One of the things creators seem oblivious to is that any storyline can work if it’s written well, and generally audiences are responding not to the storyline but to its execution. You can have the same discussion about Dany in GoT - her going bad was fine! It was foreshadowed plenty. But the episode/season where it…

How am I going to get sick when I’ve just been tying these onions to my belt, which has been the style for some time now?

Nate is toxic as hell. He’s outwardly sympathetic but inside he’s nothing but rage and resentment. This is the same arc as Walter White, whose petulance and insecurity destroyed his family. Beware the “meek” man who lives under the impression he’s owed more and better. 

I suspect that Rupert giving Rebecca Prime the shares owned by Rebecca the Second in the funeral episode was to divest himself of a conflict of interest. While Sam Richardson is probably too big of a casting to be a false lead, I think that he and Rupert might be coinvestors in Casablanca, such that Nate and Sam may…

Considering the number of prisoners who are raped every year, I’m more worried about him glamorizing prison sex. Seems like it could be triggering to men who have been sexually assaulted while locked up, no?

You’re here, lecturing people who most assuredly are not here, on how best to deploy there creative energies? Ok. 

[God] also said that he would never give anyone permission to trespass

It’s OK to pull your weight!

Get out.

Jesus, what a creep your grandad there. You really should have told him to eat shit and die while he was alive, if you didn’t get the chance. It’s important not to let life go to waste with words unsaid. 

I was in my 20s when Buffy debuted and had already seen what a creator’s avatar can do to a show. Wesley Crusher became far less insufferable as time went on, however. I could never abide Xander; I found him petty, resentful, entitled to the attention and affection of the women around him, and boring as all get out.…

I really don’t see how he’s the heart of the scoobies - that’s frequently stated but never really shown. I mean, it’s shown I guess when he talks Willow down from destroying the world and when he lectures Buffy about the fight she’s in with Riley, but in the first scenario I can’t help but see that as Joss letting his…

I have a huge problem with this argument. It’s not that it doesn’t agree with the read on the scene, but rather the claim that it is somehow misunderstood. It’s not, like legitimately it is not, but rather this is a question how of one views dialogue and its implicitations.

Within the rubric you propose (which I agree with), I think “feminism” serves the purpose of an underdog narrative. It’s not that Whedon was a particularly strong feminist in his personal life or beliefs - certainly not in his professional behavior. But rather his approach to his craft demanded an underdog element and…

I think I was 6 when my mom first left me alone to wait in line for basic food in communist Poland while my dad was at work. It sucked and I cried the first couple times, but it really isn’t “endangerment” or “abandonment” or traumatizing. Mom later took me to stand in line for hours with her and after that I always ch…

Of course, of course, now I get this. If Black people like something, it becomes a racist object wypipo lob at them, like a watermelon reference.

Defund the police.

I don’t want to have to check on the seating situation before I head out to an afternoon movie that’s 3 weeks out from first run.

If I want to reform racist or corrupt firefighters

It’s just kinda galling to watch the people who’re freaking out over her (admittedly pathos-based-and-triggering) phrasing also praise Trump’s categorization of our undocumented immigration situation as “an invasion” (which is another pathos-steeped loaded label specifically designed to elicit an emotional response).