It’s odd how so many people are framing this like the Alamo brand or experience is going to change drastically. It’s just going to gradually get more expensive, you silly geese.

For those reasons The Pink Opaque reminded me of Ghostwriter, especially as that was probably one of the first “scary” shows I watched (the slime monster story legit messed eight year old me up), but through the eyes of an adult I just see low-rent camp.

glib cynicism covering ignorance of a topic with “been there done that” world-weariness? Wow, how different from every internet comment.

mf’er listens to *one* Pantera album and starts calling himself a political theorist…

…what?

Exactly; I wouldn’t say voting with your dollar and snubbing businesses for going mask-off religious fascist is as cuddly-cuddly as op describes; if anything it’s acknowledging the corruption in the system and protesting it within the bounds and using the tools of capitalism.

That’s for sure; it was too long and as a result I didn’t fully read it.

Yeah, I’m not sure “I just sit back and enjoy the rot” is the moral high ground ultra man thinks it is.

yeah gen xers became their parents, for sure.

there are, obviously, people over 15 on tiktok. millennials, people who were fifteen when the movie came out.

not understanding tiktok isn’t what makes a person old. complaining about not understanding tiktok does.

young people *do* have avenues through which they can watch old movies.

best I can say is he did catch flak for a “gay french king” joke in 2015; maybe the slight heat he caught for a lousy throw-away line broke his brain.

i thought the “it was over corrected” hyperlink was to hand-wave that reassessment, but it’s just referring to a John Legend cover. Remember when hyperlinks were used to supplement the context of a sentence with the information it referenced, and not to completely contextualize an oblique reference?

this is the most dire thing I’ve read on post-kinja avclub, which is quite an achievement. much like chemical warfare was an achievement.

the Jedi only got fully linked to failure with the prequels, and I’d argue the most damaging thing Lucas did was codify the idea that they were boring loser cops.

that Stranger Things long take was, even for a show about interdimensional portal monsters and a telekinetic child army, reality-breaking. The show just shifted into John Wick style action, and the oner only emphasized how out of tone the whole situation was.

…this is the second “why is Disney not overexposing its so-so content??” article in a week.

I think the misdirect works in the context of Luke being at his lowest point and believing himself to be The Last Jedi and Yoda reminding him that the tradition will live on.

yep, Yoda’s messing with him (the most Yoda-y thing Yoda’s Yoda’d since the 80s). I still enjoy that scene for the symbolism of letting go of the books but remembering their meaning, and trusting your students to move forward with the tools you’ve given them.