You’re right, that’s so unlike any previous Pixar movies released so far...

So in the alternate universe North Koreans live in, the US gave back to Mexico La Mesilla, conquered Baja California and annexed Canada?

:(

So you admit you don’t really watch the show, you base your perception of the show on what other people say about it.

I don't know... he seems like a very enlightened and knowledgeable young boy.

So you base your perception of race on eye colour?

I thought the premise of the show was Ichabod trying to stop the Apocalypse... you know the end of the world and humanity which you would think goes beyond the Anglosphere.

Was anyone else bothered by how they re-wrote a popular Mexican folk tale into a yet another white European centric story? It's like Moloch only cares about England and its former colony.

That's not a bug... the baby is blocking the other side of the bed. Just move the cradle.

The difference lies on the fact that unlike the U.S., Mexico's population is largely (close to 80%) made of mestizos (mix of Europeans and indigenous population) and indigenous people. When Mexico declared its independence, the ruling power changed from Spaniards and criollos (children of Europeans born in the…

But it was the Spaniards who invaded and conquered the indigenous people in the Americas!

Please point to me the part where I mentioned that Mexico was in a higher moral standing. I'm well aware of the inequities the indigenous populations in Mexico have suffered.

Europeans didn't create "the country of Mexico". Spain established the colony of New Spain which included the territories in today's southern USA to current Panama. Mexico as a country never went through an imperialistic phase. There was a time when France invaded Mexico and established the Mexican Empire but that's a…

There's an old saying attributed to early 1900's dictator Porfirio Diaz: "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!". Mexico's development has been greatly influenced by the US and although its terrible corrupt leaders carry big part of the blame, USA's interventionist politics play an important…

Ops! meant to reply to Burn, sorry!

It is a bit arrogant to assume that had Mexico kept those rich territories and his big, powerful, world-biggest-drug-consumer of a neighbour wasn't as big as it is today it would still have the issues it has.

There's snark and then there's saying that a show is a "strain" to watch and a waste of time. Snarky reviews are fun to read but when the writer focus so much on the negative points of a show it just seems like he's trying too hard to hate it.

I find it weird that other shows that have more problems in their plots/story telling (Defiance, Grimm) receive more positive reviews from him than The Strain... I know it's not the perfect show but his two reviews seem too harsh and nitpicky.

But that still doesn't make sense :S