That's a better worded version of the explanation I was given as a child but it still doesn't hold up.
A rule can't have any exceptions, otherwise it's not a rule, it has to be explicit and absolute otherwise it's a suggestion or a theory.
A rule can have conditions defined within the rule itself, but as soon as you…

As a child I questioned this and was told that every rule has one exception, therefor once you've found it you've "proved" it's a real rule.
But even back then I that made no fucking sense.

I'm going to agree with that, although I think it partly has to do with them tailoring the character closer to who her talents.
When they moved away from the personally-of-the-week plots and gave her a more consistent character she did a much better job.

Oh yea, I forgot about Agents of SHIELD (probably for the best) that show definitely suffer from waiting around for things to cross-over with not having the time to establish it's own arcs. Agents Carter is much better so far and hopefully I'll the Netflix shows will be a step up too.
I think because they have a bigger…

Any show with Enver Gjokaj and Tatiana Maslany together as an acting super-team would make me super happy. 'Gjokaj & Maslany' make it happen Hollywood!
Every-time I see Enver in something I'm super happy he's getting work but also feel like his amazing talents are never used to their full potential, I suspect I'll feel…

Yea, we're very similar. I want "TV-level" continuity in my comics, everything follows logically but the decades of continuity never get in the way of the story but rather improve it. If I can't have that I'd rather have less than more.
Which is why my perfect system would be each run having it's own continuity, like a…

"a reboot of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse with Tatiana Maslany as the lead"
And there we have the correct answer. I think it would work better as a prequel or something else "in-universe" because the original series was so recent and perfectly fine (despite Eliza Dushku's performance). Reestablishing that continuity and…

Can you at least confirm your catchphrase is "time is a flat cookie"?
My sources tell me it's about you an Elmo solving a 7-year long case over a missing cookie but the story is really about your addiction and infidelities in that time.

"I can't really fault the companies for responding to incentives, even if it doesn't produce much I want to read."
Exactly. This is sort of how I feel, Marvel and DC comics are like a crazy encyclopedia of mythology and continuity for fans to unravel but I just want a straight story (which I get from indie comics).
It's…

"Stan Lee was talking about "the illusion of change" as far back as the 60s."
That's actually very similar to what Dan Harmon says about television. "The trick that television plays is that it swaps out any meaningful and therefore potentially television-subverting truth with the basic, eternal "truth" that change is…

I've not seen the film so it could make sense, but if that is the case why should I feel sympathetic for their finical situation?
I know people who are like that but I'm not going to feel sorry for them when they need money because they could just stop pretending to be rich and downsize. Unless that's the moral of the…

Yea, I agree there are sometimes situations where it makes sense from a logical character point of view.
It can even be great way of subtly delivering back-story showing "these character used to be rich" without heavy-handed exposition.
I can't think of a better example off the top of my head, but I was watching a…

Are you sure it wasn't a very clever assassination attempt?

You comment reminds me of a long argument with someone from a film course at university.
They were amendment modern indie films were all the same and universally terrible, yet every example I proved where that wasn't the case was an "outlier" or "a one-off, that doesn't count".
You've provided pleanty of examples of…

Luxury cars and other expensive products in films about characters in finical crisis really break my suspension of disbelief.
I assume they're included as part of a product placement deal but what does the director expect the audience to do? Pretend the products aren't there, replace them in our minds with a cheaper…

Congrats on getting your TV special by the way. Is that going to have a shoe-horned happy ending?

Here's a non-conspiracy theory example of how a decision from Disney might effect the plot of Marvel comics:
There's Gambit film set to come out in 2016. Now if that film was made by Disney and they wanted to heavily promote it, they'd let the X-Men comic book writers know so they could play up the character of Gambit…

There are definitely conspiracy theorists out there. Like I said I'm not suggesting they'll cancel those books and it's nothing as extreme as "the president of Disney rigging the books" but there's plenty of evidence corporate mandate effects the books.
You think it was a coincidence a Guardians of the Galaxy series…

Exactly, I'd love it if they made all their titles 'Elseworlds' or 'What Ifs' but with longer runs, anything from 1 to 100 issues with each writer before everything resets. That way you could still have these epic single-writer runs on with a comic knowing they'd be able to fashion their own ending and the next writer…

I actually have the first issue of Uncanny Avengers bagged and boarded and never got around to reading it (it's not worth any money is it?).
It's not really a conspiracy theory, it's corporate synergy, you say "the comic people make comics, the movie people make movies" which is true but they have the same higher-up…