Processing this, I come back to this line from Batman Beyond: The Return of the Joker that feels quite apt right now in honor of Mr. Conroy and what he meant to many of us:

This is, at its core, the true horror of generational abuse: while we can connect the chain of cause and effect between Bojack’s upbringing and his various crimes against others and even see how he was to some extent doomed to be the person he is as a result of that abuse and neglect, at the same time, none of this…

I mean, the intro this season shows him falling into a black abyss this time. I’d say the metaphor is pretty damn obvious.

The fact that it was a Horse(ey) service hit me a lot more than I was expecting, given how recently the revelation of BoJack’s inner horse-loathing has been. It’s a very powerful thing, to genuinely open oneself up in that way to something you’re both terrified and resentful of.

While Pickles isn’tMy favorite character, one thing I do appreciate about the way she’s being characterized is that the writers aren’t using her as an excuse to punch down on millennial culture. Yeah, she has her online squad and does Instagram influencer tomfoolery, but there’s an awareness that, had these things…

You know. It wasn’t until just now that I got the gag around using the word *Thunder* room instead of *Panic* room.

The character arc I’ve been most surprised by is Mr Peanutbutter. There’ve been glimpses that his dopey facade covers something darker but the last two seasons have really spotlit it. In ways, it’s been an unspoken critique of the intersection of classical toxic masculinity and positivity culture that seems common in…

No. Just your standard, garden variety troll. Maybe a Russian bot. Who even knows or cares anymore...

That ain’t the first Amendment. If you were any kind of actual American, you’d know that the First Amendment only applies to the government, not private citizens or corporations. They can limit the speech of anyone they like, especially if it’s hateful and disgusting.

This is the most infuriating aspect of these people. They legitimately believe that they are some kind of Everyman hero and not the suit wearing stooge from a bad Captain Planet rerun.

I think the problem with this argument is that it makes secretly unspoken assumptions:

I wonder if anyone’s done a study on how much money remote workers put in to the places they squat. If they’re an economic burden I can certainly see the problem and am no sure threatening to “take your business elsewhere” is much of a concern to them.

Seeing as Todd started the season living on Mr. Peanutbutter’s sofa, he actually is for the context of this article.

If you went through a similar process, it would be easy to immediately start from the “role” of feeling you’re a “good” or better person, and act accordingly. Both Rick and Morty conformed to that at first, which makes sense. It was only after living in these minds for some time that the more negative sides of the…

I feel like that was one of the subtle messages that they didn’t make explicit: we all have visions of what the “ideal” and “toxic” versions of ourselves are. But personalities simply aren’t granular and simple as that. Start rearranging and customizing personalities like Lego or RPG stats and things rapidly get...…

It’s also easy to see how quickly the show could have never evolved beyond its origins. A lot of shows begin from the same sort of post-modern, nihilistic POV. It’s easy in hindsight to catch elements of greatness to come, but it certainly wasn’t inevitable by any stretch.

The only ‘good’ thing that makes Trump a better option than Pence is that Trump is so blatantly odious that it’s easy to get a resistance going. Pence is a rank and file conservative, the kind we know sucks but that we don’t effectively rally against especially if we are so grateful that Trump is gone that we’ll…

It wouldn’t surprise me if that was the plan all along: Rather than try to get a man like Pence elected, bring him in on the coattails of the demagogue that the Republican base has begging for for years, let him make all the truly awful legislative decisions they *know* that the country is going to hate, let the…

Of course not. To them, literary analysis is the purview of feminist killjoys and milquetoast betas. That’s why these people go on about ‘plain talk’ or ‘telling it like it is’. They lack the barest mental capacity to think beyond anything but the most obvious, superficial level, unless they’re using one of their…

Nothing puts the lie of these people having a problem with ‘political correctness’ than when they get publicly called out as racists, liars, and generally despicable, hateful wastes of humanity. Especially in their own forums. Suddenly then they’re all about curating their safe spaces and wanting to call for a more…