Bronastein going lesbian chic was kind of pandery, I felt. Also, they appeared to be planning to Bronastein Justine (didn't catch her name in the show, but the comments below call her that.) Which would mean Bronastein has plans for Victor except she doesn't. Also, apparently the world domination plan has been…

It seems to me that the resolution of the episode has everything to do with what Morland will do as head of the "group." That is, on the outcome of the serial element newly introduced. Which we naturally don't see, this just being one chapter in the serial story of Morland Napoleon of Crime versus (?) Sherlock Holmes.…

Revising the Penguin and the Catwoman had its rewards but the success of Batman Returns is mixed.

Getting Zemo to give up the code words, then keeping him in prison should do the trick.

That isn't true. If they cleaned up "Black Widow" so that she actually had some sort of coherent character, she wouldn't be the comic book Black Widow any more, even if she was actually interesting. Alternatively you could put Black Widow into a plot that deconstructs the absurd mish mash of Cold War cliches and kick…

Or talking about how they would prefer Wonder Woman, who is actually interesting, as opposed to Black Widow?

I don't think Clare was obscure in the nineteenth century, but the show isn't very tightly anchored in history, just fashion and decor. So you may be right.

But she has red hair. She's obviously playing Lucille Ball!

It may be storytelling logic, but not personally believing that you really have to bury your old life to start a new phase, in this case illogic suits me. The logic is too much like thinking you can't just divorce the old spouse before you get a new one, they have to be dead.

How dully literal! The Black Panther costume is definitely black panthery, and Iron Man has hard strong armor just as the word "iron" implies. The Black Widow is not black widowy.

They tend to favor first names, not just for BW but all of them. But yes, I think they did use Black Widow a couple times. If I recall the end credits correctly, they had the an hourglass symbol under Johanssens's name.

Except for those of us who don't like James Bond.

I was shocked to read a review that really said it was hard to figure out why Steve Rogers was so committed to Bucky. I don't know how you break down the amounts of motivation between personal friendship and saving all that's left of his old life. But we don't have to, to know how important Bucky would be to Steve…

It takes a remarkable mind to suggest I may be mistaken about how convincing I found her fight scenes (especially in Civil War.) After all, conviction is a feeling. Your ability to perceive my feelings better than I do really deserves a greater forum than AV Club though.

Haven't seen Salt. It looked silly in the previews. And as an original character there was no nostalgic appeal, unlike comic book movies. But then I find most comic book movies about characters I didn't read as a kid to be kind of foolish and unsatisfying, even stuff like History of Violence and Road to Perdition. I…

The black widow is a spider who mates and kills. The comic book Black Widow was a Soviet spy.

"Star Spangled Man" over a USO tour montage was not predicted I think. The claim that it is needs to be documented.

The usual pattern holds. The first movie is best, and the third is worst. But this is relative and unlike a lot of thirds, this one was largely watchable. The plot is fueled by Robert Downey Jr. being an ass but this is so plausible it works for me. (Except for the bizarre notion that a dead king is a tragedy.) Black…

I think that's a yes.

"Leonard Snart, robber of ATMs" was so much more fun than it should have been.