Because here’s the thing. When the predominant narrative surrounding historical fiction in and around the Civil War is to carefully erase the parts of the narrative that actually involve the crimes the Confederacy committed against African-Americans, which were vast and terrible. And when this has been taken to task…

Oh goodie, now we’re getting to the point where fans try to pretend that Joss Whedon, who did what he explicitly referred to as a “space Western”, somehow managed to create a story about ex-soldiers fighting for a lost cause against a larger military power responded to their loss by drifting out toward the frontier…

Let me rephrase the question to make it clearer: “Do you think it’s inherently wrong to sweep the systematic kidnapping, torture, imprisonment, murder and enslavement of tens of thousands of human beings under the rug in order to craft a narrative that romanticizes their kidappers, torturers, imprisoners, slavers and…

No no no no no. You don’t understand. He didn’t fire her because she was pregnant and couldn’t work, or even because she was pregnant and it would be difficult to shoot around. He fired her after the pregnancy was over, when the kid was born and shooting hadn’t yet started on Season Five, in retaliation for having…

She published a direct excerpt from Whedon’s apology letter where he admitted all of this in his own words. Whedon’s response to the media didn’t deny that the letter was his or that it was accurate. Or is he a lying bitch too?

Yes, that’s literally exactly how Lost Cause narratives work. They carefully remove the historical context of the conflict from their story, so that the only thing remaining is the romantic notion of people fighting to stay free from unwarranted interference in their way of life in the face of overwhelming odds.…

“Clearly, you missed the part where the AV Club declared he was never a feminist, because he cheated on his wife...while telling her that he was far too feminist to ever make friends with men, and that was why he hung around alone with younger women that relied on his good will to get jobs on the many many TV series…

Speaking personally, once I started re-evaluating Whedon’s work it wasn’t particularly hard to find a lot of shitty performatively “woke” feminism under the surface. A lot of the stuff I’d found myself making excuses for, like the way he fridged Felicia Day in ‘Doctor Horrible’ or the way Buffy wound up dating her…

**cough cough** Firing Charisma Carpenter between seasons four and five of ‘Angel’ because he was pissed that she got pregnant and spoiled his original idea for the season finale **cough cough**

My big problem is that they show him breaking up the band to do a solo album. Everyone knows they were touring together!

Got it. So when I use “Helliph” to describe a useless dipshit who thinks that sophistry and pedantry are useful contributions to a conversation, I’ll make sure not to attribute it to you. Thanks!

Yes. It really can. There are indirect benefits other than the pure financial “being paid to write a joke” compensation that comes from having credit on an item. If I’m a comedian trying to get a tryout at a comedy club, and someone says, “I’m not hiring you, I heard all those jokes on Conan a week ago,” I am being…

Everybody dies.

I always feel like “you need to see it from the beginning” is a subtle form of gatekeeping (or sometimes not so subtle); most of the time, it’s pretty easy to interpolate any missing information from previous installments (oh, that big purple guy is the baddie, oh, the big shiny rocks he’s looking for give him…

Babylon 5. That was really one of the first shows that had an “arc” planned out, and it would have been nice to hear the AV Club’s take on it.

Apparently Christian Kane wasn’t happy at the time, either. I was just reading ‘Angels and Vampires’, the oral history of the show, and he kind of felt like as one of the only two cast members (along with Boreanaz) to have been there at the very beginning and the very end, he really wanted to be present for the final…

I don’t know why you say it can’t end in an apocalypse—the whole story is about people being short-sighted, stupid assholes grabbing at their own power with no care or attention paid to whether there’s going to be anything left for them to rule once their war is over. Seriously, the only honest ending to this series wo…

The raccoon corpses were hilarious, but I was somehow even more impressed with her reaction at the council meeting. “Is this MS13?”

“I am the Ancient One. You have called upon our pact, as per the convocation assembled by our ancestors, and the legendary Eye of Agamotto answers.”

I think that the difference in litter sizes and gestation periods might make it an inapt comparison? Like, I’m not sure how fast silver foxes breed and how many pups they have, but the more animals you have to select from, the faster you can domesticate.