That's fair (and in particular reminds me of the Game of Thrones scene with Cersei and Jaime). I just find it tragic that the show that was praised for dealing with victimization in a way that wasn't completely tone-deaf actually did exactly that.

That's an interesting point as well. Man, this continuity is getting seriously messy…

The problem is that the showrunner sees their sexual encounters as fundamentally healthy.

Ha ha. I'm sure he would have loved to, but who could have made that happen except Fury? Any competent SHIELD agent would dismantle Kilgrave in short order.

Doesn't SHIELD already have a superpowered registry, the Index? I feel like Coulson and company would have wrapped up Kilgrave in an hour, given that his kryptonite includes earplugs, white noise machines, boomboxes, loud clubs, fingers in the ears, flashbangs, constantly blowing a whistle to make him unintelligible…

I wanted to like the show, and I stuck with it to the end. But I kept getting so frustrated by repeated moments of truly abysmal writing. The support group storming Jessica's apartment and wrestling her to the ground is the probably the stupidest scene I can remember from any recent Marvel film or show—-and mind you,…

It's particularly aggravating, given that JJ's entire motivation was rescuing a damsel in distress—one that eventually had to actually kill herself to get Jessica to drop it.

Called out for some things, maybe, but never close to adequately called out for others. The show did not remotely, for instance, own up to how fucked up it is to stalk and sleep with someone whose spouse you killed. Even if we buy that Luke understands that she didn't have control during the killing itself (after…

Louis CK in a Game of Thrones version of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"? That sounds amazing.

All mockery of the Jews and their one god will be kept to an appropriate minimum.

I'm pretty sure that was their point.

Blackadder is available in its entirety on Hulu.

My problem was that it cut out almost the entirety of the main character's time with the Danes, which was about 35% of the actual book.

There's a lot more to consider here. In the Civil War story arc, not only did enhanced individuals have to register with the government, they basically had to operate under government control (be integrated into a local team under the Fifty States Initiative). One of the objections to this was that powered people…

The show lived and died on its NBC ratings—meanwhile every single person I knew who loved the show consumed television solely through streaming services. Had Hannibal begun as a Netflix original, it would have survived.

This is a bizarre argument. If someone has one genetic disorder, why would it preclude them having unrelated ones? It's not like premature baldness makes you immune to sickle-cell anemia.

It would actually be far more implausible for their physical changes to only be related to their specific abilities, because the ways in which genes are interconnected is far more complex than that. There's some fascinating research, for instance, on plants containing genes that cause deafness in mammals, and genes…

Oh, I don't know, studying quantum entanglement can get pretty expensive.

What was most aggravating was that Shane, the unscrupulous psycho, seemed to be the only one taking issue with the increasingly ridiculous shit that Rick and the rest of the group were doing to appease Hershel—and Dale, for god's sake, trying to hide the guns.

It's weird, though, that they skipped almost half the first book— and left out almost all of Uhtred's time with the Danes. It was the part I was most looking forward to, and it made me sad.