Strongly disagree. As you said, kids are going to hear the “seen and not heard” thing many times in their lives, it’s just inevitable. But, if the first time they hear that said is by someone who is a very obvious villain, someone who is clearly evil and untrustworthy, they’re going to associate that kind of line with…

And there’s the rub: Ursula is the villain, therefore it’s clear to children watching that Ursula is wrong when she sings these lines.

No one, apparently, has an issue with telling children it’s noble and good to abandon your family at sixteen to live with a guy you met at a party the day before, so long as he’s hot and from a wealthy family.

“It feels like inventing problems where they didn’t exist.”

I was going to wait until this season was done so I was watch it in one go, but decided against it because I love talking about it with everyone here (even though there’s like, no one left because they’ve fucked this site silly) and I really need to let this show digest every week. It’s an emotional roller coaster.

That walking in circles was great. Loved when NoHo had to run back to get into position. Who was NoHo texting? Fuches?

The Mario movie is a nonstop conga line of references to video games that came out decades ago. It brings back the “Mario is from Brooklyn” origin which hasn’t been canon since 1995 but which is popular among anyone who grew up watching the 1989 Mario cartoon series. At one point they do the DK Rap for no reason.

I think the problem people point out is that yes, there are Jewish actors and actresses in Hollywood, but it seems to be a consistent occurrence that when the role calls for an actual Jewish person they don’t cast a Jewish person.

I mean, sure, if we’re pretending that this conversation is purely about religious practices and ignoring the cultural aspect altogether. 

That was one of the points Silverman raised in the “Jewface” discussion, and I do think it’s an interesting one vis-à-vis “desirability” being seemingly at odds with Jewishness in Hollywood casting.

What bothers me is that Hollywood seems to have a rule that good-looking Jewish actors can’t play Jewish characters, and good-looking Jewish characters can’t be played by Jews. 

Isn’t it the usual issues about representation and employing minorities?

This whole series is her origin story. Getting powers is just the first part it. In the first Cap movie, it takes about 10 minutes real-time for Steve to get his powers and be able to control them well enough to chase down a Nazi assassin. But that one scene wasn’t about him becoming a hero, it was everything after…

God forbid tv characters enjoy the same things we do, like Cheetos.

I should know better than to treat this comment as a good-faith argument about Bruce vs Jen’s abilities, even though it’s been a tired talking point for a month now since the first preview came out. But it should be stated at least once in the thread that this isn’t what the show actually depicted.

Obligatory Canadian comment that Orphan Black is Canadian. Now that that’s out of the way: I think this show is a delight! I do not take issue with the character design whatsoever. The point Jen makes over and over again that women can’t really hulk out and have to learn to manage their rage lest they’re seen as…

if the indie dev runs their game’s subreddit they shouldn’t have any issues, as a mod you can even approve shadowbanned/spam comments if you want.

I’m not looking up and joining a new Discord server (or two) every time I have a question on a new topic. That’s absurd compared to just ‘searching the web’.

It really doesn’t. Sure, say you search up “lag fix” on Discord. Well, now you’ll have to spend upwards of 20 minutes combing through every time somebody mentioned those two words in a conversation ever. As well, those Discord answers don’t show in search engines, meaning you won’t be able to enjoy simply typing in…

Reddit makes a lot more sense than discord.  I’m not a huge reddit fan for video games because the upvote system just creates an echo chamber, but it’s better than a fancy live chat client.