Well said. I think everyone should examine why they are so outraged at this scene but no one has mentioned how bad it is in the books. I think it’s because it happened in the books to a character no one gives a fig about (sorry for the strong language there :P). Yet, because it happened to Sansa, a character that’s…

Call out shitty or lazy writing where you see/read it, sure. But to imply that because people have fucked up in the past that all future writers should just bail on the idea is, at best, terrible advice.

Absolutely not, and besides you know your characters best. In fact, any violence (sexual or otherwise) works best in a story when people don’t expect it. Having him threaten it likely helped increase the tension and stakes for the character.

I’ll just say that I think any writing advice that starts with “Don’t…

Interesting, yet you don’t seem to feel the same way about other forms of violence? Because that’s what rape scenes are.

I am assuming this was written with the Game of Thrones controversy in the back (possibly the forefront?) of your mind. So, allow me to use that as an example of what I mean. Fair warning, spoilers…

I don’t see how? I mean I think the Laurel character has always been an albatross around the show’s neck. So the time devoted to her arc did feel like time wasted. But I think they did an incredible job in setting up the Arrow to be at the height of “success” and then systematically lose it all.

Though, I didn’t hate…

The “rub” of the comic book live action star....they want everyone to see their faces, we just want a passable goddamn mask.

Just read he’ll still be a series regular in The Hollywood Reporter. My bet is with the way the finale played out tonight, he’ll just be there.

The beauty of comic-book stories, you can ret-con anything.

I think the third season was really good (I don’t care about the shipping nonsense, but as a viewer I “bought” the love story). It was essentially showing the Arrow going from the height of “success” to losing everything. It takes a lot of courage for writers to blow up their show, and the stories are almost always…

And CW and CBS are, like, “related” aren’t they? The local stations in my town are, our local CBS folks do stuff on both networks....

What is better or easier than “I want that, so lemme steal it in seconds?” Nothing.

I fail to see how my response to this article was a judgment. And the fact remains that the majority of people using Bit Torrent are doing so in order to pirate copyrighted material. Of course it has other uses, as do most things, but so did Napster, LimeWire, and Kazaa. And I didn’t say that the service should be…

How about you don’t promote free software that allows people to steal others’ creative work?

LOL at convention of earplug testers.

That would have worked if you hadn’t stopped him.

That was a theme that all of the first-film characters had to consider, save possibly for Hawkeye. The others just weren’t so explicit with it.

Well noticed! And while I don’t think it counts, they did a whole thing about how fucked up the Red Room was in the Agent Carter series, which was basically a proper First Avenger “sequel.”

Your reading of the Black Widow backstory is deeply-flawed in my opinion, and ironically, denies the character agency, implying that her scenes exist only to further the male characters’ character arcs. (Though I agree the merchandising thing is utter horseshit.)

Well Frank Miller also said it was because she was the only being that could take that Super-loving.

His Powers Are Amazing, But Not As Amazing As His Simple and Stylish Disguise!