I get what you’re saying, and good point about donating his body to science. But I assume the Avengers would be interested in taking care of their own colleague after his death, and I doubt any authorities would be able to stand in their way regardless of what laws they thought might apply.

Those are excellent points — thanks for taking the time.

“His body should’ve been released to her, not treated like a (once) sentient weapon for disposal.”

To make that happen, we would have to agree on what that history actually is. As Ms. Ruffin amply demonstrates, we have difficulty with that task.

“including that he favored an approach to emancipation that would include “voluntary deportation” of freed slaves out of the country”

I guess we don’t know how the MCU Avengers outside of Wanda regard Vision, but it would be sad if any of them thought of him as “property.” He was demonstrably a (synthetic) person with feelings and should have been buried with dignity.

I’m not 100% sure Wanda was responsible for the time skip in this episode. We got a very definite “NO” and a look with last episode’s rewind, but this one was different. I’m sure Wanda is contributing to the strangeness of Westview, but I don’t think we can assume she’s in complete control.

LOVE these ideas. I hadn’t even thought of her powers that way. How awesome would it be for the Big 7 to be saved from the big bad by Vixen? Like Green Arrow and The Atom taking down Darkseid back in the day.

That makes sense re: GLs. DC/WB should probably figure out that issue sooner rather than later. It’s a shame to let such a visually exciting character go to waste.

If DC and WB want a Black character in the Justice League — and they should — there are so many good ones to choose from: Steel, Vixen, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Black Lightning.

Thank you. They’ll consider replacing Affleck as Batman, but they won’t replace Fisher as Cyborg because...he’s too beloved? important? good at his job? I imagine the only thing keeping him in his job this long is the poor optics of firing someone who has complaints against you.

My husband and I both read The Three-Body Problem which was lacking in both forward motion and cohesion. Hubby plowed through the sequels and reports they were largely about competing factions having meetings? I don’t envy the filmmakers on this one. It doesn’t help that they’re trying to kill each other in the…

My favorite movie set during Christmas (but not about Christmas itself) has to be The Lion in Winter. Katherine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole version (1968), naturally. If you’ve ever fought with your family during the holidays, this is the movie for you. Equal parts hilarious, horrible, and cathartic.

Whole-heartedly seconded! I just watched Klaus for the third(?) time in two years and still laughed through tears pretty much the entire time. So good.

Yes! Christmas in Connecticut gets my vote for Best Holiday Screwball Comedy. My husband and I quote, “Cold chicken is my weakness!” pretty much all year round.

After reading other responses to this review, I realize that I wouldn’t mind the meandering plot or the unanswered questions if there was a strong central core of characters to care about. I could get behind a show that centered on Mother, Father, Mary/Sue, and maybe one or two of the kids (Paul? Tempest?). But…

That was an amazing roster. Steel as defacto leader when Superman wasn’t around was genius. And Barda’s fight with future Wonder Woman was epic.

Great, then I choose John Stewart Green Lantern and Vixen. For me, Cyborg will always belong to the Titans, so it’s weird to see him in the big leagues with the adults. Or in the Doom Patrol — if you need a Titan to join the DP, it should be Beast Boy. They’re his family, after all. I just think it’s weird DC is…

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that Cyborg shouldn't be in the Justice League at all. They should have completely replaced him with the John Stewart Green Lantern, who is awesome. The End.

Fair enough. But the original point of the article was that the AIDS epidemic had reduced gay characters in film to 2-dimensional caricatures and that the ‘90s was a cinematic wasteland populated only by tragic victims and sexless drag queens. Whatever you think of Swoon or Poison or The Living End, they certainly…