Yeah but at least it felt like first contact still respected its characters, Picard's rages aside. The new star trek movies feel like the people making them have only experienced the original series secondhand, like by watching snl parodies of it.

Yeah i get what he's saying about the shows seeming stretched out though, so i figured it might help to try something else.

Sorry i meant to say tng seasons 3-6. There are great episodes in seasons 2 and 7, and the series finale is fantastic, but they aren't as consistently good as the rest of the show, and season 1 is just bad.

If i were you, i'd start with next generation seasons 2-6. Then move on to deep space nine, then go back and watch the original series. After that, if you still want more trek, select episodes of Voyager and Enterprise, but those series are not very good.

I didn't know any blind people growing up but the mentally challenged kids at my school got a ton of abuse. Usually it was more of the "we're just having fun with him" type stuff but nobody watching from afar like me ever thought it was anything but cruel. And no, i didn't speak up about it.

King should have watched the whole thing. What made the film fun is that the theorists aren't academics overanalyzing, they're crackpots.

Personally i prefer the Claremont/Paul Smith era and the early romita jr era more than the Byrne stuff.

What? longshot didn't go through the Siege Perilous. He left the team before Psylocke sent the team through. Gambit was originally intended to be another version of Mr Sinister.

My problem with Quitely is how often his characters look like they're composed of millions of maggots.

X-men in australia was great. It was when they left australia and there was no x-men for like two years that the book got bad, and never really recovered.

No. Two things 1)Marvel thrives on characters with obvious character defects and 2) bigotry isn't simply something that only obviously bad people participate in.

I see from your other posts that you prefer DC style heroes. Fair enough. No real need to take this any further, though i strongly disagree with your position that persistent and uncomfortably widespread bigotry doesn't make for good stories.

Yes, enthusiastically.

Why?

Strongly disagree.

Lots of marvel heroes are assholes. But you don't need to be a stereotypical asshole to buy into your society's inherent bigotries and prejudices.

Comic writers are never as funny as they think they are. Jason Aaron is another guy who needs someone to tell him to stop trying so hard to get laughs.

As someone mentioned before, the morlocks started out as exactly that, mutants who couldn't fit in or pass as regular humans.

Other heroes ignoring anti-mutant prejudice, and sometimes engaging in it themselves makes perfect sense.

Yeah they really had a great lineup all month long last year. They really cut down this year for whatever reason, which is very disappointing. I was planning on DVRing a bunch of stuff just to have.