Yep, this is the main reason I’ll always be glad he was a ‘big thing’ despite the issues- because he gave so many writers a good start. Invariably, if I’m watching a genre show and thing ‘that was a great episode!’ it was written by one of the people you listed.    (And I’d add Ben Edlund, who wrote most of my…

Agree with all of that, and just wanted to add that I always had a weird vibe about the way he wrote Faith (and his obsession with Eliza Dushku in general). I do actually like Whedon’s shows, and am grateful that he gave so many great TV writers a good start, but I’m not at all surprised that he has some icky…

Right?! Whatever happened to old-fashioned muggings where you just got punched / threatened / maybe bonked on the head?

“Thanks, my mother made it for me” - a shout-out for Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman fans!!!

Actually, I think that was a Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman reference? The show aired in 1993-97, and it looks like Superman for All Seasons was published in 1998.

Exactly - “this world and everyone in it is terrible” is a very different kind of somber from “bad stuff happens but we’ll get through it.” The latter can work for a Superman story. The tone didn’t bother me here, because we still get the sense that Clark and Lois and the two boys all care about and support each…

I was also pleasantly surprised with the kids. Happily, it looks like the show is going to let them be two decent sons of two decent people. Jonathan’s “you know what, I’m good with who I am” approach to his brother getting the powers bodes well.

I also really enjoyed Thor 1, in part for two reasons that they ironically walked back in TDW because people complained about them:

Seconded - I liked it, am also childless (and couldn’t be a dad without gender reassignment), and was born in 1987.

The show’s not for everyone, sure, but taking issue with him riding a horse is... odd. He only rides a horse like twice, and it’s the 1920s, and the character is involved in betting on horses and has gypsy family.

I’d actually love to see more stuff set in the 60s, when everyone was starting to figure out how to be cool. (That admittedly has the demographics problem you were talking about, but it seems like it would be doable to have a main character who is intentionally liberal / counterculture in that era, which would open up…

Do people (other than the article author) really consider this a superhero movie? I’m not sure ‘origin story, villain monologue and final showdown’ are enough - why isn’t this just a fantasy movie about a team of immortals? Is Highlander a superhero? 

Yeah - while its entirely plausible that a newly-out trans actor would be willing to be professional about it and continue to play a female role (its not like there’s not a long history of cross-dressing in theater), if there’s any show where a character could say ‘hey, I’m a guy now’ and have it work perfectly fine,…

Yeah, that reference is confusing in all kinds of ways. If she meant Middle Eastern then she has no idea how much hello-kissing there is; if she meant Asia then ‘Asian men are manly’ is the opposite of what someone with her views usually thinks. Maybe she meant manly Eastern Europeans? Except she probably thinks…

Yeah, details matter here. If Lois was being relegated to taking care of the kids and never got any actual journalism plots, then yes, that’s shitty. But if she was trying to suggest ‘hey, let’s dedicate massive chunks of this superhero show to storylines that reflect women, like about how hard it is to find a good…

It depends on how you define the star trek legacy - if you’re talking format or look, then sure, the track record isn’t great. But I think when most people say ‘this is/isn’t star trek’ they’re talking about the outlook/morality, i.e. a world of federation ideals where good people try their best to do the right thing…

I loved both the movie and him in it, but I think everyone forgets that was him (...its the hair)

I blame Orlando Bloom’s relative-obscurity on everyone getting sick of the Pirates movies. (I did like him in Carnival Row, though, critical reviews be damned).

The pessimist in me would counter that most Americans don’t know much about anything, up to and including China’s atrocities.

Ah, I forgot about the thread.