Antagonists can arc. Any character can arc, and they’re more interesting if they do. I haven’t seen this episode or the second season, but Fisk’s arc in the first Daredevil, pushed by his interactions with Matt and Vanessa, was impressive.  

I didn’t rush.

So people with thinning hair shouldn’t wear it long even if they like having long hair because it offends your eyes? Maybe you should just look away and leave them to enjoy the haircut they like.

The Albert/Allegra romance was the part of this film that I liked. I think they set up her character briefly (she was pretty far down the list of important characters), but they showed that she was nice (never underestimate the pull of a nice person in a world of jerks), that she wanted to help her friends, that she…

No, she’s looking to avoid the knee-jerk responses from people who don’t understand that fridging is a long-time narrative problem, not to mention lazy writing.

That’s kind of the point: she didn’t die fighting, she didn’t die because of who she was or what she was doing, she was just fridged for the hero’s motivation. She’s not a character, she’s a plot development. The first movie established her as a strong character; you want her to die, give her some agency, don’t just…

I’m not a comic-book reader and I knew what fridging was and I’m really tired of it. A lot of women are because it’s not just in comic books, it happens when any storyteller or team wants to change up a character and goes for the easy motivation. Look at the second Bourne movie. Look at James Bond. If you’re really…

This may be one of those define-your-terms things.

I think the whole “male gaze” argument is really two arguments.

Yes. Well, somebody has to be. (I love you, too.)

So not true. Unless you also think there are only so many situations in a mystery novel. Or a horror novel. Or . . .

I used to write for Harlequin in the late 90's. There was no formula and they let me do pretty much anything I wanted as long as it was a romance. They only thing they made me change was an age difference from the woman being sixteen years older than the man to a ten-year age difference. No idea what it was like…

Dennis from the now-cancelled The Vane. He’s the Weather God.

This. Nothing against Ria at all, but Dennis was terrific and we should have him back, especially since the apocalypse appears to be approaching.

Yes, but then you talk about why the premise is a problem, you don’t say, “This is a bad premise.” A premise is just an idea; the execution is what tells the tale. Give the same premise to twenty different writers and you’ll get twenty different stories.

Monty Python meets The Princess Bride and they have a three-way with Spamalot.

It depends on what you want from publishing.

I’m no fan of Patterson, but this is a disservice to readers. People who like shorter books aren’t stupid, they just like shorter books. Most readers have a thirst for justice, it’s one of the reasons people keep reading to the end, to see whatever instability caused by the conflict in the story resolved. And I don’t…

I want Dennis back. After all those months of the Vane, aggregate Weather Lite reporting just does not cut it.

I liked Kingsman, except for the way it treated women. Gazelle was amazing, but she could be amazing because she was evil. The Swedish princess was an articulate, take charge, much respected head of state until the end when she became a bimbo porn joke who couldn’t speak English very well. Roxy was never allowed any…