“one might expect moving over to the family-friendly platform Disney+ might dampen some of the queerness or queer themes... Davies, who created Queer As Folk and It’s A Sin”

It baffles me that I see so many jerkoffs in comment sections saying “Doctor Who went Woke because DISNEY!”

I think the bigger jump was The Doctor having any kind of human-compatible sexuality at all. Once that was broached in a big way with 10 and 11, having 14 and 15 lean queer should be inconsequential.

You can just make as many films as you want, you know.

My favorite genre is ‘article drumming up controversy from comments that are not all that controversial punctuated by snarky internet commentary’

cultural conversations are part of word of mouth. the more ppl talk about sumthin the more likely new ppl will check it out, directly impacting whether it gets renewed or not. 

I’ve recently stopped binging my favorite shows and I’ve been trying to get all of my friends to stop as well. Before binging, we’d all watch an episode of a favorite show, and then spend the rest of the week talking about it. “What will happen to the characters next week?” “What does it mean when such-and-such said…

True, you don’t HAVE to binge it. But the point is that by dropping weekly (or at some rate), the show builds momentum and seems to get more notice. That is generally good for the health of the show. And as a viewer, even though I don’t have to binge it, all the spoilers are out there from the start.

That said, if you…

Pretty sure none of us are in position to demean “fanboy shit” when we post comments at io9 considering the source.

I really see that with Stranger Things, where everyone binges it and by the time I eventually got around to a recent season, everyone else is in the stages of “Oh yeah, I forgot what happened, that aired like two months ago, dude”

The Mandalorian was the first time I realized the binge model impacts a show being able to “catch on”. Baby Yoda doesn’t become a THING without the weekly space allowing the various viral moments to take hold on a ep-by-ep basis.

I just said this to my wife recently about 3 Body Problem. We liked it, but it’s never going to reach the cultural mass appeal of something like Game of Thrones because it comes and goes same quickly. Same for Fallout.

I’ve never liked the “drop it all at once” model. I loved the show, but I think I would’ve enjoyed it even more without feeling pressure to watch it all within a couple of days so that I wouldn’t have to continue to dodge spoilers, since people can’t seem to help themselves and they’re only going to increase in…

Tyler Burton Smith, who wrote the 2019 Child’s Play reboot-

LAST RONIN is a good comic! And why do people always forget that the original TMNT was never the goofy colour-coded team, but aimed at adults older kids with a bunch of violence. I don’t mind seeing that version again (even if it’s more serious than the original ‘gritty’ tone). 

Paramount could at least have the decency to never release these new series as part of a tax write-off.

Somewhere in Brooklyn, Jake Peralta freaking the fuck out!

“That guy was a Ninja Turtle the whole time?!”

BOOOOOOOO!!!

Paramount is too cheap and is running everything into the ground, spending resources on new series no one asked for.

“We live on a spaceship! Nobody is dying from a spear wound!”