i think it's just that a TV show can stretch its mistakes out over a much longer period of time. House of Cards, a critically acclaimed and excellent show, has made some TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE narrative decisions and straight up botched some scenes. that volume of mistakes could ruin a 2 hour movie, but when ever episode…

Sure it was fun to shit on for a while before it even came out but Suicide Squad was far from egregiously awful. It was a fun, popcorn, blockbuster theater experience. Calling that movie awful for what it was would be like calling a rollercoaster an uncomfortable chair or a shitty cargo train.

The lesson I learned from this is that the ultimate problem is the ubiquity of white male leads. Mighty Whitey could've been avoided if Dr. Strange himself was Asian (though it'd be hard to justify the surname). To my understanding, the MCU hasn't significantly changed the race or gender of any of the classic…

Wide eyes and a tooth-baring frown. Classic.

The best-handled rape in all of GoT was one that wasn't even shown. I'm talking about the rape(s) that happened in season 1 to the shaman-esque woman from one of the villages that the Dothraki. I'm open to correction if someone disagrees, but I feel like it had all the ingredients of how a show like GoT should handle…

She was becoming empowered before she ever went to Winterfell to marry Ramsey. But this is coming from someone who believes the show should've never had her marry Ramsey in the first place. There are ways to get all these characters in the same place that doesn't involve severely damaging the entire arc of one of them.

I honestly just pretend that scene didn't happen. From what the director said, he was just trying to depict the scene from the book where Jaime and Cersei have consensual (albeit fucked up and disturbing) sex in the same situation. But the way it actually came out on screen doesn't connote consent at all. They REALLY…

Maybe not the fulcrum itself, but Ramsey's nightly rape of Sansa is the first step and a major catalyst for Theon's redemption - remembering that Sansa's like a sister to him and that he can't let someone continue to do this to her. It's definitely more about him than about Sansa. Now, unlike a lot of similar…

It's not the fact that he raped Sansa - it's really the only way the wedding night could've gone down given the characters. The problem is that Sansa's rape (HER tragedy, HER abuse) was used as a turning point for Reek, step one in his transformation back into Theon. Whenever shows, movies, or games use sexual…

Agreed. The fact that not as much of it is produced doesn't automatically mean it's good. I'll have a 'Gansett over a lot of the bullshit I've had in providence

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People don't seem to realize that there are strong ideological issues people have with Hillary and her brand of neoliberalism/wall street-friendliness. It's not always "Hillary has done some questionable things and made questionable votes in the senate." Sometimes it's "I fundamentally disagree with her core ideology…

It's not even hypocrisy at this point. It's just manipulation of the rank and file by making sure Democrats can claim victory as infrequently as possible. Best example I think is how Republicans killed the public option in Obamacare, then conservative-minded litigators killed the mandatory Medicaid expansion, both of…

This isn't about calculated, thoughtful choice. Melania, based on whatever she wants out of a marriage, decided that Marriage to Trump was best for her, and that's fine. Nothing too morally reprehensible about their marriage.

It's not even that hard. "When you're a star they let you do it" implies that they WOULDN'T let you do it if there wasn't this star-factor power-imbalance. Any situation like that? No consent. If it seems as though both parties would give consent even in the absence of the power balance? Probably consent. Probably…

Comments like that are a product not of the IPA style itself, but the hackneyed presence of it in craft beer.

Generally don't offer both, definitely. But I'd go so far as to say universally. If the hop bitterness is balances with a lot of other nuanced flavors, is it really even an IPA? If one exists, I'd love to try it honestly.

eh, you ever had food so spicy you can't even taste it? Or that has so much hot sauce that you only get the flavor of the hot sauce? I think that's more analogous to IPA - the hop bitterness swallows up all the other flavors. A hoppy kick is great, just like a spicy kick, but they're great because they add to the…

Whatever's most inaccessible, it seems. Kind of like how coffee snobs break on anyone who doesn't drink it black.

If you like Fat Tire I'd recommend Abbey, also by New Belgium. And I don't know where you live, but if you're in the New England area I'd recommend basically anything from Berkshire Brewing Company.