You could've saved us both some time if this article had been shortened to, "It is a remake, therefore I hate it (for reasons nobody in history has been able to properly articulate)."

She names the albums after how old she is… What could we really expect?

You repeating "believing in nothing" is far more antagonistic than him saying "religious nonsense".

Virgil never said he can do something magical, just that he knows how the magic works by having it happen to him.

If you're gonna straight-faced say I make no sense with "world of magic" about a show where 2% of the population magically disappears, I'm not sure how to continue this conversation.

At first I was thinking subversion but now I just think it's a funny byproduct of the plot and the casting choices. I mean, it's a magical town that people are flocking to from all over the world, where many people think themselves are magical or at least guided by magic. That might qualify as some sort of…

I don't think that was lampshading, I think that was them daring anybody to be silly enough to call a character the magical negro on a show that is named after a magical event, that takes place in a magical town in a magical world.

In a show where its entire premise is a magical event that leaves everybody weird, that doubles down in the second season by having the setting be a magical town. They're all magical negroes and honkies, just coming in the windows.

But they live in a world of magic. Like, literally 2% of the population magically disappeared (and maybe some ducks and beetles and shit but they dont keep a census) well before the Murphys were introduced. If the world is already magic there's not a magical negro, just a regular old black dude. It's like the…

I've wondered this for awhile: Do people actually not know what "literally" means? I always thought it was a willful exclamation point on an already exaggerated thing; hyper-hyperbole, if you will.

However, my actual feelings about remakes are the opposite of those I expressed in my original post!

Drinking the emperor's new kool aid…

TEAM HITLER TRI-ITLER!

What kind of crazy question is this?!? Don't you know remaking movies is literally worse than ten hitlers?!?!?!

That drove me bonkers. It's actually when I had to take a break from the show. I couldn't watch it without thinking about that prison fence, and why every character wasn't RIGHT THEN reinforcing it somehow, and lining it out pointy sticks, and digging a trench or moat and filling it with sharks with lazer beams and…

You've probably read the article by now, but Stevens actually studied with a dialect coach and visited India to make the whole thing more authentic, which is most likely why it DID play more authentically.

Aye, back a few seasons everybody was trying to calculate how long it would take to build a moat around the prison; some thought it feasible, some not. Regardless, the only thing any reasonable person would do is spend most of their free time on anti-zombies measures. Even if you had to dig the moat with your bare…

Really… They're really doubling down with this herd of zombies thing huh?

See, isn't it more interesting when you discuss the actual point?

Good god… So, is this white guilt eating its own tail or just a blatant disregard for colloquial etymology? Half and half?