That’s funny - Star-Lord is literally the first person I would’ve named.

I mean, the Academy has increasingly struggled to recognize comedy. I have no doubt a lot of the prestige drama picks (like Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon) are deserving. But I do get the impression that’s part of the problem here.

He didn’t leave Apple because he was bad at his job. He parted ways with Apple because they didn’t want him criticizing China and AI.

I demand more Matt Murdock/Jessica Jones!

Hot take: I think Iron Fist was a bit underrated.

I am sad for you that you cannot appreciate what a joyful movie it is.

Um, excuse me - Search for Spock is a wonderful movie that is wildly underrated and only dismissed because it’s an odd-numbered film.

There’s a difference between planning-it-out-in-advance and seat-of-your-pants writing. Both have value; neither is inherently better than the other. The idea that something needs to be all pre-planned with no room for the other is creatively stifling. A lot of great writing has happened because something happened by…

I’ve dipped my toes into prestige tv, but by and large it isn’t my thing. I have no problem with it existing - what I dislike is this idea that now suddenly everyone has to behave like its prestige tv.

Oof, SNW is just so *crowded.* On top of the main cast, they have Sam and Jim Kirk, Spock’s mother, T’Pring, Pelia, Batel..now they’re introducing even more of the TOS cast.

To which rule? Of having more episodes? Of having to work within a budget?

I would also add to the argument that the current model is bad for creativity. Everything has to be planned out with surgical precision, and there’s no room (or time allotted) for chasing the unplanned and the unexpected.

That’s not a counterpoint. It’s just evidence of an entirely different problem where networks hold onto a show long past the point of expiration because once upon a time it was a hit.

Community often operated on a budget and let us know it. Community knew it could lock its main cast plus a guest star in a room for 20+ minutes and spin gold.

They’ve also overcompensated with episode runtime that run an hour or more, which can make for some screwy pacing. I don’t miss ads, but I think there’s value to having restrictions.

It also gives us more down time to spend with the characters when not everything is high-stakes drama. It fleshed out the characters and world, and made the bigger crises matter more.

I would argue almost the exact opposite. A lot of genre shows were at their best because they had to be creative working within a limited budget. And a lot of great episodes were the one-offs and standalones.

I’m of the opinion that Peak TV is behind us and this is one of the reasons why. I have a hard time investing in a lot of new shows these days because they run for only 8-10 episodes, there’s so much time between seasons, and anything with potential is canceled after two seasons because streaming executives won’t take…

I honestly don’t go through games at a fast enough clip to feel like any kind of service would be worth it. I’d like to chalk it up to getting older, but I think I might have always been that way. I don’t know...I just like to savor my games.

I’m pretty slow at getting through games, and usually only buy maybe a couple dozen a year. And owning my own copy (especially physical over digital if I can - I have patiently waited all these months for the BGIII disc release) is a big deal for me. So I just really can’t see the appeal of something like GamePass for…