I think "whine" doesn't capture the magnitude of Archer's bitchery. "Whine" implies Wesley Crusher-style antics. Archer, on the other hand, threatens RETALIATION against the aliens because he made the mistake of bringing his dog into an alien biosphere. It doesn't spread beyond his crew, but I wouldn't be surprised if…

Chakotay's cultural stuff was a huge fucking mess, too. The producers said they wanted Chakotay to be their Uhura, a minority figure that members of his minority could look to. Instead, he became the raw Nineties stereotype of the mystically-attuned Native American, in ways both base (like that episode in the last…

Y'know what does a great job of showing you're not awful? Referring to women as "females." That doesn't have the air of creepy at all.

Anyone remember Murder in Small Town X? I think that was the last time network TV tried to make a LARP-style reality show. Only that was a murder mystery LARP, whereas this is straight-up boffer.

As someone who views the "tent peg" quote as one of those grand examples of "Oh God stop talking now," I wouldn't say McCaffrey views gays as "the scum of the earth"; otherwise, we'd be getting some Orson Scott Card-level shit in the books. She's just one of those people of a certain generation who views themselves as…

You knew it wasn't going good places when a, Judd Winick got attached (whose minority experience record includes "Kyle Rayner is suddenly of Mexican descent now!", "Kyle Rayner's gay assistant gets the shit beat out of him, and the entire story arc focuses on Kyle's angst!", and "Ice is now suddenly Romani, and the…

Man, the African Batwing was one of those attempts to do something good that just ran headlong into "what have I heard about Africa via CNN?". It started with the main character's backstory having him be an AIDS orphan who'd been forced into servitude as a child soldier, and went downhill from there.

And sometimes, you had issues where the new minority character ended up being there to get killed. During Robert Kirkman's run on Marvel Team-Up, he created Freedom Ring, a gay hero with a somewhat dumb name but an interesting power set (after finding a ring-shaped chunk of the Cosmic Cube, he gains the power to alter…

*splashes water on RD*

Caribou.

See, we're probably going to go back into the "people on the spectrum talk past one another about Sonya" thing, but my personal experience as someone with Asperger's has somewhat attuned me to the idea of spirituality. Maybe not faith, in the way the truly devout practice it; the main reason I entered a church in the…

I'm honestly surprised they didn't include "Must bring own paper bag for comparison."

It's a giant spider invasion of savings, at Menard's!

Oh, Christ, that episode. I got a glimpse of my personal Special Hell when I had to deal with a room full of straight people arguing to me that it TOTALLY works when you change the meaning of "fag" but still try to popularize it as an insult.

"…the North American Man-Boy Love Association, or, as it's more commonly known, UNICEF."

Why not Zoidberg?

I love how the "Who are you?" asides started off as relative insults, but then got more literate and academic.

Sam Shepard is Chuck Yeagar in Night, Mother!

"PAAAAAAAM!"
"Whaaaaaat?"
"…I dunno, what are we doing?"

Wait, who IS my supervisor?