This was exactly my experience as well.

• Right from the first appearance of Mr. Banana Brain, that Darkwing opening was the most excited I’ve gotten about this series since the pilot. Judging from mine, yours and other commenters reactions, the copout twist was a serious miscalculation. Not the best sign when you’d rather be watching the…

I agree with your criticisms regarding structure, logic, stakes. What really jumps out at me with this show is how most of these characters display a level of awareness comparable to those of toddlers or the brain-damaged. Everyone seems to manically react to whatever they’re experiencing in the moment, with…

Long before there were Star Wars(tm) Legos, my cousin and I would play Star Wars using a combination of space, medieval, and generic Legos. My cousin had a knack for meticulously recreating the sets and vehicles (his Emperor’s Throne Room was basically screen perfect). I had a talent for thinking outside the box to…

For me it was Panini sticker books, specifically the Masters of the Universe line.

My interpretation is that Thanos is a mad moralist with a relatively narrow and specific vision. He sees a problem, apparently shared across many planets and worlds, which is limited resources vs. expanding populations.

A cookie swirl is like taking Oreos or other crispy cookies and pulverizing them into atom-sized crumbs, and then swirling them through the ice cream. But the crumbs don’t get soggy somehow. I’m not convinced that it isn’t really sweetened sawdust.

Phish Food is my go-to, but Chocolate Therapy is an underrated dark horse.

I found it really interesting, one week after watching Philip putting Paige in her spy-game place, to see the humiliation on his face as his son discusses pulling strings to save his failing business.

I thought that too. Of course, a few minutes later I wondered if her intent was to lure Philip into helping her without being so obviously direct. So it goes when watching this program.

“When I’m done, half of humanity will still exist.”

Now that I know, I hope he wins. This’ll be me:

I didn’t like the look when helmetless, armorless pictures first started spreading around, but danged if it didn’t work out beautifully for the character.

I’m one of those people who genuinely believes overpopulation is a serious threat, no matter how many experts claim otherwise, so I also found myself growing sympathetic to Thanos’ cause.

I just got home from the theater, and was thinking about this topic a little bit during the drive. Here’s where I fall on it: it doesn’t matter that most of these dead characters’ futures are assured, because as of right now, they are dead.

Seems all these event call-backs to classic Simpsons episodes rely on the show’s first decade for inspiration. Hmm.

I used to really love the show, but it has this kind of barely-concealed treacly earnestness (especially the kid-centric stories that seemed to occur more frequently in later seasons) that I found tiresome after a while.

I for one was sort of fascinated with Manky while playing DKC back in the day and would have placed him higher. He popped up sporadically enough for me to believe the encounters were all with the same dude who who just really had it in for DK, but why? Was it a clan dispute or something more personal? Is he a…

I think you’re missing the point of the article, indeed of most of this particular media company’s listicles. Notice that number 14 is “Getting hit by a car,” and behind it at number 15 is “Vodka Redbull.” All the other words and numbers in this article are meaningless set dressing for this set-up and punchline.