Snowpiercer is very good and I definitely enjoyed it, but I'm a little perplexed by how many "best of the year" lists I've seen it on, in that I thought it was more on-par with movies like Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Days of Future Past than vastly superior to them. (Granted, it would make my best of…

Wait, you lost me somewhere in the middle there … are you saying I'm not going to get my Mr. Studd™?

Yes! It's kind of mind boggling how they could reboot their entire continuity from scratch (except Batman and GL) and not only not have a roadmap laid out for where they actually wanted to go but actually end up needing to retcon things within a couple of months.

Pretty much the same, but the main reason its name is cursed among longtime fans instead of just fading into the mists of event comics gone by is that DC used it as the in-story explanation for a reboot of the entire universe.

Standard Flash fanwank: he was charging the water with the Speed Force (unconsciously, perhaps, since I don't think DCAU Flash could tap into it intentionally) so that the molecules of the water were sped up to counteract Cold's gun slowing them down.

I think he briefly became Andy Samberg's SNL Weekend Update "Get in the Cage" impression of himself and said "A man has to land a plane after God kidnaps half the human race? How am I not in that movie!?"

…from the man in question.

The main thing that bugged me about that movie was the main character's "I'm just trying to get back to my family!!" motivation. A movie that thinks it needs to give us a personal reason for the main character to help save the world is a movie about a character who desperately needs to get his head out of his own ass.…

It was kind of the opposite. I mean, I guess they're both about someone listing things that are actually unappealing as though they're selling points, but the underground music festival commercials are about listing random, surreal nonsense as though it were something a person might actually want to do, and the church…

Doesn't doing what a bad person would do make you a bad person?

I've often wondered what we're going to feel embarrassed about when we look back on the media of today that we currently have no idea could ever bother anyone. I'm not talking about shows that you watch and think "they're still doing the (racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. cliche here) thing in 2014?" but stuff that we…

Honestly, my first thought was that the "missing" 30 seconds probably contain some unfortunate racial material that the Norwegian National Library "lost" when they decided they'd rather get recognition for unearthing a long lost gem than reminding everyone how casually racist cartoons could be back then.

Really, no one's supposed to make out with Constantine then gut-shoot him, so it's not so much that she's a bad nun as that she's a bad person.

Everything I know about bad TV writing tells me that if that show runs long enough, it will eventually be revealed that the slap never actually happened.

I'm impressed, good sir. Excellent citemanship.

Arsenal and the Starling City Experience featuring Atom

I don't think "if the master orders his slave to commit a crime, both master and slave have to pay the price" is an "Oriental notion of honor." That's downright Biblical.

Like it? I love it.

I say we start a petition to reverse Olliver's death. Then when the show starts up again, we can feel like we accomplished something.

They made the point that even if they believed that Thea wasn't responsible for killing Sara, since her hands held the bow that did the job, they'd feel the need to kill her too. Presumably they'd frame it as some kind of unbreakable League of Assassins law, but the ultimate rationale would probably be to make sure no…