Well, that's disappointing.

As your joke points out, though, it's like they fixed the one major issue with the original anime—Usagi being a perpetual, if lovable goofball until every arc finale, when she got her shit together—only to leave us with a show that has a more nuanced heroine, but absolutely no shred of heart.

Agreed about character development. Say what you will about the yoma-of-the-week format from the original anime, at least it meant plenty of time to get to know everyone. It seems like the wise thing would be to really make dialogue count in Crystal given its pacing, but really it consists mostly of generic reactions…

Wait, so is Crystal going to cover the entire manga or just up through what was adapted as either R? The pacing has been pretty speedy so far, but given that we're at episode 9 of a planned 26, I don't see them making it all the way through Sailor Stars. It would be a bummer if we didn't even get to the Outer Senshi.

Instead they've simply switched their username which is, apparently, a thing one can now do on Gawker.

Wait, so your response to sexism is homophobic language ("dick-gargler")?

Wow. Given all the history associated with the mutant metaphor, that would be supremely fucked up.

"OH HEY, you know how this was about minority struggles, often in incredibly nuanced, thoughtful ways? Well, FOX has the rights to that whole thing, so fuck it, this is about aliens and crystals and mists on the moon now."

ZOMG, IRL Qurupeco. Next you're going to tell me it can strike the keratin nubs together like flints, and its quacks call larger, more annoying animals to fight for it.

I will be cautiously optimistic until I find out Gates McFadden is involved again...

X-Men readers are continually expected to find someone called "Mr. Sinister" threatening as one of the Big Bads of that franchise. For an evil mastermind, he sure didn't think his moniker through very well.

My memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure this is from one of the later episodes of DS9. There's one episode—"Far Beyond The Stars"—in which Sisko has a vision of himself as a twentieth-century science-fiction author, and this is Dax's counterpart.

I don't know, I feel like I realized on my third re-watch that as soon as it makes with the "ONE YEAR LATER" screen at the end of Season Two, it's pretty much all downhill. Except, of course, for the Galactica's jump into atmo. For me that's the show's last true crowning moment of fuck yeah before they start having…

I don't think I fully appreciated The Giver until I read Beth Povinelli's essay on Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." There's a lot of interesting overlap between The Giver and Le Guin's short story, and Povinelli does a fantastic job making some really timely connections. While most of the…

*scanners exploding head.gif because you just made me realize that the Ally McBeal reference is totally why dancing Groot happened and I never thought Ally McBeal would be relevant again outside of graduate courses on post-feminism.*

That was pretty great!

Rah rah humanism or whatever aside, there are a lot of factors that LGBT relationships deal with that straight ones do not (and vice versa). For that matter, there are really important differences between L and G and B and T relationships. It might all be the "same love" or whatever happens to be the…

Of course, Box Office isn't the only measure of a movie's success...

The reason I asked the question was because I knew Lee does a lot of DC shit and Silvestri mostly does Marvel, but that looked a lot like Silvestri's run at the end of New X-Men.

Oh damn, is that Silvestri up top?

Good gods, I had no cognizance of how many films began with absolutely awesome voiceovers until I read this thread. Thanks, io9, for restoring my faith in a narrative convention I didn't even realize I'd lost faith in.