I was thinking exactly that. He’s funny as hell in that season, but also tremendously sweet. 

It was really weird, I dreamed that I was living in New England...

Literally all fandoms are bad. Fandoms for stuff I hate are bad. Fandoms for stuff I like are bad. The sheer concept of letting the enjoyment of something subsume your identity, meaning when the thing fails your standards you take it personally and when folks bag on the thing it means they’re bagging on you, is toxic.

Is this where we overreact to a somewhat eye-rolling bit of cringe because it involves two people everyone hates and a show everyone talks about

I’d be really curious to know the creative process for this movie. Did someone with pixar want to make a space exploration movie but Disney would only fund it if it had the obvious nostagia bait and toy selling potential of Toy Story or was someone tasked with making a Toy Story prequel and came up with this?

Edit: I saw below you didn’t double down on this, so nevermind.  No need to pile on.

Maybe from a quality standpoint, not from a financial standpoint. From what I remember, Captain Marvel didn’t make a cultural impact the way Black Panther or the Spiderman movies did (high bar, I know), if you leave aside all the incels complaining about Larson’s outspokenness.

“not being charismatic?”

4. Quitting Twitter

It helps that Tom Holland can move like an action star.   Sure he looks young and is not buff as hell but you can see his dance training and his experience with being Spider-man here.  

He’s been doing stage work. He starred in Betrayal on both the West End and Broadway in 2019. And then, you know, a pandemic mostly shut down live theater.

Yes, you’re certainly more “in touch” by not actually growing up in Israel, or being in the IDF, or having any actual experience on the ground at all. Hamas is a scourge on Gaza, so she’s not wrong there. The only other specific things she’s said are in favor of coexistence. 

That was really clever, but it feels more like a Tarantino tribute than Bebop. Bebop was never quite so meta. I do like the dynamic between the trio, though. It doesn’t feel like the original but it’s solid.

Faye seems like a completely new character (I don’t mean the outfit). I think it’s her seeming so buddy buddy with Jet and Spike that feels so off. I don’t know, something about this show just feels off. 

You hate the thing most people love! Nice!

That line in the review is a big part of what inspired me to write the piece!

would rather a spaced revival than any sequel.

Am I the only who thought the new Suicide Squad movie was awful? Maybe I had my hopes too high, cuz I was super disappointed. And I usually love James Gunn flicks.

My money’s on WoT.

You do this weird thing sometimes when you hold a movie’s timing against it even though you know intellectually that movies are developed years before their release.  Remember that terrible, bad-faith review of The Frontrunner? I remember.