My point is, the viewer choosing to hit fast forward or walk out of the theater or whatever is entirely their choice, something the content provider doesn’t have a part in. But when I’m bingeing a Netflix show and it automatically skips the titles on the next episode, that’s not something I did, that’s something the…

I’m surprised it’s even legal to skip over broadcasting a title sequence that contains the cast and crew credits. I mean, those credits are a contractual agreement, part of the compensation the cast and crew are entitled to. Yes, viewers have always had the choice to walk out of the theater or turn off the TV when the…

Michael is a valid feminine name, as others have mentioned. It’s one of many feminine or unisex names that started out as masculine, though not as common for females as other names like Ashley, Kelly, Robin, Sidney, etc. or formerly masculine names that are now almost exclusively female, like Beverly, Shirley, or…

Bryan Fuller likes to give his female leads masculine-sounding names for some reason — Georgia “George” Lass in Dead Like Me, Jaye Tyler in Wonderfalls, Charlotte “Chuck” Charles in Pushing Daisies.

“but only Nicholas Meyer and Joe Menosky have any previous experience working on Star Trek.”

Because that’s her past, not her present. She has a whole journey from being trapped in an abusive relationship with the Joker to breaking free of it and becoming her own independent woman. io9 just covered it here:

I agree about Whitmire’s Kermit — not just in performance, but in writing. My problem with the movie The Muppets from a few years ago was that it reduced Kermit to a passive sad sack who saw every slight setback as a reason to give up and needed the new character Walter to repeatedly convince him to keep trying — a…

I can see why they’d pre-record the Muppets number even if the rest was live, given the complexity of the performers having to work the puppets and all.

“As opposed to, you know, those other types of genies.”

Just as long as they keep the Fred Steiner theme music.

A shame to hear it. The trailer looked interesting.

Or maybe she just pretended not to speak English because it gave her an excuse to avoid having a conversation with him.

I don’t think it’s about American audiences, since plenty of US TV shows have openly LGBT characters these days. From what I gather, the problem is that big-budget feature films these days can’t succeed without a lot of overseas investment and overseas box-office profits, and a lot of their investors and target…

I think the key point, though, is that she wanted there to be more than one character. If there’s just one token character representing a minority, there’s pressure on them to represent the whole group. Any flaws they had could be taken as impugning the entire category of people, so the safest path is to idealize…

I didn’t take “allow them a Lucy!” to mean “make one of them a main character.” Earlier in the letter, Glickman kept talking about how “even Lucy” counted as a good character, implicitly saying that she was a good character despite her abrasive qualities as the strip’s primary antagonist. And the line came after her…

You should add that the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is leaving Netflix on March 7.

The fact that the only person they could make Bannon look good in comparison to is a terrorist leader is not exactly a glowing endorsement.

My preferred grilled-cheese recipe is a slightly simpler version of one I think I got from Alton Brown on Good Eats: I use cheddar and Swiss cheese, tomato slices, dijon mustard, and black pepper and I brown it with olive oil.

“skeptical that spots he never sees could have any effect.”

He refers to himself in the third person? He really is a comic-book supervillain!