In my experience, they think acting the way they do is awesome for them, not that other people think they're awesome in a remotely positive way. This isn't the case for everyone, of course, but the blanket statement 'No villain ever thinks they’re a villain' is just straight wrong. To a lesser extent, how do you…

'No villain ever thinks they’re a villain. Not in real life.'

"Werewolf!"
"Werewolf?"
"There."
"What?"
"There-wolf!"

"Me John, Big Tree!" never fails to make me laugh. It's just so contextless and silly, and Stephen Stucker commits to it so completely. That's pretty much why I love the whole movie actually (apart from the contextless bit, as the plot's pretty solid), it's an hour and a half of utterly loveable silliness played with…

I recently purchased Bayonetta 2, and even though I'm quite abysmal at it, it's quite entertaining. Will probably be pushing through that in my spare time, plus a little Mario Kart in preparation for the latest batch of DLC this coming Thursday.

I'll give that link a read when I have more time. For my position, I can only speak from experience. Three male friends have been financially screwed over to various degrees by the system in divorces, with all the wives in question having stable jobs and children only involved in one instance.

I'm a fairly casual Star Wars fan, but it feels a bit of a shame that all the old characters need to be involved in this. We're unlikely to get any major new insights into their characters, so they'll most likely be there as fan-pleasing plot devices first and foremost. Personally, the new cast members look absolutely…

Not sure what reality you live in if you think the divorce courts are even remotely fair, let along balanced in favour of men. Yes, many areas of life are stacked in men's favour, particularly straight white men, and that needs to be addressed for everyone's sake. That doesn't mean areas which are unbalanced in the…

"From the start, there’s some doubt thrown on the idea that a divorce
would automatically result in Williams’ character being immediately cast
out into a hovel."

"I'm going to remind Fry of his humanity the way only a woman can."
"You're going to do his laundry?"
*slap*

I like Elroy and I like Frankie, yet neither fit into the ensemble for me. I've no idea why, especially since Hickey and Duncan slid in pretty comfortably after Pierce and Troy left. Maybe it's just because so many of the original cast have now departed that the show can't help but feel like a shadow of its former…

The corridor fight at the end really is jaw-dropping. Aside from the outstanding camerawork, choreography and lighting, what really gives the scene its power is the emphasis on how severely wounded and physically exhausted Murdoch is. He's almost doubling over in pain at every punch, yet his opponents get back up…

No Kendrick? No dice, Chicago.

The movie's narrative and dialogue has problems, with most of the twists proving fairly predictable, but the unpredictable agendas of the three main characters as they subtly manipulate each other throughout makes for a consistently taut and compelling watch.

It wouldn't make sense for them to be anything other than white people in such privileged positions, especially in Draper's time, but I'm not sure that's strictly relevant to what does or does not make them anti-heroes. I probably overstated the significance of what was likely an off-handed observation from the…

Fair enough, I still see bringing ethnicity into the equation when there are more pertinent similarities to point out as problematic, but can see your point.

What they have in common is that they're anti-heroes. Their ethnicity has no relevance.

I didn't compare them. I swapped the white characters in the sentence for black ones to make a point about how prejudicial writing such a thing would be if a white person had written it about black characters. I also pointed out how difficult it was to think of black characters who fit the anti-hero mould because I…

"It’s tempting to say Draper’s name in the same breath as Tony Soprano and Walter White because they’re all white men who engage in nefarious acts that compel us to watch rather than look away."

Not sure I'd call Brand much of a thinker, so much as the embodiment of hashtag activism, reacting to serious concerns and problems with poorly considered, kneejerk solutions that lots of people jump on board with because they sound catchy, appealing and easily lend themselves to self-congratulation. That said, he…