Somehow we have apparently lost the will of possibility to tell stories of people coming to terms with their gender that do not follow a very strict and very outspoken textbook narrative. No subtleties or symbolisms in that area, please.

I’m a bit more concerned about Lady Sybil as a bad ass vigilante. That’s just bizarre and has nothing to do with the subtle and interesting portrayal from the books.

And even though I missed it one comment out of dozens doesn’t support the idea there’s a whole segment of fandom like this.

I’m guessing you didn’t read the comments:

People have literally said that right here on io9 since day one of the announcement that Miller would be playing the Flash in the movies, so I’m not sure how you missed it. Check through the comments here: https://io9.gizmodo.com/wb-announces-a-ton-of-new-dc-movies-including-whos-pla-1646664939

Having looked up when the original books were published (most were published in the 1920s), I’m wondering if this was an attempt to cash in on the IP before substantially all of the books go into the public domain.

But seeing Baby Yoda and the Punisher-as-Trump on shirts side by side at a political rally highlights how Disney’s consistently chosen not to pay attention to instances in which its intellectual property is illegally marketed to people with the express purpose of expressing political rhetoric that reads as draconian.

Yes, sorry.

Did anyone else enjoy the two episodes of The Outsiders on HBO this weekend?

The episode has faced considerable criticism for other elements of its World War II scenes, most notably the fact that the Master—now played by Sacha Dhawan—openly collaborates with Nazi forces in the episode to hunt the Doctor down, embedding himself as an SS Officer.

Folks, I promise that these guys aren’t my sock puppets that I’m cynically using to make a point!

Ah yes, who can forget the box office smash Cat Woman?  Making a film about a Batman villain is just a license to print money really.

Harrison Ford doesn’t need money though.

No, we definitely “officially” can’t say that. Rogue One, RotJ, and RotS were all better than ANH.

Would you accept giraffes doing high dives?

Thanks for proving my point.

I’m feeling good about getting my Chipotle burritos wrapped in foil as Nature and God intended.

There’s a very real trend toward pathologizing all male heterosexual desire. You can see it in the comment sections of any even marginally left-leaning website (including io9) where some (presumed) male commenter makes the mistake of remarking on the attractiveness or sexual desirability of a female public figure,…

Sorry for the second reply, but I have an additional quote on the subject from Kennedy, this time from October 2015:

Yennefer’s transformation is just one of several media performances wherein a disabled person is magically cured to promote the idea that normality equals physically abled. Earlier this year, in the DC superhero feature Shazam, physically disabled character Freddie Freeman (played by able-bodied actor Jack Dylan…