It’s probably a case of critics engaging negatively with a movie that audiences actually love?

4 stars, 100% in my heart.

That sacrifice, his crazy charisma, and awesome red hair have remained a part of pop culture for decades since, even when most people crap on the movie.

My favorite bit of world building in the film was just that everyone in the trench knew Chief. I’m always really impressed when I watch something and the director has considered something that I think would never have occurred to me, and that was just so cool to see.

“The planet’s spin axis is 98 degrees”

Until the final episodes, it looked like Gilead society relegated people of color to non-leadership roles. You saw men as Guardians and women as Handmaid, Marthas, or Jezebels, but never as Wives or Commanders. It seemed like the implicit racism of a society beset by fertility issues, that for basically utilitarian…

Margaret Atwood deals with Gileads race issues and ethnic cleansing in the novel. The idea that this is “about the oppression of women, not racial minorities” is a bizarre statement, as if there aren’t people who are both, and who deal with particular issues because of it.

The conversation about Iron Fist wasn’t about race-blind casting, it was about making a pointed decision to cast an Asian actor as Danny Rand. Much of the discussion about why this would be appropriate had to do with effects on the story.

The above article mentions ways to address the situation, though.

The problem is there’s no version of one of them that doesn’t touch on the other one, which is why it breaks peoples’ suspension of disbelief.

“Making the racial divide risks making women of color MORE of a victim and thus the white women less sympathetic.”

It’s written by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

It would be, except that he doesn’t get credited as Daniel Whitney. He’s credited as Larry the Cable Guy. That’s his professional name, now, like how Snoop Dogg doesn’t go by Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. when he makes a film appearance.

The human/possum thing is really weird considering the movie has all sorts of humanoid-on-other-humanoid attraction.

It’s not, it’s just there already.

Also in Trump’s former line of work he has undoubtedly asked favors of people that are illegal but that people let slide. Trump’s new to the presidency, but contrary to Ryan’s statement he seems very practiced in making shady requests and establishing quid pro quo relationships.

Elitist? Eh, maybe a little. Liberals seem to take way more joy in being more knowledgeable than their “opponents,” which perpetuates the divide.

She was barely in it. Give her a chance.