No joke, my first thought when I saw the headline was that something went wrong with their Kinja transition and some placeholder article filled with absurd gibberish got published.

Where are you getting that the Kinja transition is happening tomorrow? I haven't seen anything on the site about it since the "community forum," when they said they'd publish a claim form ahead of the switch.

There's a really good (fleet, comprehensive and funny) nine-minute summary of the precursor shows on YouTube. Search for "ScreenCrush defenders nine minutes." That's all you need. But Jessica Jones and Luke Cage are both great shows in their own right.

So much for their promises in the comments and emails I exchanged with them that I'd be "pleasantly surprised" with how the AVClub content is presented in ways that break with established Kinja conventions…

After reading more from the threads here, my unsolicited thoughts and best guess as to how this shakes out:

Gosh I miss Slings & Arrows.

Am I the only one who feels like VOX Media would have been a better fit for an AV Club purchase? From the design to the underlying technology to how friendly I imagine they would have been to accommodating a different commenting system, it just seems like a better fit. It's not like corporately bundling AVC and The…

I'd be glad to contribute to keep fresh content up on a user-run AVC spinoff site. I haven't worked in a newsroom or in an entertainment mag for a long while now, but I can still produce serviceable content, my paltry only-850-odd-comment-lurker status here notwithstanding.

The irony would be that, for me, the AV Club website was the new GIANT Magazine after that magazine changed its editorial focus…

One thing I haven't seen addressed is whether the AV Club is going to be switching over to a Kinja-style front page. Basically, is this move going to turn this carefully curated and organized site into a blog with a few broad "topic" categories running along the top?

I think it's pretty clear that the AV Club staff doesn't like this, and that they're doing their best to toe the company line while their new corporate caretakers dismantle the things that made the site unique, valuable and interesting to acquire in the first place.

Ugh. The more I think about AVC moving to Kinja, the more distressing it is. Kinja blogs are, well, blogs, and are generally single-topic, broadly written ones, at that. The AV Club is a relatively comprehensive publication that covers several distinct beats through a range of media that all share a single, distinct…

Yes, change is hard. But I've stuck with the AV Club since the days when the website was basically just a repository for the non-regional content in the print edition (edit: yes, I remember that there was some regional content on the site, too) because all of their changes preserved or enhanced some aspect of the…

The dragon fire was absolutely horrific, but I had less than no conflict in my feelings regarding how I wanted the final battle to go. Yes, Jamie is an interesting and often sympathetic character, but Bronn and Jamie and Sam's dad and the rest of their merry men can burn to a crisp. The only reason I had any interest…

Is AV Club moving onto Kinja?

…except that we see at least one scene of the witch from an authoritative point of view, not from the perspective of any of the characters.

I've seen some bad movies in theaters (Batman and Robin, Watchmen, Devil, The Life of David Gale, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Birth, Attack of the Clones, The Village, Stuck On You, Godzilla, Avatar, Inception) but the only movie I was so disappointed in that I actually wanted to walk out was Signs. If I hadn't…

*you win or you dine

I'm not trying to be provocative or anything, but I'd swap out TDKR (which I think just barely sneaks out) for Inception.

I'll be quite glad when he gets back to going smaller. The Dark Knight aside, his bigger films strike me as his weakest.