGI bullshit, and that bullshit can do literally anything the writers want it to do at any…

>notably based on reality and capable of influencing reality

I think Dan’s running up hard against the pratfalls of particularism in this column, because all I kept thinking throughout his entire response was “I’ll bet the LW’s SO has done the second-most-loving thing for this guy at least once.” I don’t even know if I believe that based on the evidence presented, but the Imp…

I’m at a point in my life where my body is so broken down that it can’t derive enjoyment from any illicit substance except food, and even that’s not without its consequences. Having a sugary soda gives me jitters and heart flutters, and forget about a caffeinated one.

A musician playing for fun isn’t working. When he starts asking for donations, he is. But he’s not suddenly sex working. What the hell are you on about?

Agree on Batman, disagree on Superman. Superman is so close to being a god that when he decides not to interfere somewhere, that’s something of an endorsement. He’s too big to dodge the “gotchas.”

Okay dude, I know the main thrust here is that the DC movies have been bad, but the Crisis crossover was awful - and, in fairness, that might be because it hewed too closely to the source material. Gigantic revelations about the true nature of the cosmos were being dropped on the cast constantly like giant space…

It hardly matters, since there are secondary markets for pickled and salted memes too.

I’m on the other side of the old man bell curve when it comes to video games, because I’ve been neck-deep in them for almost 30 years. What makes me feel old is hearing my teenage cousin talk about Fortnite like it invented literally everything. But that’s its own kind of fandom, and always has been. You don’t have to…

Unsellable line reading of the night goes to Benoist with “DREAMER. WHAT DID YOU DREAM?”

It’d be a little lame for it to go haywire when we’ve already got multiple examples of fairly stable supersoldiers running around.

Hollywood is a weird situation because it’s the direct descendant of freak shows and creep shows. These were places in repressive societies (so, like, most of them) where odd people could find a home and a job, rather than being continually shit on just because they were odd.

Yeah, this problem is never going away. Supergirl (the show) established that Earth is a refugee camp for aliens in a massive galactic community, and The Flash (and Black Lightning) established that metas can crop up from any number of non-alien sources.

>Plus, 28 years is still a very long time in techno land, meaning plenty of time to sell your product.

I tend to think that “reasonable” copyright law simply isn’t possible given our technological moment. What we have now is a disaster, sure, but the most sensible alternative from a technological perspective - “fuck it, free information for everyone, do your part to distribute, contribute, and preserve” - would demand…

Step 1: turn people into dogs