I'm in Aillean's corner on Pepper. And in Sean's with the brain broken.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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amych - May 19, 2008 7:56:49 am PDT #5803 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2008 7:59:52 am PDT #5804 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
he thinks the movies all look flat-out Bad and he will never, never watch any of them because of their obvious stenchy badness.
JZ, Emmett is rapidly losing Cool Points.
JZ - May 19, 2008 8:00:17 am PDT #5805 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Sean, if you can't tell how completely lousy they are from the two-second clips on display during the ads for the completely awesome Lego game, I don't know how to explain it to you.
I think if we could just get him to stroll through the living room while we were in the middle of watching the scene where the bullwhip assassin is displaying all his flair and style until Indy gets bored and shoots him, Emmett will be good and hooked, but it'll take a little finesse because I reacted exactly the way you did and he now has an emotional investment in hanging onto his belief in their lousiness.
Frankenbuddha - May 19, 2008 8:02:56 am PDT #5806 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
...because I reacted exactly the way you did and he now has an emotional investment in hanging onto his belief in their lousiness.
*sniff* They grow up so quickly. He's acting just like a teenager, bless his heart.
Steph L. - May 19, 2008 8:03:24 am PDT #5807 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm just saying that in terms of sexism charges, Alfred doesn't really seem relevant. (Unless Pepper really IS Tony Stark's maid.)
Well, Alfred is a little more than just a butler-as-maid-equivalent.
But my point (as half-assed as it is) was that a lot of the charges of sexism come from the fact that Tony Stark's assistant is a woman; that is, it's demeaning to put a woman in the role of assistant to superhero guy. But I don't see how it's demeaning to have a woman as an assistant, but it's okay to have a man as ån assistant/butler/etc. (Alfred).
t edit I didn't try to type the weird "a" in that last sentence; I don't even know what I typed to make it so, but I'm leaving it in because it looks so cool.
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2008 8:04:18 am PDT #5808 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
People just shouldn't have assistants, Teppy. We should all be EQUAL.
Steph L. - May 19, 2008 8:05:53 am PDT #5809 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
People just shouldn't have assistants, Teppy. We should all be EQUAL.
Well, *my* Alfred would be a 20-something hotass, not an old British dude, but I wouldn't be objectifying him.
(Stop laughing!)
(It could happen!)
Ailleann - May 19, 2008 8:08:50 am PDT #5810 of 10000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Plus, no women work as assistants anymore. Clearly that's completely false. Oh wait.
Laga - May 19, 2008 8:40:38 am PDT #5811 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm not familiar with Iron Man comics but I was pretty upset with the way Mary Jane was portrayed in the Spider-Man movies. I consoled myself by thinking she must be an amalgam of MJ and Gwen Stacy but then they put Gwen in the last one and now I just hate Kirsten Dunst's MJ. In the comics she saves her own ass (and sometimes Peter's) repeatedly. I think movie Pepper is ten times more capable than movie MJ.
DavidS - May 19, 2008 9:28:35 am PDT #5812 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If you ever wondered what Jeremy Irons would look like as Snape here he is about 3 mins into this French and Saunders parody.