I don't dispute that! I just had a different reaction to that episode, and made a good-faith effort both in the review and here to explain and bring some context to what is ultimately always just going to be a subjective reaction, as is the case when approaching any work of art. As I've made clear a few times now, I…

Right, I get all that. I'm just generally of the mindset these days that depicting a sexist male fantasy, even to deconstruct it, is still putting another sexist male fantasy into the world, and there's a fairly high degree of difficulty in pulling that off in a way that really justifies going back to that well,…

I actually left the gender ambiguous in the review, then remembered that both the Stans' and Dipper and Mabel's last name is Pines. So while it's conceivable that Dipper and Mabel's last name comes from their mom's side (or that both parents' maiden name was Pines, a la Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt), by far the most…

Shawn Bradley was at least 1.75x as athletics as Georghe Muresan, though. 1.75x!

I tend to think that any character that presents as male or female can be interpreted as such — whatever Giffany's story-specific function or in-universe role, she's still going to be seen by the audience as another female character, and the "crazy girlfriend" storyline she got put it in is a pretty strongly gendered…

I agree that's probably what they were going for, but I think this was one of those instances where the meta-commentary becomes kinda functionally indistinguishable from the thing it's supposedly deconstructing, and the nuance of the point gets lost. Again, no biggie.

It did all right by Soos, but I was really uncomfortable with the gender politics with respect to Giffany. Don't think for a second there was anything malicious about it, but I think they fumbled their handling of that character. I wouldn't even necessarily say I hated it, honestly, but it just disappointed and…

This was the least likely possible way for me to find out Dan Quisenberry was dead.

Yeah, but he wouldn't be doing so to verify that he's not Eric Stonestreet.

Maybe blind spot was the wrong term? My knowledge is just a bit more superficial for 80s movies than the other decades, I'd say.

I've seen all of those except Gandhi, Color Purple, and Roger Rabbit. Let me clarify a bit, because a lot of those you listed I would take for granted that anyone reasonably into movies (not even "film," just movies) is going to have seen, and my sense is that something like Starman is kind of in that next tier — not…

You know, if there's any episode of Gravity Falls I hate, it's that one, but I wouldn't really say Melody was the issue with it, and I wouldn't exactly mind seeing her again. But yeah, I'd totally forgotten she existed, and I'm not exactly waiting anxiously for her return.

For the record, is 27 *really* that young?

Right, the NBA is easily a fun enough league to be able to own the whole "Nobody here gives a crap, but come see them do some cool shit!" thing. A Pro Bowl reconfigured to be silly and entertaining would presumably be an unforgivable transgression against the Shield.

I feel like the amount of having fun in the NBA All-Star Game is more than enough to compensate for the lack of giving a shit, which, if anything, makes the whole experience more fun.

Oh, like we wouldn't all enjoy that!

I just assume everyone on CSI: Cyber is a hacker until proven otherwise. And even then I keep on assuming it.

Look, you don't want to see me when I write these things all cranky.

Hey, I remembered Steven Universe and everything! Even made it the top pick. Does that earn me nothing?

Yeah, I think 80s movies are probably a bit of a blind spot for me: Growing up, there maybe wasn't quite the same sense of a codified canon for them as there were for 60s and 70s films, and they weren't quite as present in the contemporary consciousness as 90s and 00s movies. So I missed some of the interesting ones.…