Blue sunlight, gray air, so little oxygen the characters have to pause for air. Thank God you don't have to breathe to kick ass.

Trying to explain this stuff to an AVClub reviewer is pissing in the wind. It's like pointing out one really important difference between the prequels and the Star Wars trilogy is the prequel doesn't have Luke Skywalker/Mark Hamill. The obvious is just impossible to take in, because there's something wrong with the…

The narrative arc of the The Matrix isn't about dystopia, the narrative arc is about apotheosis. The dude comes back to life at the end, complete with triumphant orchestra. On the other hand, the least possible time the movie could get away is devoted to "Thomas Anderson." Misrepresenting this would be an egregious…

I can't say that I have your eye.

Have to strongly disagree with your #1. Draper is visibly suffering and we are supposed to feel every pang.

Must disagree, see no compassion for the survivors in covering up the murder. Also, see helzapoppin post below. The show insists that government/politics/idealism is BS and they'll write nonsense to "show" it. Thus, there's no hope for justice from official sources, it'll take a Fred Johnson, a strong man who can do…

The widow doesn't agree with you, nor does the show itself. Personally I think your position about one surviving because of Holden is perfectly rational but I disagree that's what's on screen.

What other people? The only other people who might be jeopardized by publicizing the massacre would have been the perpetrators. Also, the real danger, as we've already seen, is the danger of being ignored. He had already tried to report the murders. I guess there's a kind of fear of confessing to be a survivor because…

The show clearly intends for us to validate Meng for the purity of his dedication to his daughter. Thus we are to excuse his cowardice in lying in his message of condolence, especially since it wasn't actually delivered. It would be a perverse misreading to see his open contempt for Holden as anything but a shout out…

What happens in the story is what the series shows us. But what the dialogue says is what the series tells us. "Show" trumps "Tell," every time. The series doesn't show Barry getting together with Iris till Wally's there to be the brother. I suppose your next thought will be, but Iris was with Eddie Thawne! At this…

The show doesn't really agree with you. It says the same words (in effect, not literally) but what the show *did* was wait til Wally was the brother before actually slashing Barry and Iris. And I still say the weirdest thing of all is that Joe favors the sons but Iris doesn't even notice, much less feel it.

The problem then is how the same people screwed up so badly in Iron First after being so fantastically able all those other times? Or to put it another way, you are saying Stick was actually good stuff in DD. Why wouldn't it be in Iron Fist?

You mean there was actually a *good* reason for the dude to quit mind controlling Jessica Jones but to throw her a client who he then mind controlled to death? And as I understood from later reviews to mind control her neighbor instead of Jones herself too? I missed out on a well-motivated villain plot?

Didn't think the first Daredevil was very very watchable. I quit on Jessica Jones at the end of the first episode when I was totally convinced that the villain was supposed to be letting her run free because he wanted to control her, her, her and only her, a ploy that makes even less sense than the moldy oldie about…

Stargate SG-!: First five years on Showtime, then another seven on Syfy. Did it move up, down or just sideways?

Liked the movie well enough to try to catch an episode of the movie. (If I remember correctly, there was some dialogue between Luke Perry and David Arquette that alone was worth the price of admission, on the grounds it was so bizarre you were fascinated.) Saw an episode about frat boys sacrificing virgins to some…

They really don't know what to do with Cisco. They can't even allow him to plan to take Iris to another Earth rather than meet the appointment with Savitar.

Caught me being uncommonly ignorant!

A men's rights petition against this post has been circulating. It's already been signed by George Eliot, George Sand, Andre Norton, Currer Bell, Acton Bell, Ellis Bell, JD Robb, Isak Dinesen, Robert Galbraith, James Tiptree, AM Barnard and Vernon Lee.

Miller/Nolan/Goyer/Snyder (they do all blend together, like it or not) have their Batman, who isn't my favorite superhero any more. A cool car isn't going to change that. Do cool cars really get men laid?