there's a very good reason for that.

Welcome to the very first post of "A million days is worth one good laugh." If you're here, it's likely because you like comics, television, music, and movies, because I like those things and want to talk about them. (There's a lot that falls under that umbrella, and chances are I enjoy at least one form of it or another. Unless it's a sitcom. I have little patience for sitcoms.)

Because I like that stuff, I have fairly strong opinions about what I like to see from that stuff, which includes, among other things:

1. Treatment of differing ethnic, racial, gender, and sexuality groups from the author's with fairness and respect, instead of marginalization and/or "whitewashing" out of fear, ignorance, stupidity, or a combination of all three.
2. Decent writing and obvious comprehension of the restraints and/or cliches of the genre they fall under.
3. Characters, motifs, themes, or styles I like.

It's not a difficult list, nor a particularly long one, and yet it seems somehow deceptively simplistic, as the list of works in all forms of media that don't meet those criteria remains longer than the list of works that do. Especially the first one. I don't have particularly rigid standards beyond those three - I have some general rules I like to see followed but am perfectly willing to break if the story makes it worth it, sure, but those three are set in stone and, if broken, usually lead to me dropping the work in question like a live grenade and running in the opposite direction.

I expect any comments to at least acknowledge I've established these criteria already, and if you're going to take issue with them take issue with the fact that I've set them in place as criteria, not that I'm applying them.

More content to follow later. Promise. Content that follows will also be less dogmatic, but the ground rules needed to be set in place and I didn't feel like equivocating much.