Really, you guys are keeping Modern Family, and dropping Black-Ish. Well, that makes perfect sense, after all, who can't relate to a bunch of rich white people with no real problems? It's such a deep well, and so rarely explored!

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There was a list they did like five years ago that they dredged up when Sanders died. I think we're due for a new one.
As for episodes, I can't be bothered to look up titles so I'm just going to make some up:
Hank's Bender
Montana
Artie Quits
The Garden Weasel
aaand as you've helpfully reminded me, Hank's Night In The Sun…

You're like some creature out of goddamn Greek mythology, Half-Man, Half-Desk!

It's interchangeable.

…nanny-goat? What the fuck are we playing?

Intended or not, that's how they left it, the dumb bastards. Who honestly did NOT want to see Ramsey's tendons slowly torn out, and masticated?

The aesthetic yes, the story, not so much, it's more of a Starship Troopers knockoff that just happens to have space-elves in it.

They wanted it to reflect modern American values: Brown people need to be punished, and lily white rapists need to be handled with kit gloves.

Eh, we shop at the same tailor, but I like to think I was the original orgiastic god-queen.

Well, it's complicated, but let's just say it's mostly an autocracy.

"Tarnished" my ASS. If yanking your crank in a porno theatre is "public indecency" then I'm queen of the popes. He was indoors, in an inky black shame-hole whose sole purpose as a business was to provide a space for precisely what Mr. Reubens was up to; if anyone was unwillingly exposed it was their own stupid fault…

Oof, glad I missed that, sounds godawful, the whole post-enslavement narrative was one of the few genuinely decent plot-lines they had. I do agree about the exploratory stuff though, that was actually pretty fun, even if archaeology did turn into a grindy load of ass after a minute.

That sounds about right, too many ideas with not enough tying them together.

Hawkeye springs to mind the most readily, nobody gave a rat's ass about him until he moved to Hell's Kitchen and started hanging out with his neighbors, a move which also cribbed heavily from stuff the Daredevil comic has been doing for years, right down to the setting.

Was that what they were going for? I barely even made it halfway through before I gave up for good, but all I remember was a lot of poorly focused faffing about.

It's definitely a problem, but it's addressable with the right storytelling techniques. An expendable cast of strong, non-central characters and a focus on mini-arcs have saved more than one moribund comic book series, just as a for instance.

As a game, sure, but I won't be rushing out to read the novelization.

This is a big part of why WoW can never develop any sense of stakes, there's always got to be another tier of baddo, and an even more legendary set of gear, and yet another excuse for conflict. Nothing is ever resolved, the wheels just keep spinning.

Sorry Sam, Blizzard ran out of ideas a LONG time ago. Starcraft: Brood War was the last thing they ever made with a plot that felt like it mattered, and even that was pretty standard space opera stuff. The best that could be said was at least it actually had a few semi-relatable characters, and a sense of dramatic…