This series adjusts the intelligence levels of its characters based on the dictates of plotting, instead of letting their personalities and smarts determine the path of the narrative.

I think you mean “downright restrained” compared to the tickle porn plot.

Sure, that’s a perfectly defendable position. On the other hand, nobody’s entitled to have a TV show, and there’s a lot of actors out there who didn’t spend their late 20s doing “hurr durr rape joke wife beating ain’t I a stinker” bits on the internet. Seriously, the man was 30 when he posted his “secret boob viewing”…

You might consider googling “Hartley Sawyer tweets” because “Al Sharpton is untouchable” is a wildly inaccurate description of what people were offended by. I don’t know that he should have been fired for a bunch of edgelord misogynist “jokes” from 2009-2014, but let’s not pretend they weren’t that. 

That smells a lot like For Life has been quietly canceled behind the scenes, and they’re just waiting for a good time to announce it.

The year after House of M was a double-crossover summer, with the cosmics hanging out in Annihilation, which I thought was pretty good, and the domestics doing Civil War, which....well, it was vastly superior to Civil War II?

I’d also like to point out that Norm absolutely does not tell Vision that Wanda is doing this. He only says that “she” is in his head.

As much as Mark Pedowitz is paid to pretend he decides things, the CW’s just a distributor. Decisions about renewals happen at WB or CBS, depending on the production company. Swamp Thing was canceled back in June 2019, CW was just airing reruns.

Season 1 is rough, grim, and a bit on the boring side. Season 2 is an excellent course-correction toward FUN, and by season 3 it’s completely bonkers.

I watched the first three episodes of Nancy Drew s1, and it didn’t work for me. Did it improve and find its stride, or is it just not for me?

And worse, using it as the launch point turned The Most X-Men Event Ever (the villain is an Xavier-Magneto hybrid) into The Event Where the X-Men Get Sidelined (the villain can literally only be defeated by non-mutants, thus the stars of the event sit back and watch the climax happen).

God, it was so distractingly weird. They could have had me, a 40 year old man, read it and it wouldn’t have sounded any less like Ruby Rose. At least when Grey’s Anatomy dealt with an “oops a star quit, here’s some letters to explain where he went” they got a good enough voice match that there was some debate over…

If they couldn’t even convince/weren’t willing to ask Ruby Rose to record the voiceover for the letter to Sophie, I don’t see her coming back for a full guest spot in the future.

Well, JLaw spent her early 20s flipping between playing a 16-year-old in the Hunger Games, and playing characters that should be pushing 40 in a string of David O. Russell films. Now that she’s 30, she’s probably too old for either.

One chapter out of 8, anyway.

I’m gonna go way, way, way out on a limb and suggest that the dead character suddenly being alive might be a central plot point in this show about two characters trapped in some sort of sitcom fantasy neighborhood.

I’m suggesting ajvia’s analogy was bad, and I was posing a more accurate one.

Well, let’s be fair...“lots of” anybody isn’t being kidnapped. Of the 3277 missing persons over the last 3 years, only 75 were never found. Of the 42 found dead, only 7 were homicides. The whole state only sees 20-40 homicides a year. Are whites “much more” likely to go missing in nominal terms? Eh...less than twice…

No, it’s like if The Wire was about a bunch of all-white gangs hustling drugs on the mean streets of Baltimore.

Her career is certainly much larger post-Glee, but she’d done a metric tonne of work before that I have to assume she was at least a “oh, hey, it’s that lady” for most people by the mid-2000s.