The showrunners have said that ongoing operations continue even if we don't see them. Philip is still spending time with Kimmy, but he was able to put off the prospect of sleeping together by improv-ing the stuff about finding God.

I'm RELLLLLLLATIVELY soft on Gaad — he's a smug prick and kicked dear Mail Robot, but he seems like a decent boss, and not as much as a repressed, violent asshole as Stan — but I got a really ugly, paternalistic vibe from that "they married… my secretary" moment. Like they stole his toy.

Pretty sure Tatiana WAS lying. She arranged a pilot for the biohazard, but not Martha. I think she's heard from on high that Martha… won't need relocating. I think that was the point of the scene with the message relayer, when he asked if there was "anything else" (meaning Martha).

She did notice the wig. In an earlyish episode (season 2?) she tells Philip/Clark that she's known he wears a rug for a long time, and doesn't care. He's flabbergasted to be caught in the lie, but she interprets it as self-consciousness.

Ditto in regards to why I fell in love with Community, and that being how I ended up here.

I've told this story at the AVC and Avocado before, but the my earliest memory is recounting in great detail, shortly after I had started talking, how I, as an alien spore, had fallen off my home planet and down to Earth and into my mummy's tummy via pores in her head. There's video of it somewhere. To the rest of my…

And people say it's the "SJWs" who respond knee-jerkishly and lack reading comprehension.

Ummmmm, yes. If making white supremacist propaganda was good business, I wouldn't do that either, because I'm not a terrible person who's willing to contribute to racial inequality for a few bucks. What the hell kind of thing to say is that?

You're being condescending again. I'm not interested in you "you're not like other girls"-ing me. There's plenty of nuanced, insightful commentary here; it's why I and many others come here.

I think it's presumptuous to suppose that he definitely got his education on sociopolitical matters from the internet in the last five years, as if whitewashing and racial sensitivity have just become an issue. Racial issues in Hollywood have been a matter of controversy and criticism a lot longer than "SJW" has…

Well, yeah. That's what the guy's saying, haha. His whole point is that there's literally no way to slice the Ancient One (and Strange himself, really) without either:

I agree with everything you're saying — but you lack the perspective of someone who's had "SJW" used as a way to dismiss and discredit you, so that you may be laughed at, harassed and abused with impunity, for simply espousing some progressive view, or worse, being a woman and engaging in cultural criticism. (You may…

Erik Lensherr is German, though. He's a German Jew, right?

He could have said it without insulting anyone (and for what it's worth I think he meant to). He makes the point that people have a right to be upset about this. He didn't set out to say "the easily offended crybabies were always going to find something to whine about", he seemed to be saying, "there was no way to do…

It doesn't really solve the problem at all… the controversy is that a white woman was cast in a role that is canonically Tibetan. It doesn't matter whether you can tell the character is Tibetan in the film, it's still whitewashing.

Your willingness to entirely dismiss thoughtful criticism as an "entire dismissal" is at the very best highly hypocritical. It's a very condescending, easy way to avoid engaging with the topic of how we express ourselves and engage in cultural criticism.

If there was ever a term that truly earned its knee-jerk revulsion, it's SJW.

The headline made me vomit in my mouth a little, but reading it in full, and seeing that he actually does approach the topic with a lot of nuance, I'm going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and assume he has just heard the term "social justice warrior" and doesn't really know how fraught and insulting it is.…

Learn to talk to people without condescending.

I love superheroes, but I sure am getting destruction fatigue. Seeing all those cities getting vaporised left me with some serious and unwelcome Man of Steel-related feelings. There's a point at which senseless destruction isn't raising the stakes anymore, it's just… happening. Once four or five cities get…