I’m one of those who really enjoys Muir’s prose, and I do think Gideon is cool, but even after two books I can’t shake the feeling that my internal jury is still out on the Locked Tomb. It’s one of those series that’s so represenative of my generation of spec fic writers that it may end up as either an exemplar or…

LINDA WE’RE ASKING

The disingenuousness of people acting like the use of “they” as a singular pronoun, which has been a part of our language forever, is somehow confusing is fucking obnoxious!

Committing your username to memory so I know to shit on you at every possible opportunity.

You tedious little shit.

When you snort all your meals and incidentals the studio gave you and have to stay at a hostel.

I continue to be amazed at the inability of men in general, and male comedians in particular, to fathom that maybe, just maybe, they might not be the intended audience for a performance. Their whole lives, every piece of media they’ve consumed has been targeted at them by media producers catering to their desires, so…

In case you haven’t seen the cancel culture comments from Bobcat Goldthwait

Exactly this. Anybody who thinks the current SCOTUS isn’t just dying to find a way to kill Roe while also pushing a maximalist view of firearm proliferation, regardless of whether the underlying rationales contradict one another, is a naive fool.

It’s a post-Trump world so we’re talking about a society that has earned the need to be talked down to.

Maybe! We have a society have a very bad track record of “Getting” satire. I’ve heard it called the Fight Club Effect. A brand of toxic masculinity that intentionally misinterprets satire as inspiration for their bad bbehaviour. See also the MRA movement co-opting the “Red Pill” from the Wachowskis’ Trans liberation…

Watchmen was a better speculative fiction exploration of race than that series could ever hope to be.

If you want to get technical, the South actually won in the long term. Mostly because Andrew Johnson was a racist jackass who hindered Reconstruction and did nothing to prevent former Confederates from launching coups on democratically elected governments throughout the South. The Compromise of 1878 basically…

As someone who enjoyed Swiss Army Man, I’m also of the school that there are no bad ideas if you can pull them off, but the number of people who could both pull this off and are willing to touch it would be small.

Am I the only one who didn’t see any version of this show (another showrunner, minority showrunner, black writing staff, etc.) working? An America where slavery still exists? Slavery DOES still exist, it’s just been rebranded. As the article mentions, no version of this concept is not #slaveporn

Dan Simmons is not that great. I tried two of his other novels after reading The Terror and they both sucked ass.

I loved S1 madly, and so am struggling to temper my disappointment with “Infamy” thus far. If anything, rather than clamoring for the monster, I want this thing to slow down MORE. The story of the internment is so rich and morally repugnant already, there’s plenty of horror to go around even without a scary demon…

It would work a lot better without the monster. The subject matter could produce a great drama on its own-there’s no need for it here.

I think this series is the best example of “Not everything has to be an anthology series.” As a limited series, The Terror was great. Don’t try to recreate that with a random story. If you really have a reason to tell “Infamy” as it’s own story, make it its own thing, one that isn’t tied to The Terror. I get wanting…

I fucking LOVED that they jumped eight months if only to skip past most of the pregnancy plotline. I hate watching characters be pregnant on shows (especially comedies) unless the show is explicitly about motherhood like Jane the Virgin is.