I'm in the vocal minority who actually liked The Last Stand. In fact, I'd boldly say it was actually the most entertaining of the original trilogy. I also differ from most in that I thought the second one was just kinda boring, and am sincerely confused about why my opinion is so disparate from everyone else's. So,…

What's "very nitpicky and borderline inconsequential" about multiple evidences that they changed their plans midstream? I was directly replying to your statement that the writers are smart and thoughtful; I think those points I raised are pretty indicative of a clear pattern of not planning ahead.

How do you know I won't agree? I want to like this show. As long as I'm still watching it, there's absolutely nothing to be gained by thinking it's terrible, so I'd welcome any semi-convincing argument about why it's good. I'm actively in favor of any insight or alternate perspective that would cause me to enjoy…

But those are all just concepts. My beef with the show is not with the conception (though I do think the CW trappings are a little much sometimes), but the execution of it. I agree that it has a good, solid framework in place, but I think the framework is often betrayed by the actual "words on the page."

This may be a lot more simple than anything like that. For all we know, the "creative" differences may have just been that Edgar wanted an extra year to really do it (W)right, which wouldn't be too surprising given how he's already spent way more time developing it than the average movie, and they decided they needed…

Enjoy your corporate product.

Feige wants that nice consistent sheen of Marvel Mediocrity across all their properties.

Okay, so what were you referring to? Whether you believe it or not, I am genuinely curious about why people like this show so much.

I was they would've put a minifig on the deck. Without that, it's really hard to judge scale, and therefore difficult to appreciate how massive it's described as being.

So, let's recap. Xavier isn't a leader or a visionary, Magneto is more together than Xavier, Kitty Pryde has magical new time-travel powers, Beast is now a furry, blue Hulk, and all the present-day X-Men are getting killed (presumably after very little screen-time). This may be a great movie in a vacuum, but I just…

The notion of having a favorite letter has never even crossed my mind. If I was playing Wheel of Fortune or Hangman, I might pick the first letter of my name early on, but that's only because it happens to be a statistically frequent letter (it's one of the RSTLNE group).

I can only hope so far because the writers have been very thoughtful and smart with their writing...

Arrow literally had a stable of encouraging voices to help him stay on target and not slip, while Superman had only the amazingly contradicting teachings of his adoptive father and computer representations of his real father.

Connecticutians can hold their heads high,

I don't think geeks believe that the average person wants a Firefly reunion, I think the geeks just want it for themselves without concern for whether the average person wants it or not.

There are so many little things that are pointing to this possibly being an almost direct adaptation of Dark Knight Returns. As one of the small but proud group of die-hard comic geeks who don't drink the Frank Miller kool-aid, that doesn't excite me at all.

I think the title is self-evident, because all reality shows suck.

Despite the fact that this season's strong finish has increased my faith in the showrunners, I'll lose a moderate amount of faith if they do make Ward a good guy. As your post points out, the sheer number of people that would have to be LMD's for him to have been a triple-agent is astronomical, and if he was really…

I know, I know; we're all tired of the damnable cronut by now. You're tired of hearing about it, I'm tired of hearing about it, your grandmother who only watches Brian Williams ("he seems like such a nice young man!") is tired of hearing about it.

So shouldn't they have taken that into account when they decided to go with the rebreather? After all the well-deserved flack from Christian Bale's utterly absurd Bat-growl in The Dark Knight, you'd think Nolan would've been more sensitive about his main characters' voices.