I don’t know about that. There’s plenty of messy drama in other royal families as well.

It was around 90-97 when the SW love died down by the public, but only just a bit.

Right. It’s hinted pretty heavily in the first episode, is apparently revealed in whichever episode Angela finds the Klan robe, and then… it is exactly what it appears to be.

Joss Whedon wanted Eric Balfour to be in the main credits for the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so that Jesse’s death would come as a real shock. Reportedly they didn’t have the budget for it (though you gotta wonder how expensive making a slightly different edit of the title sequence, using existing foota…

Personally I was disappointed that everything was exactly as it seemed: Yup, Judd and his wife were just evil Klan members.

Daniel Day-Lewis is a famously committed method actor who would often refuse to break character between takes.

His choices seemed subversive for the sake of being subversive

Weird to see Kristofer Hivju in what looks like a bit part after having co-starred in the original.

Oh, that makes more sense than how I read it, that the definitive version of A Christmas Carol was created in The Sims.

Most news organizations take the view that to call something a lie, you must be able to prove that the person knows that what they’re saying is not true. Since it’s hard to definitively prove somebody’s state of mind (and Trump clearly fails to retain a lot of information presented to him), they usually feel bound to…

Jessica Jones going to school with and having a crush on Peter Parker (and the Human Torch) goes back to the original Alias series. It’s part of the flashbacks in the Purple Man arc.

Determinism doesn’t rule out motivation, there’s no reason why it should.

Yes if those things are in service to the story it certainly could. None of what you’re saying is contrary to my explanation.

The problem with your (non)explanation of “it happened because it had to happen, no other reason” is that it could be used to rationalize literally anything, including Doctor Manhattan acting in ways that are completely random, irrational, meaningless. If arbitrary things happen “just because,” there would be no…

That’s how it read to me as well, and regardless of whether that’s how it would actually have been interpreted by an audience in that era, it seemed to be how the show meant it: not an outright outing, though perhaps enough to start (or feed) some suspicions and gossip.

Laurie was always an amoral and ruthless businesswoman. It’s not at all out of character for her to do something illegal that lands her in jail.

I disagree. Even if Manhattan considers himself only “a puppet who can see the strings,” he still acts coherently in sequential time: he responds to events, can hold a conversation, etc. He does not act, or fail to act, arbitrarily with just the excuse that he’s destiny’s plaything: in all cases he acts according to…

Watchmen is just intended as a single season show for now, isn’t it?

Oh fuck off.

Not everything is about money, and just because Alan Moore is rich doesn’t mean he cannot care about other things and have legitimate grievances.