“Does fine” is kind of a low bar, though. This is a disappointing “upgrade.” I’d have seriously considered it if it came with more powerful guts / 4k output. I definitely won’t bother with this iteration. 

This is why I struggle to understand fan remakes. So much effort and love poured into something that will likely be served a takedown notice the moment you share it with the world.

Better to funnel that passion into an original IP, I think. 

I totally get WHY people ship. Queer people crave representation and to see themselves reflected in the stories they love.

I just am at a point, personally, where I’m tired of movies relying on “well they could be gay in your head if you want” instead of having the guts to have them be gay on screen. Marvel should have…

I tried “gay rights” so I could say that “my controller said gay rights” and it told me it was not allowed. But then I tried it again a minute later and said it was allowed. I ultimately didn’t purchase it, so not sure what the reality is... But I probably will at some point. 

Let me guess, you’re straight? 

It’s kind of inexcusable that we didn’t get even a gay background character until 22 films in, and he got 3 lines and had no superpowers. 

Exactly. It’s sad that we have to twist ourselves into knots imagining that characters could secretly be gay outside of the canon of a film because filmmakers rarely deliver on openly, clearly queer characters.

The old women were the only purposeful part to me.

But I’m also pretty tired of queer subtext. Give me queer text or GTFO. 

It’s 2021 though, why are we still doing “queer subtext”?

People can find meaning wherever they like in art, and that’s great, but of course nothing compares to filmmakers actually telling a story featuring gay characters, instead of just characters who “could be gay in someone’s head canon.”

As much as I ultimately enjoyed Wandavision, it was letdown by a combination of its structure and release schedule. Had the first two episodes been the premiere, it would have worked a lot better.

There wasn’t enough “something else is going on” in the first couple episodes alone to make it compelling. I stuck with…

This “I’m fearless” schtick is a favorite of some of the worst Republicans (Greene, Gaetz) and it makes me laugh every time. They posture like they’re embattled warriors when they’re actually standing up to a threat that doesn’t exist. It’s like me announcing “I won’t let the yetis get away with this!”

SO brave.

He doesn’t “believe in science.” We know this because he donated to a man who said windmills give you cancer, stared directly at a solar eclipse and inquired about the possibility of disinfectant being injected into the body as a treatment for COVID.

That 500k donation was, however, a great tax credit!

Donating to much needed children’s charity doesn’t just erase donations that harm other groups of people, though. It doesn’t give you a free pass for also supporting shitty politicians.

You can applaud the St. Jude stuff and criticize the other stuff.

They’re as “recognizable” as wet flour is “recognizable” as bread.

Why do you guys assume that every opinion is worthy of equal weight and respect?  They aren’t. 

There are few things more insulting to the intelligence than conservatives saying they love their queer fans while pouring money into causes that directly harm their queer fans.

What you love is your queer fans’ money, bud. 

This is sort of the issue with these kinds of “shitty person” scandals, I think. No one is perfect. Most of us (likely all of us) have done or said something that hurt someone else or made them feel less than in some way. Person A is accused by Person B of being terrible, and Person C pops up and says NOT SO FAST, B!

Of…

Kind of a digression but I always find it funny when the tweets used as examples of online criticism in articles about bad behavior always have just a handful of likes. Like the one suggesting Legend might be equally shitty has THREE likes. I’m not sure why that particular take deserves a central place in an article…