Richard III is a villain. Villains were often the protagonist of Elizabethan Drama. The idea that the protagonist is automatically some form of hero, anti- or otherwise, is part of the intellectual cancer that is Christopher Vogler's version of Joseph Campbell.

You seem confused as to what an antihero is, given that you've just perfectly described Draper as one in the process of attempting to argue that he isn't.

There's another option, and one in which Benjamin Button actually does play a part: frame-by-frame touch ups.

Nooooo.

Star Wars/ANH doesn't actually fit the "Hero's Journey" without a sledgehammer and a crowbar, even the Voglerised post-Campbell version everyone thinks of.

You are overstating the statements on cell tower accuracy made on Serial - the question the two experts were asked, and answered, was "did the cell expert who testified at trial present the technology accurately in a way that still holds up?”, and Koenig immediately follows that up with:

No, they really don't - and here's a newer post on exactly that.

And an earlier post:

The pings don't match up. They don't match up at all.

He needed more elftime. Dude likes cool elves.

"Maloof, who owns the majority of Maier’s photographs"

It's like how everyone claims that the Hobbit additions come from "The Quest of Erebor" when they clearly contradict nearly everything in it - likely for legal reasons.

Dracula was informed by Vlad Tepes, but *not* inspired by him.

"Instead of stepping behind the camera, as he has with every installment of the Transformers franchise, the Hollywood hitmaker has passed directing duties to one of his disciples, Jonathan Liebesman (Battle Los Angeles, Wrath Of The Titans). The results aren’t as painful as, say, Dark Of The Moon,
but they are…

Best to make sure there's not a bull in the herd before testing this out.

Cows are notoriously curious. You can make pretty much any noise and they'll come check you out so long as you don't make sudden moves.

"Politically Correct" used to refer to things like Lysenko's politically acceptable (to the USSR) but factually incorrect theory of genetics. So, these days, things like climate change denialism or the abiogenic petroleum origin hypothesis are - in certain quarters - politically correct but would never be referred to…

There's an awful lot of people saying: Roma are all thieves and liars, they deserve everything they get, and they brought it all on themselves.

I thought it was pretty obvious that Hurt's character was originally Eccleston's. Hence the Piper casting: Rose & the Doctor "reunited" but he has no idea who she is (or is mimicking) and will forget everything that happened anyway. Hurt worked just as well, but I can see the bones of what Moffat was originally trying…

What do you expect a television critic to actually do?