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Chuck was a fantastic show. It’s a really interesting aspect of the show that even though Chuck was initially presented as this underachiever, wasting his potential, the show never makes the glamorous spy life the goal. I think the Season 2 finale change was a really cool idea, but the thematic implications were, as this article points out, a lot more of an issue than might be initially assumed.

I wasn’t familiar with the study by Pennell and Behm-Morawitz. I think the fact that simply having female superheroes featured is absolutely not enough is an important rarely addressed issue. This article does a great job of comparing instances in which costuming has logically fit the character, the rare and mostly very recent few, and demonstrating their advantages over the sexualized alternatives. The Wonder Woman/Justice League example is great, no one objected to the outfits in the former, there was absolutely no need to switch to the illogical and uncomfortable looking latter.

Both James Franco and Kevin Spacey appeared in new trailers this week. As this article points out, Hollywood should absolutely not be giving them roles.