Merely being subversive doesn’t make or break a film, but people do actively hype up the other Marvel films I mentioned as being subversive or otherwise daring in some way. And what legitimately bold storytelling risks do they take?

GotG touted “tHIs is SO Bold THE MAIN ChaRAcTEr is a talKIng RAcoooN”, like it wasn’t…

Oh that film’s done extremely well for itself as far as box office goes, but going by the internet discussions, both then and now, it’s easily the most polarizing in the entire series. Bit of a proto-TLJ situation four years before the actual TLJ.

I can imagine a bunch of Disney suits generally preferring a film that…

...but I don’t like moody Superman and Batman killing people? And while I think the Mark Zuckerberg take on Lex Luthor is an interesting one, it’s completely wrong for that film.

Why you gotta be a snide dickhead and insinuate I’m a butthurt Snyder fanboy just because I pointed out that a lot of the actively hyped up…

I feel like Iron Man 3 was the last time MCU tried anything ballsy and after that reaction to it, they pretty much just defaulted to giving the masses exactly what they wanted.

In a way, Winter Solider, GotG, Civil War, Infinity War, and Black Panther are all far less subversive films than Iron Man 3 was.

Days Of Future Past is probably the closest you will come to that.

If you want to get really cynical, Tony Stark having significant character development and status quo shakeups in his solo series only for all of it to get completely shat on by some other writer who just wants to make a big dumb crossover event, is actually peak Marvel Comics.

Archer backlash has existed in some variety since basically Season 5.

Roose Bolton, while an evil man who prefers to be feared rather than loved, is like the definition of tough, but fair. He wishes to rule with an iron fist and will not tolerate disobedience, but also isn’t one to make unreasonable demands. There’s no indication that any of the lords or peasants would be fundamentally…

It’s not that the show is actually confusing in absolute terms, it’s just very obviously written far more obtusely that it really needs to be.

Season 2 had a very simple plot wrapped up in seven layers of non-linear storytelling bullshit that existed pretty much exclusively in order to always strategically keep the…

I don’t know, I would argue this is far less to do with actual good writing in terms of the relationships and more just the characters being very well written in general. DS9 is the one Star Trek series that’s pretty much legitimately great throughout as opposed to the rest of them where even the best of bunch ie: TNG…

Bold of you to say pretty much all of DS9's romantic/marital writing wasn’t blah - unless we’re shipping O’Brien-Bashir.

Your point is severely undermined by the fact you couldn’t come up with a a better example than Jessica Jones.

Does anyone honestly remember what happened in the second season?

I would be pretty okay if they had permanently stuck to the logo tribute from Captain Marvel. Or at least for a relative while.

Doom Patrol is legitimately arthouse in ways a CW show could never even hope to aspire, tbf.

As a film geek,. that shit would be fascinating to compare and contrast.

In all fairness, I think I’m literally just thinking back to that highly snarky October article where the entire “news” was that Elon Musk was shitposting on Twitter asking people to send him memes.

Damn, that time has flown.

Pointing out that this website has a longstanding history of getting irrationally butthurt over Elon Musk engaging in completely inconsequential Twitter shitposting doesn’t make me a billionaire bootlicker.

Certainly, we can’t help but point to relentless encouragement as a key factor in the growth of whatever toxic skull rot is currently festering in the brain of car company CEO/lazy meme regurgitator Elon Musk....

There are numerous very legitimate reasons to criticise Elon Musk and the annoying cult of personality surrounding him, but god fucking dammit does this website have it out for him literally just because he’s a world-famous billionaire who likes to act like a harmless goofy fratboy every once in a while.

A lot of them are already in the TRARHOF too.