I was only able to recognize Dibney and da Costa, that's some pretty great foreshadowing there.

Tom Cavanaugh was bringing his A-game here, WOW. I love how, no matter how evil and messed up he is (or turns out to be) his care for Barry is feeling very genuine. He's certainly a very difficult character to pin down, even if he does eventually become Zoom (and given how heavily they seem to be foreshadowing that,…

The third is when you start getting flashes of intelligence. It doesn't really hit you till episode 7 though, and then episode 8 is a heartbreaker.

Did you only watch the first two episodes? It got way better.

This is the best post I've read on this site in a long time, thank you.

Even so, it could still be metaphoric. I think the fact that it ends with a shot of Sam looking up and smiling rather than down and horrified is significant.

See, I don't think there's enough coders in that scene for me to read it as a fantasy, it's certainly shot like the rest of the film. But that is a very interesting interpretation.

I don't think the existence of the trope is the problem, the problem is it becomes the only option. If a woman is a geek then she must also be helpless and need a stronger character to save her, that's the lesson being taught by these characters being offered with no alternative.

Birdman.

If they conquer the world in the second one, that means Pitch Perfect 3 has to be the intergalactic acapella competition, right?

Haha, glad I could help with that.

That's a very interesting point, and one I like a lot.

In a vacuum, yes, you can find a good excuse for each show on this list. But how does that make the cultural trend less worrying? Just because there is no easy solution or answer to the questions raised, and just because there's no singular problem or entity "at fault", doesn't mean we should ignore it.

I more meant all characters shouldn't fall into the same pattern or cliche as others, that in an ideal piece of writing every character should stand is as singular and unique. Now this is an incredibly high and near impossible standard for a character like Q who gets one scene in a movie, but it's hardly a high…

No worries, I've done it, happens to the best of us.

Bro, I'm on your side, but that kind of lazy joke antagonizing never does anyone good.

The problem with this argument is, ideally, no character should be tropes. But men are hurt less by stereotyped male characters because they have fleshed out characters in Ollie and Coulson in those shows to look up to and represent their gender. Who do women have?

You're upset over two articles, written and pitched by different people? Plus this site has always been fairly liberal leaning anyways. How hilariously insecure you must be.

She barely shows up on that show though.

Most of the season was good, but the finale was eh. I'd still watch it though.