The comparison to Zsasz is a reach, when your already have the answer. This kind of body-mod is an ancient tradition in many cultures. It strikes me as problematic at best to your own association of it with a single very modern character whose practice is not only different in almost all respects, but is meant as a…

>>>Quick side-bar: I have have friends/family and have spent time in England, France, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark, and regularly read a small sampling of European press (Suddeutche Zeitung, The Economist, The Guardian, BBC).So for an American, I’m pretty up to speed on Europe- maybe even as up to speed as the average…

Yeah, I know how long the Soviet empire lasted. I was in Berlin in ‘89, and again in ‘94 (and less relevantly in 2014).

PLEASE let it be option 4: none of the above.

Even if she wasn’t acting directly under cover, if she was instrumental in bringing down the Soviet state, they would have covered any trace of that as they fell. And if she was only visibly active there, it’s plausible that they might be successful.

I think that similiar to how they had Wonder Woman come in at the very end of WWI, implying that her intervention was a fulcrum of history, they simply want to put her at the end of the Soviet’s bloody, soul-crushingly repressive regime. True that by then it wasn’t nearly as bloody, but it was still monstrously…

Yes, the Soviet were a totalitarian regime and committed atrocities. But the Americans where not that much better

It does kind of bother me that they didn’t even bother to use a mo-cap suit to have him on set with the other actors

Wow, good likeness! Who is it? Also really looks like a very young Summer Glau.

Well, that’s not what’s shown here, but okay.

Space junk is just worrisome all over, and I’ve never heard a good plan for dealing with it. Le sigh.

I believe the original pitch was much more direct “two-fisted cop in a hard luck town,” meant to show a young Gordon navigating crime so bad that it would eventually require Batman.

I was just thinking the other day that I would have liked to see Chewie showing more silver in his coat in TFA. Yeah, they’re long lived, but wasn’t he already an important adult in the prequels, 80 years ago at this point?

No one suggested we “ought” to have war in space. No one’s cheerleading for war.

With respect for Araújo, whose work I really like, for anyone half as familiar with medieval Europe as with Star Wars these kinds of things are always rendered silly by superficial knowledge of the source material. Off the top of this amatuer medievalist’s head:

“Have fun stormin’ da Death Stah!”

Yeah, his phrasing there was just fucking nuts. Really, Kev? No one could want more than what you’re gonna do!?!?

You don’t seem to want to fight any fight. You just want to go watch movies and be done with it. That’s fine. Do that. But other people are trying to move the discourse forward while you chide them for not treating Hollywood like it’s a puppy.

If you go from 20/100 to 35/100, that is still generally considered failing the test. That’s essentially where Hollywood lives right now.

Of course it differs person to person.