& I FEEL LOVE isn't just any old disco, it's considered to be one of THE most influential tracks in the development of electronic and dance music

And not just disco music—Moroder's work on I FEEL LOVE has led to its being recognized as one of THE most pivotal tracks in the development of every dance song that came after. So dude can snob out all he wants, there is whole nuther music snob cartel ready to tangle.

I'd love for Archie to encounter a crisis applying stage makeup for a performance, just so Veronica, Josie or Cheryl can deliver the line "Cover Girl don't cover boy"

~Part of what makes Archie's profound basicness work for me is that I feel like he is constantly being overtly framed and viewed by the show's gay AF creators through this fetishistic queer gaze that is quite different than a similarly lame duck character like, say, Dawson Leary. Archie seems deliberately situated as…

I'm not usually a stickler for logic when the emotional stakes are well rendered, but I found this one almost unwatchably stupid. These are not ordinary people, they are ostensibly trained government agents, and using one's loved ones against them is like secret agent 101. A little bit of blindness on the part of Kara…

But it is also very well documented that Feig wants nothing to do w/ the television unit, no?

I mean neoliberalism, I get it, but I was honestly really surprised to hear a parent on a teen television show casually and overtly reference gay cruising. We really have come a long way from Jack McPhee I guess.

so with you on this, and the dialogue. The slash writes itself:

and the TNG reference. Did anybody catch Felicity shouting DARMOK AND GILAD AT TINAGRA?

there were some serious slashy sparks in that scene though, right? I was feeling a vibe.

Anybody else think Barry and Oliver's final scene together was slashy AF?

I remember what Dante looked like b/c Nicholas Gonzalez is HOT, but maybe that's just me.

"Ray tells Barry that Leonard Snart died a hero. But did that happen in this reconfigured timeline? We know Wentworth Miller is under contract, so I’m guessing not."

It's not a logic problem or ideological debate. He's the absolute last of his species, and he's turning into one of the folks who perpetrated genocide against them. IMO his desire to avoid that fate isn't hard to understand.

Choose to read this as a hysterical satire of 80's domestic realist literary fiction.

I think "real people" are far more likely to say "why are you telling me this" than they are, "Don't make me do something we'll both regret," which is one of my favorite TVisms.

And not just fiction, but SCANDAL, which Emily Nussbaum (who truly gets this show) has rightly described as OPERA. As disturbing as this was, it was the most operatic and also the most Scandalesque moment all season. An element of this show has always been about how vastly morally and ethically compromised the support…

anyway, I think direct allegories are boring… intersecting resonances and complexities seem far more compelling.

Look up Lee Edelman. There's a whole body of queer theory that suggests that the only real radical potential of queer politics is embracing the threat it poses to hetero-futurity. What if we actually ARE intent on destroying the happy normative family. This is where texts like True Blood, or say the original Magneto…

O… I thought it was a question of casting. Yr talking about opening titles. Never mind.