To be fair, it's more of a homage to westerns than the Confederacy itself and I think Jewel Whatever was a last minute replacement. The symbolism is shockingly ill-judged though and I'd imagine seems even more so to Americans.

Yes.

I think the idea is that Syndrome's jealousy of the exceptional is a caricature of progressives or those advocating more equality. Having said that, I think the director explicitly denied that this was the intention, so it seems strange to go after the Incredibles for possible libertarianism when there are so many…

You are writing in a rather vehement way for someone who doesn't care, old chap. It's obviously imprecise but no more so than referring to all Chinese, Japanese, Timor-leste-ese e.t.c. as Asians is. It's not like britons don't know the words 'Indian' or 'Pakistani'. It is a useful term when discussing treatment of…

Those wacky brits, referring to people from Asia as 'Asians'…

And now you're shitting on Batman and Robin??? WTF dude? Any more classics you want to besmirch? How about The Godfather? or 2001? or Meet the Fockers? Philistine.

Yeah, it divides the audience into a) people who liked it and b) people with functioning eyes and ears.
(Okay, it's not actually that bad, but it is extremely rote and uninspired)

TOM BOMBADIL IS FORGETFUL OKAY??!!!

That's … actually very similar to the plot of Avengers 2…

There was one, you just didn't see it because it was so small and communicated by scent glands rather than sound.

Wait, so there's a Batman Forever backlash now? The world makes no sense to me anymore.

It seems kind of patronising to suggest that the work of ethnic minority writers can't be criticized. And I'm sure I've seen a lot of celebration of exactly what you're talking about on this site.

Is an 'oh, girl' moment similar to a 'you go, girl' moment or are they distinct entities?

Yeah, I was getting pretty strong 'enraged fanboy/girl' vibes from this article.

Yeah, it's so clever that it doesn't even have to bother to come up with an explanation for it's biggest plot twist.

The Wire has a far broader scope than just drug crimes and Breaking Bad really just uses the drug thing as an 'in' to explore a man's hubris and self-destruction. That said, I would avoid both if you can't bear to watch anything drugs-related.

So if you found out your best friend was a ninja vigilante with superpowers you wouldn't ask what those superpowers were? I mean, I wouldn't accost a blind stranger in the street and demand excruciating detail about his perception of the world, but that is hardly the situation that occurred on screen.

You sound awfully phlegmatic … perhaps a leeching is in order.

Yeah and the same is true of all academic disciplines and most vocational ones. I know that Freud wanted to sleep with his mother but not exactly why. I know that banking requires penetration with candlesticks but not how this is connected to the sub-prime mortgage market. The list is endless.

It's boring to some people, but the fact this is often portrayed as the default reaction of everyone who's not Sheldon Cooper creates a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.