I read this write-up and the original article linked above, and I still have no idea what this guy is accused of having done.

Thanks-I was 90% sure I’d learned about her from an AV Club article (and that the article and/or comments speculated that her story would make a good movie), so I was surprised it wasn’t linked above.

I’m still partial to “Beyond Good and Evil”  the “should have been the series finale” 4-part crossover from the X-Men animated series of the 1990s. Apocalypse masterminds a plot that incorporates Magneto, Mr. Sinister, Sabretooth and Mystique (as you can see from the screen shot, not all of them stay allied for long).…

Yeah, for real world examples, it’s hard to top Hitler/Mussolini/Tojo (especially if you also throw in Stalin before his face turn after Hitler invades the USSR).
I’d make a case, however, for the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 carving up Africa among the various western powers.

I stopped watching Power Rangers as a kid sometime after the first movie and Season 2 (I basically “grew up” from my Power Rangers/TMNT phase to my X-Men/BTAS/Comics phase). I’ve been vaguely aware of the many other incarnations over the years but passed them off as targeted too young for me to watch (and my kids…

I just said this in another thread on io9, but I walked away hating the ending, though I don’t think it’s “bad” in any objective sense. I kind of hope they change it, but won’t blame them if they keep it (I will, however, get mad all over again once I watch it go down).

I do think there are cultural and generational differences about what types of physical contact are appropriate and innocent, and some people who genuinely are “touchy-feely” without ill motivations. However, I also think that there are some people who purposely use those cultural/age differences to get away with…

While the “public figure” thing generally has some truth, Knox and others have written a lot about how she’s really had no choice in the matter, because:
1. Her parents went millions of dollars into debt to pay for her legal fights, so she basically had to sell her story and do media appearances just to keep her whole…

Yeah, she has a long twitter thread up about the movie, in which she completely spoils the ending (which I don’t blame her for at all, but I’ll put up a big SPOILER WARNING in case people want to see the film and not know).

Apparently, in the movie, the “Knox” character ends up being an accessory to the murder after…

Since I’ve watched way too many Law & Orders, I will say that they often (though definitely not always) name drop the real-life person in those “ripped from the headlines” episodes. It’s almost always limited to one comment made in passing - something like: “be careful, detectives, we don’t want another Tucker…

The Thanos scenes always stood out to me as the worst parts of the first GotG (I otherwise enjoyed that movie and its sequel very much). He came off as a very stereotypical “Big Bad” (not much different than Darkseid in the Justice League Snyder Cut) with none of the great nuance that later writers and Brolin brought…

I finally got around to watching Rick & Morty earlier this year and became a fan (at its best, I think it is pretty great), but I’d agree that it is much more of a niche/underground thing than Simpsons, which -cliche aside- really was a cultural phenomenon (and I am old enough to have watched Simpsons pretty much from…

Finally saw Birds of Prey on cable (fun movie; not great but good), and one of the things I like about it is that it acknowledges that Harley is a trained psychologist (she mentions her Ph.D. in a brief voiceover/intro scene), and it actually incorporates that into her character; it’s not a major plot point or…

This is the only version I can think of that portrays him as a fighter. I didn’t watch this show but caught a clip years back, and wasn’t a fan of the fighter aspect or general character design, though it is an interesting alternate take on the Joker. The fact that I found it so jarring, though, kind of proves your…

I find it interesting that people seem to take Joker’s “do I look like a man who has a plan” line sincerely. He’s lying, just like he lies to everyone throughout the movie to accomplish his goals. He’s clearly the biggest planner in the movie, even more so than Batman, who’s mostly forced to react throughout the…

I agree-the fact that the passengers/prisoners’ decisions not to blow each other up doesn’t match our expectations about Gothamites is the point of the scene and in many ways the climax of the film. Joker is all about pushing people in order to reveal their dark side or willingness to do horrible things (like him),…

I finally got around to watching the final few episodes (I’d drifted in and out the last few seasons and never bothered to revisit the show after it ended), and you’re right, the finale is really well done. My second favorite part is Meredith’s son being the dancer for the bachelorette party, which is a great callback…

One of the problems with long-running sitcoms is that the characters start to become caricatures of themselves, boiled down to their most distinctive trait. You see it in The Office - Michael becomes more and more inept, Dwight more bizarre, etc. I think the Office also illustrates a corollary of this trend: if these…

I finally got around to watching Joker the other day, and I thought it was pretty interesting for what it was trying to do, even if what it was doing wasn’t super original by this point. However

I thought you were joking but decided to try it out, and you’re right!