I’ll be honest - I did love the show up until the last few seasons. Maybe part of it is being part of a family that also includes SU Tumblr fans, but it felt like to some extent the show started having less universality and got sort of addicted to meta-narratives that really fired up a core section of the fanbase…

I’ll do my usual straight to the greys bit on this. I’m not sure why it’s shocking for anyone that sex workers are not OK with having their clients profiled or arrested. As is probably glossed over, the reason it’s so unsafe is whether the cops are arresting Johns or the workers themselves, they have to be in the…

I mean, no it isn’t. That sounds great now, but Coleman is the same person she’s always been. Yes, most people saw her first with Mitchell and Webb or some of the other stuff but she is what she always has been - a working actress who got the parts she was offered.

Honesty it’s weird how that got handled. The Asian character in the original season was the antagonist of our main character. One of the scripting missteps really was probably that they tried to fit in too much in one season thinking they had only one. So Kyler’s antagonist character sort of gets “handled” as a way of…

Are you sure? Because when I watch stuff like Hereditary or even Susperia, there’s a lot of 70's/80's revival stuff getting rave reviews and loyal followings.

I said this upthread but I think people keep missing the happy medium.

I think Spoooon covered it but yes, Sony and Feig courted a lot of this stuff actively by not letting the story die. If all that had happened was fanboys downvoted the trailers and got nothing but silence, it would have gone away.

‘Eh - as we’ve had DCEU v. Marvel and Star Wars, Star Trek, and Ghostbusters to draw lessons from, I don’t think that’s even the case.

I mean regardless of what 2016, it WAS taken away from the fans. The jettisoning of the existing cannon, the intentional casting, etc., certainly wasn’t FOR the totality of Ghostbusters fans, right? It was for the creative impulses of the producers. To some extent that won’t change even with an Akroyd (way older than…

Don’t you think that’s kind of the sort of disingenous stance (not you specifically) IO9 has taken over the years though? I remember these comments prior to 2016's announcement and the thoughts were pretty similar. Ditto Star Trek where it wasn’t. Ditto Superman where he was a boring character until “WB went grimdark”…

I feel like there’s some conflation going on here. Your wife can absolutely love that film and I’d encourage anyone to enjoy the things they love. I love Willow. Willow IS NOT a GOOD film. What it is, is absolutely creative and charming in its own, imperfect way. Someone might get that way over Deathstalker 2 or other…

Haven’t we already had had 3 years worth of that bs?

The issue is a bit more baked in than I think you realize. The Atlantic had an article on the acceptance of political correctness and what shocked me (especially after having been on IO9 and Jezebel forever), was that people vastly overestimate both tolerance for and support for PC across all demographics. People also…

People will see what they want to see. To me the most damning thing about the whole affair is the conversations that didn’t happen.

Plenty. I’ll ungrey you since this is valid complaint but it’s still whataboutism. As much as Mark Strong or Alan Rickman or Gary Oldman have played stock villains, they’ve also played other roles and in many cases are villians in stories starring other Brits as protagonists.

TL;DR - when we reach the point where every casting discussion is everyone discussing which British actor should get the role, can we stop and reevaluate why THAT has become the required criteria for genre media?

I took way too long to post for anyone to see this but anyway. I’m of two minds on this.

I actually do plan on it one of these days (maybe just before IX). I do mean it with I just don’t have any burning desire at this point but eventually I usually give most things a second pass.

Oh I agree there are those types. I’m just not sure those forums of engagement exist as you see it. I very rarely see TLJ posts these days that are not in some way related to either controversy or the new movie.

While I agree with you, you are in some ways shooing away other people’s concerns on a topic that’s got actual data on it.