I think author wish-fulfilment self-insert used to be the primary criteria, which I thought was a much more useful idea for critical purposes, but it's shifted more recently to the too-perfect thing (which often seems far more gender-biased in its use than the older version).

The 'Previously on' was a pretty big hint, but following it with 'Alternatively….' was a good gag.

If you pause on Amazon Prime (on the iPad app, at least), it gives you the cast list for the scene.

Part of the reason he pops up in other characters' stories as much as he does is that he provides handy deus ex machinas, I think.

The next ten are explained by trying to run away from someone right in front of you when you've just been cut 20 times.

One partial handwave might be that Kilgrave gave them a "how to feel about events" command, and that makes them rationalise things more than the "do this" command a lot of the other characters get.

"moviegoers in China haven’t exactly been waiting on this sequel with bated breath."

Though some of the more extreme arthouse movies may provide the same opportunity.

I thought it basically went:
1) Draw elaborately detailed cartoon.
2) Add dialogue caption that really doesn't make the work involved in 1) seem worthwhile.

Theory: a lot of people have wanted to punch Jon Snow in the nose at some point.

There was no actual murder, and Ashildr set events up.

Her introductory arc positioning her as A Mystery first of all rather than a character started her off on the wrong foot, I'd say, and the Capaldi era had to do a bit of catchup on developing her. Otherwise, though, I think it's mainly individual taste.

If Netflix ever makes a 26-episode series, I assume the last few reviews in the AV Club's binge-watch will just be extended descriptions of hallucinations brought on by sleep-deprivation.

I'd like that too, but it would have to deal with being the odd one out among the Marvel Netflix shows, considering the way they're shaping up.

"It's a Good Life" is fairly close to that (though about someone who shouldn't rather than simply can't be defied).

There's a jaded feeling running through a lot of Season 8, I think, but in a way that produces interesting ideas rather than the that'll-do stuff that comes a bit later.

There's a difference in that a film is a finished piece of work (which was probably shot out of order and went through lots of script rewrites), while a TV series is an ongoing production, which has more chance of coming together over time. Which still doesn't require that viewers wait around for it to do so, and it's…

Didn't, but they'd done Grey Hulk, Hulk under Rick Jones' mental command, Flying Hulk, Banner deliberately changing into the Hulk with gamma-ray projectors, and Hulk with Banner's head by that point.

How about "Dracula and Vampires"?

"2) That Ren told Miko he loved her after he found out she was a computer program made real."