Again, the show is not “running away from the original series”, it’s engaging with its flaws. The things you keep pointing out as problems are features, not bugs. You are supposed to wonder how the Federation can be the bastion of goodness and righteousness and harmony, because (take it from me as someone who is…

AV Club commentors have been “the worst” for the past few weeks I’ve found. Can’t even read the articles because I have to fight reading the comments and all the bitching.

Speaking of better communication on the subway, I’d like to take this post as an occasion to thank the car full of commuters who yelled and waved their hands enthusiastically last week to make sure I knew not to sit down in some weird brown liquid that had amassed on one of the seats. And though I ultimately did…

I don’t believe they’re even speaking English. I always feel like Charlie Brown.

you obviously didn’t read the article - they did jump in with both feet, and talk to tons of people. When the people got their courage up (good!) they went to the NYT and not Jezebel...and that’s nothing to blame Jezebel for.

TBH it’s a much better watch than Z solely due to the relative lack of filler from trying to not outpace the manga.

Nah. If you’d rather not condemn based on rumors, cool, but commenters didn’t leave it at that. Instead, they lambasted the Jezebel staff for trying to substantiate those rumors. Those commenters deserve shit for that.

The pervasive assumption that we weren’t talking to victims who preferred to stay anonymous and doing the legwork behind the scenes while the above piece details all of the women Anna had been communicating with is very strange, but also not surprising.

It’s worse at the AV Club. Somehow instead of being about C.K. it’s become about how Katie Rife (an AV Club writer who did not stop talking about C.K.) is an awful journalist and how Kinja is the worst because now the AV Club has to share space with the horrid Jezebel.

What do you mean they didn’t ask follow-up questions? The follow-up questions they asked are documented in this very article.

66 stars?

Seriously? You are going to pretend that a major detail doesn’t fucking matter.

This comment gets to the heart of the problem. I remember comments not only saying they were withholding judgment but attacking the fact that questions were being asked and accusing Jez of a witch hunt against CK.

This article shouldn’t be about the fact that some of us lowly commenters refused to condemn someone based on information we didn’t have.

Imagine something with the sweeping scale and grandeur of Lord of the Rings, but set in the Star Wars universe. That’s the potential of the Old Republic time period. It’s a borderline no-brainer.

Thank you for the post. Jezebel pursued an open secret story inside of an industry that’s incredibly male dominated and where misogynist views (women aren’t and can’t be funny) still exist. The nature of CK’s comedy added icky complexity to the endeavor. Strong CK defenders (outside the comedy world) are to CK what…

So long as you are OK with that meaning powerful people will often get away with doing horrible things because they can keep victims from speaking out, it is more than your right to take that approach.

I’m a fan of Jen Kirkman and a diehard Jezzie. I admire CK’s work but have never been completely comfortable with him as a person, as I’d heard this shit before (which is rare, I usually have no idea what’s up with celebs). So...Confliction, party of 1.

“No, as I’ve said before, if there is a rumor they should have jumped in with both feet. They should have gone to female comics and male comics. They should have talked with workers at comedy clubs and festivals.”

So your attitude is that when there is an “open secret” about a sexually abusive person but no one is willing to go on the record about it, people should refuse to ask follow-up questions and everyone should just be silent and ignore it?