Huzzah! It’s such a treasure

That’s fair. Once burned, etc., etc.

Right! Forgot that. 

Which was so strange considering the Italian accents in the Ezio games. 

I am truly enjoying Aaron Moten’s performance as an immature, impulsive weirdo who’s stumbled into a hero’s journey. Or at least a lead character’s journey.

Definitely! Paxton was so good

The station we were watching on went to Picture in Picture. It was surreaal.

Right? I hate divisions too, but I live in a world where some of those divisions are about basic human rights and democracy, so that luxury has flown out the window. It’s not like I need the Rock to endorse anyone, but he could say that he’ll continue to work more quietly on issues that matter to him, rather than go…

They’re not just indiscriminately killing aid workers, they are deliberately targeting them. 

I think you don’t know what a dog whistle is, much less a textbook one,  if you think ““Shōgun’s women aren’t just great additions to a compelling story. They’re now the anchors that ground a brilliant television drama” is one.

None of what you quoted shows that the article implied that women “are the only thing that make the story good.”

If only that were all he was doing.

LOL, not in this case, but fair enough.

Except I think it is trotted out in favor of auteur theory and “great man” fallacies. Maybe some of the time it’s implied that you mean the faceless, unartistic suits, but it’s also trotted out to squelch any feedback that the “auteur” might not want to hear, no matter what the source. 

Ah, good to know. I never read the book and thought that was implied in the comment I was replying to. 

I agree that art does not do well when made by committee, if that committee does not care about the art and only cares about about ROI. I dislike how the sneering at “made by committee” devalues collaborative work and plays too hard into auteur theory and all the ancillary problems that come with it.

I thought it was also a round about way to get him to bathe

Not subtitling the Japanese dialogue completely centers everything on Blackthorne and hinders the development of the Japanese characters. Fair enough that it was the book’s methodology, but I much prefer a version that centers less on Blackthorne and allows the Japanese characters to come to the fore.

Oh yeah, almost completely erased that movie from my brain. What a waste of a brilliant cast. Would have been a great one to ask about.

Individual people are directly affected by causes and politics. That’s why we have causes and politics to begin with. Bigotry is about the dehumanization of individual people.