God help me, I would want to see that. It would possibly turn into a hideous mess, but AHS has always kind of been at its best when talking about how history is a shitty place for the disadvantaged in society. Plus, it'd be great to actually explore the concept instead of using it as horror movie shorthand for "why…

Decimation was a mess in so many ways. I understand the need to keep there from being 10,000 X-Men characters all over, but Quesada's comments at the time carried this strange air of, "Now that mutants actually have the cultural presence of a minority group in-universe, rather than just being whatever minority…

God, I remember U-Decide, where Jemas tried to get the audience to decide between one of three books: Peter David's actually-pretty-decent Captain Marvel title; Zimmerman's Ultimate Adventures, which was yet another it's-Batman-but-not-Batman title; and his own Marville, which was like a resounding shart captured on…

Of course, given how SVU works nowadays, they have to pick some other ripped-from-the-headlines plot to blend it with. So… celebrity nude hacks? GamerGate? Ebola?

That was one of those "This show IS about sex crimes, right?" episodes. Like, I think the whole justification for it was that at first it looked like the victim was savagely mutilated down there, but no, it turned out a tiger ate her (and not like that).

And then it got magical when Atia found out, because nobody brings grand soap opera bitchiness like Atia of the Julii.

Fuller was out of there almost as soon as it started. I remember tales of how he ended up fighting with the execs over things like George's dad having an affair with a male student instead of a female one (hence George's "Grief aside, that dude is REALLY comforting my dad" bit in the pilot).

I remember reading somewhere that the first season was originally intended as an anthology. Then, like with Heroes, the network said no and the showrunners said, "…well, fuck."

There may also be medication for comorbid disorders. As someone with Asperger's and ADD, I've recently gotten back on Ritalin and am quite happy about it. Because let me tell you, the combination of getting lost in your own head, being easily distracted, and being driven to pursue whatever weird topic comes up can be…

"Wow, it REALLY is not subtle."

To take this seriously, for all that AHS has kind of plumbed the "American horror" sources, I don't think they've ever done a good old-fashioned cult. Marry it to a small town drama and have… I don't know, Pan's Labyrinth-style "scary fairies" in the woods, and you might have something.

Well, part of the thing about "Motoko Kunasagi" is that, even in text, it's one of those names that's GOT to be fake - I mean, how many people are named after a legendary sword? It's like naming an MI5 operative "Jenny Excalibur." It's part of what applies to the "What makes up a person?" theme inherent in the work -…

There's always kinda been this association between Native Americans and werewolves in modern urban fantasy/horror fiction, based on ideas of shamanism and nature, spirits entering shamans, and a desperate misunderstanding of what a "skinwalker" is in Navajo myth ("not like your white man's werewolf stories"… until it…

I think it's a fairly solid move. I haven't been keeping up with Earth 2 as much as I should have, I'm not exactly keen to now that's become "Tom Taylor writes ANOTHER evil Superman," and I'm not exactly happy that his fiance was killed off to fuel his backstory (my, we somehow keep coming back to that), but I'm glad…

I view Winick as someone who tries, but someone who also stands a good chance of fucking it up. He wants to do better with minority issues, but it sometimes results in such shit-the-bed moments as Batwing ("So, what's our African Batman's backstory?" "He's an AIDS orphan AND a child soldier") and his retcon of Ice's…

"Well, you did threaten to shove a knife up his dickhole. Which, again, ew."
"I'm sorry, Lana, it's a rampage!"

See, I'm torn on that. While yes, it would be badass, we've already got a lot of movies that try to sell straight audiences on How Hard It Is For The Poor Homosexuals through the plights of hate crimes, AIDS, and other assorted tragedies. And while these movies are meant to instill compassion in straight audiences,…

I've always found the worst uses of Women In Refrigerators are when the victim is still alive, having suffered through assault, torture, rape, etc., but it's STILL all about man-pain. The man, be it a friend or a lover, goes out to seek vengeance while the woman, I dunno, rests up, drinks hot cocoa, and has the…

It's one of those things that bleeds away in time. When I first started LARPing, it was a game of Changeling held in a black box theater. One of my fellow players asked if we wanted to continue a scene outside while he smoked. I - dressed in simple "urban cowboy" gear - said I wasn't necessarily comfortable LARPing in…

Sadly, SLP is one of those "better this than…" films. I'd rather ten of it than another goddamn movie about how PTSD makes you either a yipping Chihuahua or a time bomb, or how schizophrenia either makes you a tortured artist or a murderer in waiting.