Because she parlayed looking attractive on camera with no other discernable skills into marrying into the British Royal Family

((Except for Mystery Incorporated.))

While this sale might be a bad idea it in no way shape or form would create a monopoly.

The problem with Velma is that it sucks. It severely miscalculates the mean jokes to genuine emotion ratio, making everyone so intensely awful to each other than the moments of attempted sincerity feel empty and manipulative (Always Sunny has the good sense to not ask us to care about their plight). And the jokes are…

Minority-created media should be allowed to be mediocre or worse and we move along the same way as with something created by a straight white guy, instead of having to write some article like this defending it when there are plenty of South Asian-featuring media on TV right now that critics and audiences agree are…

I think the problem with Velma was just that it’s not actually good. 

Most of the criticism I’ve seen of Velma has run along the lines of it being smug, mean-spirited, and not nearly as smart as it thinks…with the related criticism that the Scooby Doo connection only exists because the show wasn’t good enough to be made on its own merits.

While they can speak to similar issues of representation, I’m not sure Azaria voicing Apu (and the question of whether voice actors need to match, loosely or precisely, the ethnicity or background of their characters) actually relates much to changing the backgrounds or traits of a live action character (you could be…

I’m not arguing against your first point because I agree, but:

Cracks me up some people want to paint a 40" waist as average. There’s a healthy middle ground between outright shaming people for being fat, and pretending being obese is healthy and desirable.

Agreed. About 36" waist currently as a guy and classify as overweight/borderline obese. Our increased sizes have become normalized to a terrifying degree.

While I think they probably should have designed this to be more accommodating, but less than 40" waistline isn’t “thin”, at least for dudes.

Source: I’m around 38" and I’m a bit of a fat fuck. 

The same CDC dataset cited noted that 42% of Americans are obese, a number that doubled since 1990. Not overweight: obese. 2/3 of adult Americans are now overweight. But I’m sure I’m in for a lecture or my post will get deleted for noting this.

He’s a hard character to write, but its not like they don’t have thousands of stories to draw inspiration from. There have been brilliant Superman stories in the comics by Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Kurt Busiek, Mark Waid, Jason Aaron, etc.

He really isn’t if you tell an interesting story with him.  Superman wins every fight, so making him fight all the time is boring.  Taking inspiration from something like All Star Superman and telling a story about Superman and his humanity is far more interesting.  I’m not sure we will ever see that done in a…

Eh disagree. Plenty of good Superman stories. The Justice League episode “Hereafter” is my single favorite episode of the DCAU and it’s a Superman story that both shows how important he is to the world and his resiliance in the face of adversity.

I don’t disagree with you at surface level, but then again, I always kinda thought the same thing about Captain America and between the writing and the casting, they fucking nailed it. No reason they couldn’t do something similar/interesting with Clark, too.

The whole point of rebooting Cavill is that they want a younger Superman

Wait, what’s the legitimate criticism? Dude is a successful content creator and bought a $2.7m 5 bedroom house in Los Angeles for him and his mother.

Superman is interesting when he’s allowed to be a fun, confident three-dimensional person and not a mopey chew toy to be repeatedly killed and turned evil. I think filmmakers need to realize the Superman as Christ metaphor well is dry. They forget he’s just a kid from Kansas.