Yep, I was struck by how mature its themes remain, even to this day, for a kids show. The Genosha and The Cure arcs are friggin great, and I don’t even think a studio would have the guts to do the Friends of Humanity in a cartoon today. I think the series drops a bit once it gets into all the confusing Shi’ar stuff,…

Excuse me, while I perform zoomies on the floor like a dog, before watching this.

Amazing. Every word you just said is wrong.

Probably because an 8-hour series is a much better match for the amount of content in a lot of novels than a 2-hour movie.

The better question is “why do we keep trying to cram an entire book into two hours and then being surprised when it doesn’t work?”

A lot of the time when a movie adaptation doesn’t work it’s because they cut the wrong stuff out, or too much. But to get a good sized novel into a 2 hour movie you have to cut out a lot, like 75%. The nice part about a TV adaptation is you don’t.  Now you could still screw it up. But at least the format is no longer…

It’s because the people who green light these things, for all their blind spots and problems, understand Sturgeon’s Law and that it means you have to try anything a bunch of times in order to get a few good things.

I agree getting an Oscar is neat, but it won’t make me like or dislike an actor or movie for that matter. Also I will say thing cause I do on any article about Robbie, she is a fucking ray of sunshine always a total delight.

she’ll apparently be more of a hardened badass than the more uplifting and optimistic version of the character that Melissa Benoist played on The CW’s Supergirl.

“Stop acting like you’re under attack!” he said, logging on in defense of the rich entertainer.

I’d say declaring “I’m a terf and proud” in the midst of seismic anti-trans laws denying basic human rights getting passed is advocating for something incredibly terrible, but hey that’s just me.

Freedom of speech protects his right to be a bigot and a bully, and it protects our rights to call Dave Chappelle a piece of shit hack. Shit cuts both ways. 

He isn’t out there advocating for anything terrible, and he’s definitely a person who would not stand for actual harm being done to anyone.

Out of all the GotG, Star Lord is the blandest of the bunch and never seemed to develop as a character. His arc in every film is just him running into danger where the only reason he’ll survive is because the actions of his allies usually ends up saving him at the last second. Plus he’s the one that ruined the plan to…

I was quite happy to see the game selling pretty well again digitally over the last 45 days in my country. It was at 15 or 16 on the PS charts. Hopefully it starts to get looked at more positively.

I absolutely adore this game. I had it on PS4 but couldn’t play Burning Shores because it was a PS5 exclusive. Finally got a PS5 and immediately got the Burning Shores DLC - only for them to announce the Complete Edition two days later.

People often say “underrated” when they actually mean “overlooked.” In other words, the game didn’t receive the mainstream recognition or success some people thought it deserved.

I’ve been waiting a long time for this one, they notably released it on PS4 and PS5, and then announced later on that the expansion pack wasn’t coming to PS4. Which absolutely sucked. But I like the game, and I’m excited to replay the main story and get to the new content.

Sure but the first one got overshadowed by Zelda and the next one by Elden Ring.

I found part 2 a remarkable game - harder and more uncomfortable than the first, but in a lot of ways better, and a much deeper and more complex reflection on humanity than the first.

IIRC it was actually The Colbert Report’s Twitter account—which Colbert himself had nothing to do with—tweeting out “I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever” without the context of the original joke, and Suey Park and…