Oh, FFS! What is wrong with people? I’ve disagreed with casting before, but my reaction to that is, “Not who I would have gone with.” If it’s truly awful (like, say, casting John Wayne as Genghis Khan), then I’ll probably roll my eyes and decide not to watch it. But I’d never yell at an actor or actress about them…

Exactly this. DC has mismanaged the Titans so badly. They had a property that really clicked with kids, that led them into DC comics in a way that I don’t think Marvel had at the time. And they botched it. They made Starfire into... Well... not someone especially child appropriate. They made Dick Grayson say “Fuck…

The public is. The markets are less so. And litigators are even less forgiving. If Iger thinks that admitting that is going to put him into a position that’s even slightly actionable or that might hurt a call, then he’s not going to do that, even if he’s obviously in the wrong.

Only if he’s already a producer. The film isn’t in production yet, is it?

That sounds like the smart move for Disney. “We’ve removed him as director, as is consistent with our company values.” Then keep him on contract, pay him as a “creative consultant” and give him a writing credit, but basically hire in a director who’s going to go along with the flow and let Gunn provide “input.” That…

Totally agree. Howard had a very small role in the first movie. War Machine, even in the later films, is a smaller character than Hawkeye. Bautista’s Drax is in the damn commercials for Vol 2, a lot. The character has a deep relationship with Star Lord, Rocket, and Mantis especially, but even with the others. There’s…

The difficulty I have with this is that if you want to actually encourage a free exchange of ideas, you have to have mediation. If you have a platform where threats, bullying, and other malign behaviors can be used to coerce the silence of some voices, then you don’t actually have a place free of bias. You have a…

Except that the 1st Amendment only gives you the right to speech. It doesn’t compel the obligation to publish. If I own a printing press, I don’t have to print Alex Jones’s leaflets just because he has a right to write whatever nonsense he wants. This is the same thing. Twitter is making an active choice to give a…

You do know that’s more or less something that Alex Jones actually did, right?

You are allowed the right to say whatever you want, no matter how pants shittingly stupid and moronic it is (subject to certain things that are beyond the pale entirely). No one is obliged by that right to give you a platform to say it. Your right to swing your fist only extends up until the point that it conflicts…

Now you’re just being hurtful.

Not saying what I want. Just saying what I expect. But... Ouch. No. I mean... If Bautista is out and Gunn’s script isn’t used, I probably will skip it, but... No. Just. No. That hurt. Take your star from my bleeding chest.

Only if they also ignored his actions.

More than apologized. He’s actually worked to make things better. He’s not just saying “Oh, that was bad.” He’s actively supporting people like Selma Blair. Words are cheap, but apparently, they mean more to some than actually doing something to make the world a bit better or to help someone who needs it.

Have you read the support offered for him by people like Selma Blair? In the time between those tweets (which are terrible, I have read them) and today, James Gunn has apologized, admitted he was wrong, and worked to make amends. He’s helped, in part, to bring the Hollywood abuse scandals to light and supported at…

I think it speaks to the fact the Gunn has pretty obviously changed. If he hadn’t, he’d be speaking out. But he’s not. He’s taking the consequences, even if they’re dumb consequences from all sides. Note to Disney, it’s not hard to make a giant company look terrible... And between Gunn’s class and Bautista’s loyalty,…

Yeah. 6 movies released, in production, or in preproduction in 2018. And a little film in 2017 called Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales... Let’s see... Who released that... Just a second. Let me check the notes here... Oh. Disney. Johnny Depp is still getting work, from Disney. I’m not saying that you…

And yet, he keeps getting hired by Disney and is far more visible than Gunn. Your assertion that there’s a fundamental market force at work here that means Disney had to fire James Gunn is just that, an assertion. One with scant evidence, really. What happened to him is a dry run for other targets, as has been…

I’d love to see the Gray/Not Gray algorithm. I use a burner and expect to be in the gray because of it. I kind of like it. It means I have to try to post things that people engage with in order for them not to be gray, which encourages me to be a little more thoughtful. Usually. 

Yeah, that’s a bad argument. The Corporate Mouse keeps going back to the well with Johnny Depp.