Recent content by Thorn

I just don't understand the dislike for Mako. It's so clear to me that, like Korra and Bolin, he's got a lot of growing up to do, and is terribly inexperienced in social nuance. We're meant to understand why Korra needed the encouragement and advice of an adult to assert herself romantically...

When I first watched the finale, I had assumed that, like Vultaire, Pumyra might be amenable to defecting to Mumm-Ra and aspiring to be a new Grune equivalent, seeing as she remained so volatile and ambivalent about Lion-O's approaches to conflict resolution, but the fact that she'd been a mole...

I'm just going to go ahead and completely agree with you here. Immediately succeeding Hamil in the role was a thankless job, and I honestly think some initially dodgy scripting and a character design I still loathe have eclipsed a genuinely good performance in people's minds. Richardson was...

Aw phooey, now I remember him. There was a spin-class joke about how he got out of the building so fast, right? It sucks that by making the narrative a little less of a sausage-fest, we trade a non-stereotypical Asian male for an Asian female that, in the offing, inevitably traffics in more...

See, I don't think Batman's giving a rationale, a logos. He's expressing a personal ethos instead. See, slippery slope-ism is a logical fallacy. But do you know where it actually occurs, in defiance of logic? Abnormal psychology, particularly in pathologies of otherwise extremely controlled...

I've read the comics concerned, but its been a long time. I was seven when Jason died and twenty-two when I properly "got into" comics so that's a heapin' helpin' of irreverence, right there. I was delighted with this movie because I saw it as dispensing with a tremendous amount of extraneous...

I've been trying unsuccesfully to find an image reference for comparison...Mac Gargan isn't shown in civvies much, I gather.

See, what I thought was compelling about the idea is that it does the same sort of thing that was done with Venom, redeems a flat character by making his conceptual metatextual flaws into character text and subtext. Comics: Wow, Venom is so cool, stalking Spidey that way...but his focus is so...

My sister had this weirdly compelling idea that they could soften Cletus up into a villain fanboy-turned-wannabe a la the protagonist of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. (Even to the point of having him voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, who's always so much more fun when he's playing evil) He could...

I don't know, I find the whole Overcoming the Monster-esque stock-plot structure to be confining in its self-containment and narrow in its focus. It doesn't allow for the world to be wider, for Spidey to be just a green kid with extraordinary luck and not the one fated to defeat the villain. It...

Two words: summer school. It could be actual summer school, like Peter and Gwen getting college credits for labwork at ESU, or more metaphorical, a "how I spent my summer vacation," as it were. Package the arc as "summer reading list" or something like that. Smart kids like Peter keep learning...

Manfredi seems to be a leader in prison, and has shown a willingness to work with Tombstone's flunkies, the Enforcers. This may fortell a permanent shift in loyalties on their part. And, banking on his manipulative skills, Otto is still sitting pretty in Ravencroft, with the Tinkerer, Mysterio...

For whatever its worth, I'd heard that in the event of a pickup, the gang war would be revisited. After all, nobody "won" except Gobby, and he's (presumably) off the table for now. So, there's a power vacuum again. All the parties are hamstrung in different ways, but I doubt that'll curttail any...

Do you mean it'd be simpler to integrate her as a recurring character? I suppose it'd be easier for a girl with merely an uncanny resemblance to hide in plain sight, rather than a boy who's a functional doppleganger. I think it may be a little worse than that. By "Growing Pains" he's not just...

*googles* Seriously? That sounds kind of awesome, goofy memory-transplant aside. It's so rare that a female character is portrayed with a smart mouth like Peter's. (Gwen's burn of Flash was so righteous, by the way. More of that, please.) True, but if she shows even the slightest bit of...