Except that since real conservatives believe in the rule of law and in the Constitution that can’t happen as there is freedom of Religion. Now, I see both sides starting to pressure religions into concessions/absoluteness in that freedom of religion within reason. I.E. from a liberal perspective abortion isn’t wrong…

The writer is not JUST killing the character to end the arc. It’s taking a non-essential character and giving them a purpose. MK’s death had reasons, as I already stated. It’s not a development of her character, but of Ferdinand’s. And since apparently he’s going to be with us until the finale, they do need to work a…

First, I’m not interested in complaining about a male character killing a female character in a brutal way. Sometimes this shit happens in TV shows. If you’re going to start assigning real-world consequences to everything that happens in every TV show, we should just stop making TV shows.

I wouldn’t agree that MK was a key character, but she had the potential to be one. I suppose we’re in Martin’s “kill your babies” territory in that respect. The scene was brutal and explicit in a WTF fashion that has few rivals (maybe Coulson killing Ward in AoS?). It was a bit of a jolt for a Sunday morning and…

Couldn’t agree more. Are the critics who decry this type of content as ‘sexist’ in favor of censoring all media that would depict violence against women? It happens irl so it could happen in fiction, just like anything else. Doesn’t mean theyre condoning it. You’d have to be an idiot not to know the difference.

Full disclosure: I don’t watch this show, but I do have a concern about your point. Did the show endorse the concept of men using violence as a means of dealing with sexual frustration, or was it just using the concept? This is one gripe I have with certain criticisms, this idea that media can’t comment on certain…

I’m referring to training longswords, which have rounded tips. This one is typical:

My mom always told me to never bring a sword to a gun party.

Swords down one’s back is one of those tropes that while being visually striking, makes anyone that knows swords wonder what 10 year old green lighted that decision. And when we see it in real life, we only assume that the person at hand is either chronologically 10 or mentally 10, because otherwise there’s no excuse.

And basically useless. Except maybe as a poor excuse for a club.
There is nothing more dangerous to the user than a dull edged weapon.

But I’m sorry, even a dulled blade can slice and dice your spinal column to Kingdom Come if you so much as sneeze the wrong way.

I remember it well, Meat Sword Back, good villain

“One of the coolest visuals in Wonder Woman was when Diana went undercover at a Nazi party”

Everyone I’ve seen doing this has been either a historical fencing enthusiast or a stage combat practitioner. They have access to safe, blunt training swords that are no more likely to damage a person, nor even an outfit, than a broomstick would be - there’s literally zero risk of being cut or punctured.

Actually Cuckservative is as an alt-right thing, not a “not-so-nice liberal thing.” Specifically it is meant to refer to white men, especially conservative white men, who are a traitor to their race. I assume Jujy’s using the term ironically.

I could totally see McCain showing up for this drunk if he really, really didn’t want to be there.

That’s why I think SG-1 succeeded so well with Atlantis and I think Universe...the characters.

Yeah, it’s interesting the way the villains worked on that show. You really got the feeling that, rather than a show about going out and discovering new worlds, it was about the goa’uld for quite a few years, and then the replicators, and finally the Ori, and just dragging those interactions on.

Babylon 5 remains some of the best-written and best-acted science fiction ever. I’d say it holds up fantastically well. I struggle to think of anything that can compete on those terms - sure the visuals are a bit dated, but the costume design and prosthetics are still pretty much unrivaled, and the performances were…

All 10 years of this show were fantastic. They showed a very consistent adaptation to new technology they begged / borrowed / stole along the way. They were confronted by one moral dilema after another and even got to make fun of themselves at every turn. SG-1 was as classic as classic science fiction should be and…