Ah.. Well, in that case, who the fuck was ever making blood sacrifices to Ganesh? Or am I just misinterpreting everything wildly from a casual viewer's perspective?

Like, everyone was sick to death of the Season 6 plotline of the religious fundamentalist killers staging their kills to look like scenes out of Revelation in an effort to herald the apocalypse.

Yeah, whenever Supernatural goes for the pagan god stuff, I have to reach for a drink. Osiris was the fair and just ruler of the underworld - but he's a pagan death god on this show, so he's a dick and a half.

Man, for a while, I thought I was alone in picking up on that strand. I know everyone focuses on football and bad backdrops and fucking bellybuttons and dialogue with a wood content higher than Noah's Ark, but good God, the misogyny in that thing glows like semen under blacklight.

Reality TV in the past few years has seen some capricious motherfuckers barge in to take advantage of the wreckage sowed by the 2008 recession and pretend they're being magnanimous when they're just being absolute fucks. Examples I can recall off the top of my head:

I think it's also the fact that Carol is finally starting to be a dynamic hero after years of TRULY unfortunate setbacks (e.g., the infamous "I got impregnated by a cosmic entity then seduced/mind controlled by the bastard lovechild that came forth from my loins" bit in Avengers 200, the long bout with alcoholism).…

Better yet, the CancerAIDS Quilt. Which is mainly used as a funeral shroud for people you wouldn't miss anyway.

It's sad. I feel like there's a lot of potential to Northstar's character. Before coming out, he was an arrogant bastard, a former athlete bitter about being barred from his sport due to his powers, a political activist who bordered on radicalism, and deeply devoted to caring for his clearly troubled sister. After he…

Off the top of my head, established characters who were later outed:

Well, the whole relationship thing was Peter David's idea; he was building off of the clear bromance. Liefeld, when he found out, insisted that Shatterstar was always meant to be asexual, and he'd be switching it back the next time the character was under his pen. Quesada, in a moment of cool, responded with "Suuuuure…

Well, I say "big" in quotation marks - like, the gaming press made a deal out of it, but it's really nothing but slight character development in the game. And that's good. There's a whole spectrum to this type of thing - not every gay character needs to have romance and a big social statement. Some can, but it's also…

And of course, I've already seen comments about Kung Jin along the lines of, "Ugh, was this NECESSARY? It makes it a whole thing." Like, unless I'm missing some Sindel-esque "I make out with a dude until his balls explode" Fatality, here's what I understand to be the sum total of how Kung Jin's gayness affects the…

Yeah, it's a weird disconnect. It was strange to watch the video for the big "Kung Jin is gay" reveal, see the guy shoot arrows right into Raiden's eyes, then have the guy show up in the following cut scene like nothing had happened. I mean, motherfucker's a GOD, so it's probably the most believable case of that, but…

The Justice League pilot proved CBS had issues getting the tone of superheroes right. The thing was like an episode of Friends with occasional interludes for the bare minimum of superheroics. Which, could work if done right - I remember there was that British sitcom No Heroics, about superheroes who just chill in a…

He really went from "I'm the hardbitten man who the world has passed by" to "I'm the old man wondering why you won't get off my lawn" when he did that rant wondering why the Occupy Wall Street protesters weren't off doing the right thing and shooting brown people, lamenting these kids with their smart phones and…

It's still a case where calling attention to the trope doesn't necessarily obviate the fact that the trope exists and is going the way it is. I know I've seen a number of cases where there just happens to be a member of the local ethnicity who's super jealous that the Magical Whitey has the acclaim and esteem of his…

It's… complicated. While Danny's "Stranger in a Strange Land" thing works to define his nature as Iron Fist, it also is a hallmark of a time full of Mighty Whiteys - when there was this ancient wisdom in lost Asian mountain villages, or the deepest jungles of Africa, or the Native American plains, but the only person…

I was kinda hoping, with the precedent of Black Heimdall and all the "Does Danny Rand really need to be a white boy?" discussion, we might have something other than White Ninja Master for Stick. But then, if you're going to do White Ninja Master, you can't really do better than Scott Glenn.

This episode also did a good job laying out the pathology of The Kingpin. I know, it's a fairly obvious backstory for a villain who teeters between sympathetic and psychotic, but that one line after he opens fire on the cops - "See what you made me do?" - easily suggests what's going to be confirmed in two episodes'…

Fuuuuck, when you put it like that, I kinda actually want to see what Friedman would've done with Oz. His second season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles was basically "Everything Genisys looks like it's trying to do, only without the more screamingly stupid bits."