I’m still in the first third of the season or so, but did it sit weird for anyone else? Like a bit Ted-Lasso-y in the sense that the sweet is overpowering the salty and the Ava-Deborah relationship utterly lacks bite? I’ll crawl through the rest of the episodes but there was an acidic edge to the first two seasons…

if “the work” means showing up for filming and moping around like a kicked dog, he’s truly worthy of praise.

...what is this article? Of Pixar’s 28 films, 9 are sequels; that’s a third of ‘em. Looking at the roster, the bulk of the sequels came between 2010 and 2019 (which makes sense based on the age of the studio and the production timeline), followed by a spate of original stories whose release were hamstrung by the globa…

Kids freakin love Minecraft, especially playthrough videos or narrative shorts/movies made up of gameplay footage (my nephew watches these; they’re inane and there’s lots of screaming); my guess is the WB movie is a big-budget, Illumination Mario style four-quadrant brand-extending blockbuster, while the Netflix…

There’s a world where VPR stays rooted in SUR and follows new batches of young servers trying to make it in the world, but I think the Dayna/Brett/Max season buried it. At this point the show is more about the core group than SUR, or even Lisa. I think they’ll do a couple more VPR seasons, shuffling people like Lala…

Jax usually tells the truth?

When adapting an existing work, the screenwriter (or composer/cartoonist/netflix writers room etc) becomes the author of the adaptation; they have to take some ownership of the work, and if they think they’re not putting themselves in there somehow, they’re lying and probably screwing up pretty badly.

this kinda boils down to “I miss when I was a kid and could just assume the adults around me were competent and caring.”

Tons of adapted works barely resemble their original text. Adaptation adds gun fights, car chases, drug smuggling and forbidden romance to a story about orchid enthusiasts, the author literally inserts himself as the protagonist, and it’s one of the best screenplays ever. Blade Runner has superficial resemblance to Do…

I don’t know: the rock group Modern Baseball formed in 2011; maybe *they* wrote AFfC and DwD!

he very obviously is. His hatefulness is clearly well practiced and real, but he’s here to stir shit up, at best.

Interesting! Is there anything to corroborate that beyond one of the people behind the pen name having been GRRM’s assistant? I find it hard to believe Feast and (especially) Dragons would be the result of collaboration with a ghostwriter, considering how shaggy, plotless, and in need of editorial oversight they are…

I know stupidity comes part and parcel with bigotry but gadzooks you’re dumb.

separating people out and generalizing their behavior and attitudes on the basis of the color of their skin is racism, by definition. Crack a book much? Don’t seem like ya do!

“why the hell are you focusing this conversation on black people?” is a question that truly answers itself.

getting a little batty in the greys, huh?

I always push back at this; lots of stuff in season 5 isn’t from the book (and what is from books 4 and 5 improves on them), season 6 is all outline stuff and is good. The show drops with 7 and 8, when B&W have one foot out the door.

I’ve gone from “eh, just let him cook” to “dude, just crap it out on the page and get it in print” to “his heart’s not in it, and that’s fine” to “just hire a frigging cowriter/ghostwriter, dude.” If there’s anything to take away from AFfC and ADwD is that the story’s become too ungainly, so I don’t envy his position,…

I got a Lord and Miller notification for this??

This isn’t just the artists gouging their fans; otherwise the Black Keys would just drop the prices to move the unsold seats. Ticketmaster has a monopoly on venues and ticket sales and imposes fees the artist doesn’t even see, forcing these bands to set high prices just to break even.