color me shocked 

Yes, the whole thing seems fairly harmless. I think the people who are attacking him don’t realize that he likely has a touch of the ‘tism.

Like, he wanted to write a memoir, so of course the first step is to compile a database of 25,000 books to count all the words and analyze their vocabulary. How could you possibly begin writing a book otherwise?

Yeah, it feels like we’re just gonna have to wait through a couple years of neo-luddite panic about any prospect of computerized analysis of “creative” media.

“seems to have raised a lot more red flags than it lowered”

I liked Garfield’s take it’s just the movies he was saddled with were bad.

As a tangent, I like how Andrew Garfield is like the Jimmy Carter of movie Spider-Men - his tenure was mediocre to bad, but now it's just nice to have him in the public eye. 

purportedly less-harmful substitute