Must everything foreign to the USA be filtered through White USA-ian Aesthetic? I hope they don’t take such an artistically barren approach. The Death Note adaptation could have been interesting if they had explored the dead frickin’ obvious context of a privileged white kid carrying out his brand of vigilante justice…

You mean in settler “rural US” right? There are is an obvious group of persons who meet the criteria you described. One can argue for why this adaptation is a bad idea without erasing the indigenous population.

I was thinking more along the lines of fare like The Twelve Kingdoms but, as ever, YMMV.

I can’t believe this place doesn’t have a “block user” option.

Yes. Before, I was happy to hit the main site and look at everything before going through Newswire. Now I subscribe to the film tag via RSS. If nothing from there sparks interest I don’t visit.

Eh, NM.

The movie unthinkingly assumes at least some degree of Abdul’s wonder at his good fortune, and only makes the mildest nods toward its troubling circumstances....

It wouldn’t even matter if he blamed alcoholism because alcoholism does not make one sexually assault another person—at most it’s established as an exacerbating factor. I’d advise you and everyone to actually do some reading because so many of us are woefully uninformed about it.

Maaaaaaan, I cannot. He has never apologised. He’s never owned his actions. He said he didn’t remember but he can “only believe”, he “takes their claims seriously” and “begs forgiveness”. But let’s be overly generous and interpret that as an apology and acceptance of responsibility. The next step is to undergo…

Jesus. Like where is the block button for all these people over here on this thing. Reading the responses to your comments on this topic has been painful.

Every time. This is the toxic sides to men’s “unbreakable” friendships that doesn’t get highlighted enough.

It’s pretty disgusting, especially when one considers, if this AV Club article is correct, that the perpetrator has yet to even acknowledge that he did anything wrong in the first place. He “doesn’t remember”. Yet here we are agonising over his rehab.

Oh, I see...I can post but everything else works as if I were a different user—I can’t edit my posts and in the drop down menu it asks me to follow myself. I tried to connect the account to my Twitter as instructed but it didn’t work. To help desk I go, I guess....

Wait a minute. I posted as my av club legacy account but was somehow switched back to the Kinja account immediately after I posted....? This...what. *confusaled*

Let’s see if this works...

I really hope Amazon doesn’t go that route. There are so many more interesting stories happening (and have been happening) in fantasy right now beyond the tired faux medieval Europe setting. Or even stories that within that did more interesting character work than GoT (which never impressed me, but I stopped after…

Same. I’m legacy and grey so I barely give a fuck these days.

How do I get out of pending permanently? Is there absolutely no way for this to happen for legacy account holders beyond the theoretical day when we’ll be able to claim an account?

The strong female historical figures in actual medieval European history make the GoT characters look like a joke. Besides that, dirtside’s comment was about how comparatively complex and human the male characters get to be ie they get to be more than stock characters—serious leader/warrior etc. The Tyrell women were…

You’ve been ungreying all my comments. You’re an absolute dear. Thanks so much for volunteering for such tedious work.