Yes, that’s my point. The great majority of the GoT cast are either experienced character actors who have been steadily working for years (Like Stephen Dillane), or actual stars (Sean Bean), or hot up and comers like Iwan Rheon. With very few exceptions, the only people on Game of Thrones that either don’t have…

Yeah, Sean Bean, Charles Dance, Peter Dinklage, Diana Rigg, Mark Addy, Jason Momoa, Lena Heady, Nicolas Coster Waldeau, Iwan Rheon, Natalie Dormer, Pedro Pascal... I sure worry they can get some kind of career in acting going when Game of Thrones ends.

I clicked the headline hoping for the instant Bobby Valentine joke.

The Quicksilver stuff is very annoying, because he’s fun as a set piece FX gag, but they can’t possible make a movie work with him at that (exploding house scene) power level, so when he goes to fight Apocalypse the fight is stupid and arbitrary.

Enh, that movie was in pretty much every way terrible. Sophie Turner off in the corner being one of the 30 terrible things about it doesn’t say much.

Alan Thicke was 69 years old. In cardiac terms that is not young. It’s not, you know, ancient, but still.

Genji and Mercy is a thing, I believe.

Fans like to say that, and it’s partially true, but fans will also happily ship the hell out of a male character that appeared that one time in the background in that episode. Most fannish creators are straight women. They may be supportive of better female characters, but creatively their interest (especially for…

Farscape and SG1 were very different shows with very different goals and I don’t think comparing them is very useful. I think Farscape had higher highs and lower lows than SG-1, but I liked them both.

Dark Matter is definitely Space Opera and has improved hugely from season 1.

To be fair, that’s super common on TV. I’ve seen so many cop shows where the cops are detectives, and apparently on the SWAT team, and hostage negotiators, and forensics experts, etc. The “science/tech” person on so many shows is an expert in all scientific fields.

Actually the show frequently pointed out the ways in which America gets better over time,and how many historical figures were more interesting and human and remarkable than you’d know from history books.

Agents of Shield is pretty solid on the diversity tip.

I remember when this show was fun and I liked it.

You’re putting a bit too much faith in Neill Blomkamp I think. 

Wonder Woman goes off to Man’s world to try to quell WW1, finds out it’s being agitated secretly by Ares, fights Ares.

Suicide Squad was bearable because it had a handful of charismatic performances. But structurally, that movie was a disaster. Nothing in the premise or plot makes any sense at all.

Enh, the scenes on Themyscira had a goodly amount of bright colors and sun, and the scene linked above is basically straight action comedy. So the movie might have some levity and fun to it.

It was a rumor from a while back that so far as I know hasn’t been corroborated since.