I think its a lot more cohesive than it gets credit for, but I mean the film was basically improvised scene to scene.

I may be remembering wrong.

I don't really get Batman Begins. I like cheesy Batman and I like serious Batman but to me Begins was cheesy in the wrong ways (the voice) and serious about the wrong things (like Rachel).

Are you supposed to root for him? I thought the movie was him growing out of being an immature little shit-head.

Pax Americana wasn't as directly connected to Watchmen as I expected before it came out, actually.

In some, not all, ways Leftovers is like a redo of the best parts of Lost without the filler.

I remember watching the main film and just when the story seemed to finally be starting the movie ended.

JG Ballard covered similar themes but, IIRC, never in the context of a nuclear family unit like White Noise.

Do you like Superman but dislike All-Star Superman, or you just don't like Superman in general?

It was less that they liked each other and more that they each had what the other one thought they wanted; 'the grass is always greener' and all that. Dodd wished he could just let loose and be a scoundrel with no responsibilities (hence the whole relationship starting with the really dodgey moonshine). Freddie was…

Ok, point taken about the distinction between premise and narrative.

How is it not a single narrative? A pseudo-intellectual cult leader welcomes a PTSD-suffering scoundrel into his home, family, and church but their relationship falls apart as neither man can change their underlying conflicting natures.

To me its just a case of the play's role and reputation in our culture being mis-matched with its actual content; the play treats their love as immature, not as a beautiful love story made even more romantic by their deaths. Yet the latter is how the story is often retold.

It fails to be an effective rehash of Married with Children because it isn't one, for the exact reason you said.

Why? Isn't internalized misogyny part of the setting and the real issue of rape culture?

Sounds like both versions are rape scenes, this one is just less ambiguous about it.

That's unfortunately true from what I see on the internet, but I don't think it has to be that way. Nor should we judge feminism as a whole based on internet click-bait.

It seems to me that if you consider yourself a feminist and you take the concept of rape culture seriously then it makes no sense at all to say depicting rape culture in fiction or media is misogynistic. Especially when the alternative given is depicting the characters giving into sex that is not really consensual-…

Nothing needs to be rationalized because everything is clear in the episode itself.

Abed's wacky behavior there was pretty much the same as how he acted when the group wanted him to be a more exciting version of himself to impress a girl way back in season one.