New AVC writers really don't seem to care for blockbusters. No Pacific Rim, no Gravity, no Iron Man Three or Hunger Games, or etc…. I'm not saying they 'deserved' to be on the list or anything, but for a year with as many excellent blockbusters as this one had, their complete absence is notable. Hell, Gravity only…

I don't think it's all that surprising, really. A lot of young people feel betrayed by older generations - who stole opportunities from them left and right and called them lazy for being unable to stop it - by capitalism, by education, etc… but a lot of public mechanisms deify Boomers and capitalism-above-all-else,…

I must have imagined all those scenes of Superman throwing them into buildings. Sorry. My mistake.

Here's the thing: You can't realistically make the argument that killing is 'the thing that he loathes the most', because that isn't in the movie. That's from the comics. In the movie, he has faced precisely one threat, and he killed him after a few minutes. So far, his stance on killing is somewhere between "first…

Yeah, nothing this year (for consoles at least) could touch Dark Souls, which will probably continue to go down as the best game for this last generation of consoles, hands down.

A huge part of the problem with the death of Zod, however, comes from the 45-50 minutes that come before it. Superman levels two cities, with a death toll estimated in the hundreds of thousands without a care in the world or an instant - but saving that nice bland family is what finally drove him 'over the edge'.

Counterpoint: The first Captain America film was excellent in its character work, and its only really lackluster feature was in the pacing and execution of a few of its action set pieces.

I'm glad I'm finally able to drop this and have it be relevant: Zebraman 2: Assault on Zebra City did it better!

If only Hostages could run a few more seasons with Sonia at the helm here, we could have a true follow-up to the greatest AV Club reviews of them all: the final seasons of Heroes.

But I don't regret dropping Swamp Thing before Rotworld at all. It's all about timing.

The best X-Men movie by a landslide, though one with a huge number of problems.

That's totally true, but I also don't particularly see it mattering too much. That's true of basically every area, after all - the loudest voices tend to get the most attention, and are often (though not always) the smartest. So engaging with social justice is like engaging with any sort of hot-button issue,…

If I was Sir Mix-A-Lot, I might say, "MY RHYME IS THIGH."

If I wanted to escape the housing market crash, I'd recommend that no one buy unless they can say, "MY PRIME IS HIGH."

If I was a hated street performer with stage fright, you might say, "MY MIME IS SHY."

If I was an herb merchant awaiting a delivery, I could say, "MY THYME IS NIGH."

I didn't so much take offense to it as I was completely and utterly baffled by it as a mindset. "People who frequently speak about social justice don't really care about social justice," makes roughly as much sense as those old gags like, "Only the messiah would deny that he is the messiah." It makes no logical…

Supposedly, Fuller has planned for the show to run 7 friggin' seasons, tying in all the Hannibal books they have the rights to, so he presumably already knowing what the major season arcs will be.

MY TIME IS NIGH.

Indeed. You're either Mother Teresa or you're a concerntroll trying to score Justice Points for your fictional avatar.