Non-zombie Duncan. Ironically.

Major is totally the Duncan. Quoth Veronica Mars, "You can't be that rich and that pleasant without harboring a dark secret."

No one's saying she needs to suit up and fight next to him, just that on the whole, its both realistically more practical and narratively way less annoying to just tell her already.

In a more general sense, I feel like The Wind Rises is one of those movies that either hits you in an incredibly personal place, or doesn't work at all. I've never before left a theater with such an equal mixture of "understanding why some people might not like the movie" and "ugly sobbing."

I might have been able to make the switch, based on Claire's investment in Gabriel, if the stuff that happened in Gabriel's part had been more in line with the kind of story that came before. Up to that point, I'd been reading a magical realism-flavored dystopia, one that had real human heroes and villains with…

I know I'm a month late, but I've been wanting to have this conversation for ages, and it turns out there aren't that many people willing to discuss the Giver sequels. I loved the first 2/3 of Son—possibly even better than The Giver—but I hate everything that happens after the PoV hand-off. I was so invested in…

If you're going to count Sleepy Hollow, then I'd say that Elementary gives us a second show with an Asian lead. But… yeah.

I love the Lost finale. If I weren't the kind of person who was going to love the Lost finale, I would have quit watching the show long before season six. It was a beautiful ending, as long as you weren't invested in, like, answers.

Nope. People who stuck around Lost for six seasons and expected anything other than what they got perplex me.

Specifically, in the 2010 census, 54 percent of Atlanta residents were black, compared to 33 percent white non-Hispanic.

There's a middle ground between "no people of color die" and "every single black man dies." It's what the word "some" was invented for.

The Walking Dead has killed every single black male character who has ever been in 10 or more episodes. Every single goddamned one. Five out of five.

The stats you're looking for can be found, easily, by reading a Wikipedia page with a calculator at hand. There are five times as many living white male main characters as there are living black male main characters. It is a fucking statistical impossibility that the show kills them at the same rate.

Proportionally. Proportionally. If a show has 10 white characters and five black characters, and it kills four of each, that's not really a victory for racial parity.

Okay, I (and literally everyone else who has brought up this issue) am talking about characters with like, names and story arcs. A dozen dead white extras aren't really comparable to the three black main characters who have been killed this season.

"I am absolutely convinced that a statistical analysis of the show from the beginning to the present, charting all character intros and deaths, would show 100% racial parity."

Race may not matter in the world of the show (debatable, but whatever), but it sure as hell matters out here, in the real world, where people of color might want to see characters who look like them who aren't guaranteed a gruesome and narratively tiresome death.

Feel like you might be mixing up the causation, there.

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