Reverse-Flash and Professor Zoom are the same guy.

If we're basing it off Gail Simone's own definition of fridging, then yes, it doesn't matter if the heroine in question was her own character. Depowering/killing strong female characters counts as fridging. So that time Power Girl got depowered? Fridged. Babs Gordon? Fridged as Batgirl. We're just lucky someone…

I get a lot of anxiety when I don't have body language cues to read...

yeah pretty much saw that plot twist a mile away. Looks like Kuvira's just capital E-evil.

Coppola's Dracula was savaged by critics when it first came out. This was pre-Internet, mind you. All of its positive reviews seem to have come in long after the fact, when the film had already developed a cult following.

To be fair to newer editions of D&D, they have systems in place for when you receive damage that's more than 50% of your total HP, you save against death. That's to simulate killer blows like you describe.

GamerGate part II: Electric Boogaloo, obvi.

It's not so much gaming under fire, it's the particular game that they feel is under fire: Dark Souls. I've noted before that their fans tend to be waaay too passionate about the game, and at the same time really smug about it. Probably comes with having to finish a really hard game that allegedly rewards skill and…

If a 50-ton giant is swinging a house-sized club at my face, the only credible options are run, or pray to whatever gods you worship. A standing jump doesn't really cover much distance, even if you tack on a roll at the end. Try it now: from a standing position leap to one side with all your might.

He points out from a mechanic standpoint that designers end up tweaking attack hits anyway and slowing them down, just to make the dodge roll look credible. So if they're making the combat sluggish just so you can have a frickin' dodge roll, why not put in a sidestep instead?

But it is. Even if you have spellcasting and demons, the Dark Souls games — hell, any sword and sorcery RPG for that matter — aim for verisimilitude with the melee combat. What the video is saying, is that the beloved combat roll is clearly impractical in a combat scenario.

Not even Asian martial arts teach rolling as a dodge maneuver. Aikido and judo teach rolling, but only as defense from getting your back broken when your opponent throws you. Otherwise, you're taught to sidestep the blow.

Nah, Kill Bill was definitely every kung fu and wuxia movie ripped off and rolled into a ball.

Except Coulson is clearly pushing Talbot's buttons, in order to get plan B. This leads to the assumption that they were never hoping for a plan A to begin with.

He should've been in that cold open, so that someone could translate "balls" to German for Jim Morita.

Sorry, but Gotham totally lost me in its first 10 minutes. In that short time span, it's committed nearly every major prequel sin, you might as well toss in a Jamaican-accented alien frog while you're at it.

NO. No redemption for Ward, unless he earns it over the course of a multi-episode story arc, ending in a sacrifice play. He's killed way too many people for a simple reveal to just make everything ok.

Minus points for mislabelling a Batman Gambit as a Xanatos Gambit.

That's not really classified as a Xanatos Gambit. The gambit anticipates different outcomes, and some form of success for all the outcomes.

They weren't held back. I am pretty sure they would've kept plodding on. Interviews have confirmed that they only retooled after they saw the early screening of Winter Soldier.