Christ, are we still doing that trick where we pretend an obvious opinion is an empirical statement? You’re right, they probably ought to have put *******I THINK******* Will Ferrell isn’t funny.

As I’ve said elsewhere, I do agree that the showrunners are locked in to certain things because of the source material. However, pretending they have not made a variety of tweaks to the plots is simply untrue. Some of the problems exist very much in both places —Jamie, Claire and everyone else having to make illogical…

White, indentured servitude was world’s apart from black slavery, but i would be far more interested in a show that highlights that difference than the choices the writers have made.

You drop them in Connecticut, Rhode Island or Pennsylvania and it would be very easy to make the story around slavery something different. Pennsylvania abolishes slavery by 1780 and the landscape was very different from the south, would still put them in the heart of the revolution and could make slavery a point, but…

Some of y’all have such an odd disconnect from history and from people of color that it is baffling. Like, this mindset of acting like writing is done outside a cultural vacuum is just aggravating. Pointing out how media fails and then critiquing it has some of you tied up in knots. 

You can't compare chattel slavery to Jamie. I'm sorry. The enslavement of Africans were violent and the repercussions are still felt. Plus, the writers could have done much better. Much much better.

Good writing is able to make judgement calls on the central characters and I think that’s where the writing on the show (and to an extent the later books) let’s them down. For example, I don’t watch Mad Men and think Matthew Weiner’s point was that these people were good people even if in any given moment the…

Which poses the question: why bother tackle the subject at all? It’s one thing for the story to take these two to the colonies, maybe Boston or something, and then touch upon the horrors of slavery. It’s another to, well, set your white leads down in a plantation, surround them with slaves and “benevolent” slave…

Yes, it’s a romance novel that seems to never end, moving through periods of history with mechanical efficiency. Considering the very sensitive and insightful method the author brought attention to the genocide of Scotland’s indigineous ppl, the Highlander Clans, her mawkish handling of the peoples of America and the…

To be fair, the TV show is written by writers in 2018. You can do wonders for the original story with refreshed and updated dialogue and they actively chose not to do that.

I won’t speak for the reviewer, but there are some things that come up with Claire’s stances both in the show and the books, and mainly it comes down to character development. Claire never seems to learn her lessons. The whole of Season 2 was effectively “whatever happened happened.” No one should be thinking that…

Everything isn’t for everybody. Claire’s self righteous personality can be too much. She can change history but not attitudes. The author is correct these ethnic people are little more than props as Claire stumbles through a new situation every week that is morally troubling.

I like tapas and overpriced drinks in a jam jar as much as the next urban dweller.

And it’s pronounced “Sesevenen”.

Oh good, I wasn’t the only one. I was staring a thing the screen while the judges lost their shit over fat suit Shangela twerking and all I could think was “This isn’t funny.” So disappointed that Ben left. I was so hoping she’d win, especially since Shangela is likely going to win by default now. I’ll keep hoping…

I don’t know if Shangela will win but of the remaining players she certainly has earned it the most. What I don’t get is why she seems ro be so vexing to the AVC community/comment section, as if is just *SO* obnoxious or hasn’t practically narrated the season by just being the most engaging.

I watched that right next to a larger friend of mine who had just finished telling me about how a random guy had made fun of her for being “fat and ugly” on the street today. I was not amused by Shangela.

The fatsuit thing was straight-up offensive, full stop. Because fat girls are so fucking funny, amirite?

SHE’S NOT OKAY. EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY. What kind of paternalistic, anti-female, pathetic bullshit is this? It makes no sense, for one thing: someone entering Stanford in 2030 will have NO IDEA wtf this is supposed to mean.

May the student population of Stanford vandalize that shit daily with the quotes Doe herself wished to be presented.