Actually, that sounds like a runaway hit! ...Why isn’t he working on the new Independence Day film? That seems more his speed. You can blow up as many cities as you want. The bigger the destruction the better!

Usually that character growth is part of the heroes origin. Which plays out in their origin story. In other words, in the first film. Snyder shouldn’t be taking us on that growth, he should have taken us on it. By the end of Man of Steel, we don’t see how he’s grown into that. The character arc to show him becoming…

What’s weird is that he’s bigger than her, yet... not. They’re about the same height in this picture which is odd enough. I don’t watch Supergirl, so maybe she’s just tall. So in some ways, Barry isn’t larger than her... but it looks like his picture was taken with the camera very close, for a heavy foreshortening…

I say this as a science fiction writer who hopes to one day be published: Suspension of disbelief is my job, not the reader’s. I can’t demand they suspend their disbelief, it’s my job to make them want to, with a good story, interesting concept, compelling characters, whatever.

That also means not running my mouth on…

That’s kind of exactly why one should be unfair! Some scientific errors aren’t big deals, even if they bug scientists. If the stars are wrong in Titanic, it’s not a huge issue. Genre fiction really needs to start doing better with evolution though, so that people actually learn it. Or at least learn the very, very…

Freud’s main contribution to psychology was the ending of the field of introspection, and thus ending the idea that you can study the mind by studying one’s own thoughts. Obviously that idea is completely incompatible with the idea of a subconscious. Good thing to, because no one would have gotten anywhere with that…

Maybe give it a few more episodes. Or maybe you just don’t like it, that’s cool. I actually didn’t care overly for the pilot. What really becomes apparent over time is just how shockingly cynical it is. I know that doesn’t sound like saying much, tons of shows are cynical, but usually for a quick laugh. For Rick and…

Nope, sorry. I say this as a graduate student in psychology. I’ve studied his work, and it’s lacking. Defense mechanisms are probably the best thing he has, because I will give Freud one thing: he was a fantastic observer. He had the observational skill of Sherlock Holmes. Such a shame he had the deductive power of a…

I think that’s just a typo and he meant to say “isn’t.”

I can also back up that Freud’s work is pseudo-science at best. The problem with this is that when you try to say “Ah, the film is doing this because of this psychoanalytic principle that was at play with the filmmakers” or “This psychoanalytic thing evokes this…

Actually your later point, that the Darhk plotline stagnated, is sort of what I meant by Arrow suffering from the setup. Anything to do with Darhk got put on the backburner while Arrow spent almost half a season bringing Sara and, to a much smaller degree, Ray back, and they seemed to have trouble getting that…

Everyone being treated equally is great! But it takes some work. There’s not a lot of lesbian characters out there, and a lot of them wind up dead. Essentially there’s already a massive inequality there, so handling lesbian characters the same as others isn’t equal treatment. Put it another way, if Joss Whedon had…

Y’know, now that you mention it, he did look really uncomfortable about the whole thing too. And that was before he knew. Or it better have been.

I’m going to say it’s doubtful. If we assume that lower energy lightwaves means a cooler saber, it means the Sith are using the coldest lightsabers. Also it would mean Luke downgraded to a cooler saber in Return of the Jedi, which would be an odd move to make. Finally Obi-Wan’s saber in A New Hope is blue, but isn’t…

I am... legitimately baffled by what this data is supposed to actually say. Droid characters get about as much screen time as in A New Hope, and interact with the same types of people. That shouldn’t be surprising. The fact that the droids fill the same roll is hardly demonstrating the film is a copy. You would expect…

None of those things is necessarily good. Many could, have, and will argue that DC’s comics (hell, everyone’s comics) got to be too dark and miserable. Maybe you like the darker comics. That’s fine, I won’t argue it, that’s a perfectly reasonable opinion. However, it’s perfectly valid for other people not to like the…

You have a very good point. Of course, that would mean they planned for Sara to appear dead, not be dead, die, then come back to life. Which... may not have been the best plan. (I’m surprised Quinton Lance’s head hasn’t exploded, to be honest.)

And Arrow season 3 did, indeed, suck without her. And, to echo an above…

I believe that. But unless you know a lot of furries for some reason, your sample size is going to be pretty small. “Everyone in group X is Y because everyone in group X I know is Y” is an old, old argument, used to defend just about every stereotype that has ever been. I don’t doubt your personal experience, but it’s…

Sara is kind of a weird case, because she gets to expand into slightly new territories. They didn’t kill a lesbian with her, they killed a bisexual woman! Whose only on-screen relationship was with a man. We know she and Nyssa were together, but we never actually see them together.

Of course, the fact that we actually…

I don’t think anyone thinks Whedon has anything against gay people. We all know that he kills anyone and everyone. And, after tallying up every major character death on his shows I could remember (It was a long list...) it seemed... almost gender neutral. He skews a little towards killing female characters, but not as…