It’s that kind of demonic image of the Germans that was also whipped up by Allied propaganda and helped to ensure that the Treaty of Versailles was so punitive. Maybe we should just be grateful the screenwriters didn’t go with Kaiser Kong as their villain.

I think that’s one element, but another is that Wonder Woman’s central thesis (that War, as an external force embodied by an immortal god with an absolutely fucking ridiculous stuffy-old-man moustache that has no business being in flashbacks from thousands of years ago, is really behind the evil in all men’s hearts)…

author of the sequel novel specifically wrote it like this in response to the movie with the intention of basically making it an unfilmable wreck.

Mostly pointing out how silly it is for the first paragraph to imply that the character’s race is somehow important, while minimizing that he’s also mentally disabled. Bumbling and dim are words normally used to describe...I dunno, CBS sitcom husbands.

Yeah, the people countering complaints about the most recent seasons seem to be focusing on people calling out how the show “Moves too fast” and ask if we’d prefer to spend an entire season with Gendry running back to the Wall or something.

This. The joy of the books/earlier seasons was that they didn’t feel like they were trying to be crowd-pleasing or pander to the usual fantasy tropes (even when they did). The recent seasons don’t just feel like a different show, they feel like the writers trying to please the fans and keep things moving with various…

I know it’s not the point but I want to throw this out there:

To be fair, Steve started out as a creep, too. But he’s had a pretty great arc and is now, as you put it, “the best character on the show by a country mile.” I think Steve is actually too good for Nancy at this point.

Settings like this as well as those to come with Daenerys and her entourage on GoT always made me feel like I stumbled on an old Star Trek TNG episode :/

Between Steve and Jonathan, I am not sure that Nancy really had a right boyfriend choice.

To be honest a lot of people on here are in a bit of a bubble and don’t have a good sense of perspective regarding how rough other parts of the internet can be.

I’ve seen someone clutching their pearls about “hateful trolls in the greys” in an article that was literally a dozen comments overall and like maybe three…

I miss the old AVC disqus so much. Anytime I felt down and needed a laugh I headed over there. Comedy gold.

Oh so would I. Maybe a little more even. I post a lot on jalopnik and I’m so sick of being the greys all these years. 

I’d probably pay $5 or $10 to get out of my apparent permanently grey status.

I’d buy an Onion mug and an irregular Intolerability Index t-shirt to help with that pledge drive.

The AVClub probably would have been a harder sell since there isn’t one person who is the face of the organization.

That said a “buy out AVClub so we can burn Kinja to the ground” fund would undoubtedly get some attention.

If Eleven and Kali don’t have a mall fun montage using their psychic powers inspired by the great montage with the sisters at the mall in the 80s Night of the Comet, I will be sorely disappointed 

You’re gonna be paddlin’ upstream going against the love of Teddy around here, mister!

We did get the glowy plankton again, if only for the credits skit. In previous seasons they’ve felt very skippable, but this season is nailing them out of the park.

For Shuck’s Sake, a business name so good it’s in the episode instead of the opening credits.