All the best superhero movies have been the ones that just take the presence of the lead as a given and have them show up doing the things the whole audience already knows they do. This obsession with arcs and origins is exhausting.

Melodrama heroes are built to have infinite adventures. But to do that *they cannot change or grow*. Change and growth can happen to those *around* them, but Batman can't say "you know what? Dressing up like a bat and beating people up is silly."

Sherlock Holmes has no arc. It’s fine. When Conan Doyle gave him one, his audience insisted he couldn’t die. And back he came.

The Bond gang are facing the same problem.

The BBC have not "capitulated" in this war, that implies they're on a different side. What has happened is more "hoist upon their own petard."

what would a "similar, balancing programme about Kamala Harris" have even looked like? She didn't incite a riot, or attempt to overturn an election

Like saying there should have been a documentary about everyone else who lived on Fred West's road, for balance

You could see this in the years just after Corbyn's defeat, where everyone was doubling down on him and all his supporters being grotesque Hitlerian menaces because, if that wasn't true, they just put Boris Johnson in charge of the pandemic response over a load of silly bullshit.

"yeah ok this all sucks and is horrible and could have been avoided decades ago, but have you considered the people saying that were all lesbian yogurt weaving hippies??"

hi charlotte

Given you think her murderers were "radicalised" by Big Bad Phone, can you explain how "put Big Bad Phone in a sock for a few hours" is in any way a worthwhile solution to that? Is it a Magic Sock?