Disney+ is in danger of setting up a “bullets: my one weakness!” paradigm in these lower-power shows.

It’s the grand paradox of lawyerballing in fiction. You have to make the terms so incredibly dead-obvious because you want the audience to believe that they themselves are forming a meta-compact with the author - there are certain things the author is now not allowed to wriggle out of! But then that means that…

I found it supremely believable. Cops often slip into the mindset that sometimes the people on the ground floor just gotta go out there and break some rules and crack some skulls, because the higher-ups don’t get what it’s really like out there. Cue Alan Moore: superhero comics are all about rigging the entire world…

It would’ve been way better if those Widow stun thingies had hit her in her fake leg. As it stands, I agree that we’re starting to see some stupid Plot Armor on her.

I want to see Chekov’s Room Full Of Swords subverted by Indiana Jones’s Anti-Chekov Gun. It’s very unlikely to happen given the arcs we’re seeing for both Clint and Kate, but a guy can dream.

Finally, I can have “ownership” of a “thing” inside of an environment governed by draconian unilateral licensing agreements and terms-of-service agreements! Please pay no attention to the fact that said agreements already emphasize six different ways from Sunday that I own nothing, control nothing, and have no…

In isolation, yes, but my point is that Caldwell’s rituals should lead to a significant number of his victims “ruining everything” in very similar ways. So now suddenly we’ve got a highly-ritualistic serial killer whose rituals are both 1) insanely reckless, and 2) themselves create a very high probability that things…

Sorry, when I say “rapist,” I’m speaking from the reasonable conclusions drawn by his victims from context, which would then lead them to try to use sexuality in a Hail Mary play to survive.

I would not have objected to the girl saying “are you feeling it now, Mr. Caldwell?” during her Hail Mary stripdown, but only because this episode tanked the season. Dumb references and memes are all we have left.

“Maybe this entire industry is fucked BUUUUUUUT death threats” is vastly more common, and I’d say the tie on which is shittiest goes to the profit-seeking corporations that systematically abuse their customers and have the resources to aggressively reframe the narrative.

The Caldwell situation was already a lost cause last episode, where we watched him proactively establish himself - in a public place, with lots of witnesses - as one of the last people to see a future-disappeared-girl alive, talking to her, offering her a job, all that.

If the cops’ main point was that maybe you shouldn’t be shooting up heroin during algebra class or ask your teacher to manage the rubber tubing or belt or whatever, I probably would’ve been fairly sympathetic.

The U.S. judiciary is allergic to the notion of advisory opinions, and it’s not entirely clear they have any other choice; the Cases and Controversies requirement is deeply embedded into the language of Article III of the U.S. Constitution.

“But we’ll happily make exceptions whenever we feel like it. OMG CHARLIZE THERON MONSTER SO BRAVE.” - same idiots

I mean, I hope so too, if only because I’d rather it be a good show than a bad show. I don’t generally hope for shows to be bad. I hope for bad shows to fail, sure. That’s different.

Well, the big problem with all of these examples being cited in replies to my comment is that they’re overwhelmingly about innocent people getting caught in the crossfire.

For all of Tony’s flaws - a few of which they renewed/reinforced in IM2 in defiance of the arc they just showed in IM1 - “sins of the father” in the western world is a pretty good way to rig the deck in favor of the son who gets targeted for revenge.

That’s a fair enough point to make, but it’s not like Carlsen is an MMA fighter in his spare time who’s stumping for the tiebreakers to happen in the octagon. All he’s doing, actually, is suggesting that the “main brawl” is increasingly a foregone conclusion, so why not skip ahead a bit? When the “main brawl” ends as…

Yeah, but you’re forgetting that accountability - both literal and spiritual - is inversely related to how awesome your superpowers are.

Caitlin was a pretty big voice of reason this week too, and she got utterly shat upon for it. I guess she got a metaphorical last word when Cecile “thought of Joe” though. That’s something.