Totally disagree, not every show needs to have a person to root for, in fact some of the best shows have terrible people on all sides. The Sopranos’, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Shield. You could argue GOT was at it’s best when there weren’t good guys and bad guys, but a bunch of squabbling power hungry families.

All of the people saying that the competition needs to just “make better movies” just feeds into the false narrative that capitalism is somehow a meritocracy that rewards only the best, and ignores or excuses Disney’s blatant monopolistic practices that are specifically designed to eliminate competition, not through…

Whenever the comments on io9 overwhelmingly don’t like a show that isn’t even out yet, I know I’ll probably like it.  I’ll give it a shot.

You have far too much faith in humanity chum. The average fella given powers would have about a week before he started crossing serious ethical lines, and in a short period you’d have a full monster on your hands.

99% of people who got super powers would turn to evil.

Yes, right now, I am. Here in the hellpit that is America, where I am, the country is slowly but steadily being transformed into a fascist, anti-environmental, white-supremacist theocracy. We have children dying in concentration camps, civil rights being obliterated for anyone but straight, white males, and a…

Okay. I’m not calling the Americans dicks for scoring too many goals. I’m also not criticizing the players who scored their first ever world cup goal.

No one cares about goal differential. Score 1000 goals, but at some point you should probably run back and act like you have been there before. Instead of celebrating scoring vs people who started playing yesterday. 

Ah there it is! The “dudes criticizing women” take. Women should be built up, not torn down, right?

Can you fucking read? Are you illiterate? He just said the issue wasn’t scoring too much, it was the dumb celebrations. It couldn’t have been more clear.

Stop with your straw man bullshit. This isn’t about scoring goals. Its about having an on-field orgasm after scoring the 9th 10th 11th 12th etc.

Not sure why you keep ignoring the point that no one has a problem with the goals.  It’s the celebrations after that people think were in poor taste.

The whole point

Germany had all but stopped celebrating by the 7th goal. That’s the point.

Yeah, this is about where I fall. Women’s soccer is still developing as a global sport. The difference in resources and just the amount of time different countries have been focusing on the women’s game varies so widely, it’s absolutely unavoidable that there will be games like this.

Nobody’s calling the American’s dicks because they scored too much.

Hey, glad they won! I’m not opposed to running up the score because goal differential is the first tie breaker and if they let up at 6-0, there’s no reason to think Sweden wouldn’t try and win 7-0.

Nah. Having a pay gripe does not excuse needless celebrations when you’re up by nine goals.

While I agree that the commentary was a little dramatic from the Canadian Broadcast Team, the USWNT celebrations were a bit much, They are the dominate force in the game and should display a little more class than that especially when playing against a far inferior team that was just happy to be there for the first…

I’m okay with them scoring a pile of goals. Celebrating those goals with more than a fist bump after about 5-0 just means you’re a bit of a dick.