The argument is usually that affirmative consent is unwieldy, unnatural, and kills the mood in its acquisition. "What am I supposed to do? Get it in writing?" is a common refrain from critics (of whom I usually consider myself one of).

You're right. News does not have to equal "personal crusade". It does in this case, though, as portrayed in the episode. What was being contested wasn't the subject being pursued (which is the typical investigative journalist vs. corporate media fight), but simply the right to use the word "retard".

Thank you.

1) Are we supposed to disagree with an elementary school paper requiring approval from the school/principal?

Half the movie's premised on Jake Gylenhaal's character being a shitty detective. I mean shitty even by TV/movie detective standards. Roger Deakins cinematographied the fuck out of Prisoners, though. That highway "chase" (though again, more evidence of shitty police work) justified the entire movie for me.

You inadvertently introduced me to a three minute commercial about a unicorn shitting ice cream. Thank you. #SquattyPotty

Fair enough.

While I actually agree with Jeselnik's point, his schtick isn't any less politics-signaling or self-righteous.

Oh, step off the cross, you poor martyr.

I don't see why Boyhood ought to be praised for the meta-conceit of the main actor aging like in any long-running television series if the actual story and character aren't interesting.

You'd rather believe multiple actors of talent couldn't bring life to the meaty material of George Lucas' stellar writing than believe the same person who wrote such horseshit as "I wish I could just wish away my feelings!" perhaps was sitting on his ass fretting over the CGI rather than giving good direction to his…

When Samuel L. Jackson and Liam Neeson are both forgettable, it's the director's fucking fault.

That applies to New Hope. Perhaps I'm not considering it in context, but I also can't step into the ol' Delorean and experience the high of that 1977 premiere.

The original trilogy only contains one-and-a-half great movies (Empire Strikes Back and the Luke/ Vader bits of Return of the Jedi). Everything else is mediocre.

To the entire world: Shut the fuck up.

It's difficult to delineate real world implications from a wacky cartoon satire, but is shit-canning an officer who showed a dangerous lack of trigger-discipline and shot a six year old (twice) really all that unreasonable?

Your second point borders on being a non-sequitur. I don't see how calling the police too often results in them strapping up with heavy artillery. Wouldn't the "boy who cried wolf" effect cause the opposite to happen?

It's enlightening to see there's no level of celebrity so meager as to not warrant creepily-intimate dislike and practical cyber-stalking. Why are some losers this upset by the alleged indiscretions of some other guy's ex?

Not to mention the Lloyd scene.

TD season 2 was bad because of Nic Pizzolatto's presence as much as because of Fukunaga's absence. The dialogue was laughably bad. The plot was convoluted rather than complex. The "hard-boiled" tone slipped into indulgent parody.