DoFP in general felt like somebody had a REALLY good movie written about the First Class cast fighting against growing anti-mutant sentiment...then Singer took over and glued on the original trilogy as a framing device.

See I think that doesn't solve anything- its almost like admitting it's too much hard work to write a convnicing and engaging female character so instead we'll take a popular male one and swap genders. I think more emphasis needs to be made with regards to crafting new and intricate female characters personally. If…

Wah, the Tara and Willow storyline got SO FUCKED UP towards the end, and then there was the infamous Spike/Buffy near rape scene that also got never addressed properly. Buffy just kinda shrugged it off apparently. Not cool. Not cool at all. Never watched Dollhouse, but with Firefly I feel that Inara being called a…

It's a comic book movie (CBM) and CBM's have shoehorned all sorts of things into them for (1) profitability (2) racial diversity (3) cross-promotions and (4) just because. Surely a little gender diversity isn't going to break the (usually rudimentary) narrative.

The problem is your article is fundamentally flawed. You're operating under the ridiculous assumption that WB has the teensiest, tiniest clue what they're doing :D

Yeah, female-lead movies never make as much money, which is why the Hunger Games was such a huge bomb. And Buffy was never popular, or Xena. And Captain Marvel has been such a disappointment to Marvel. And none of the female characters on Game of Thrones have any fans...

Yeah sure probably Rogue got cut from DOFP and it was for the better, but at the same time were I writing I'd never paint myself into a corner wherein I only had one female character and she didn't fit.

You can do both. I'm sick of this idea that putting women in films will inherently risk the quality somehow. This isn't an either or situation.

including gender diversity doesn't mean either making every woman the focus of every story or sugar coating the shit women have to put up with from chauvinists like Mal. No, Whedon isn't perfect with his female characters. They all don't always get as much screen time as maybe they should. They're flawed, but no more…

Where did I say you were a dude?

Funny I didn't.

More women than the original a "problem"? Isn't this what retconning was invented to fix? If it really bugs you, just pretend it is all happening on Bizarro Earth.

I'm gonna out nerd you asshole. You do realise that all the different film series each have their own Marvel universe number designation right? By Marvel cannon the movies (Ie The Avengers verse has one universe number, Fox's X-Men another, Sam Raimi's Spiderverse another, etc....) are all cannon as they are all…

I think I picked a pretty fair battle tbh. First, film adaptations never stick to the original source material—even in Man of Steel, Lois Lane figures out who Superman is basically right off the bat, which kind of throws away, what 20 years(?) of comics.

So, because the story started out sexist that's how it has to stay?

I hate to say it but this movie has box office bomb written all over it. This could be the one to finally burst the comic book movie bubble

But academically both are done before those things happen. What happens next is their professional training and has nothing to do with the validity of their professional doctorates.

I'm not sure if it's the glasses, the smile, or both, but he looks like Stephen King in this shot. Having a fairly shitty father of my own and being a big SK fan (SK is a doting dad and talks about his kids nonstop), this made me smile.

I'm not putting any pictures up here, but my dad was fantastic and an incredible feminist. He was mostly a stay at home dad who never seemed to think that role emasculated him. He hoped to have daughters instead of sons; he had three of us. He raised us to care more about our accomplishments than about our looks or…

When I was a kid my Dad was basically involved in a start-up and worked Sunday through Thursday and sometimes went on business trips that lasted weeks, but he always had time for me. Our set time together was watching TV after dinner, in this exact position. We would both fall asleep on the couch, but we were…

I never got to go to camp. I always assumed it was as fun as Salute Your Shorts.