Alonso’s firing was said to be “for cause”—though it seems more likely that she was let go for participating in Netflix’s Oscar nominee Argentina, 1985.

The nookie!

Come on.

That or the nookie.

That’s an objective upgrade by any measure.

Fuck the haters, I’m a millennial of a certain age and I am here for this shit.

This time they let Tom Hanks be Bill Murray.

I’ll do you one better - Why is Bill?

“In a since-deleted Curb Your Enthusiasm”

He would treat Qanon like the Lone Gunmen. Good for occasional insight but mostly useless.

Go back and re-read your comment. Mulder was most of an empiricist, because virtually everything he believed in he (and we) saw immediate firsthand evidence of it existing, and QAnon’ers have, to date, seen 0.0% of QAnon.

“While the Louis Leterrier-directed movie, led by Edward Norton as Bruce Banner/The Hulk, isn’t officially part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s still canon.”

“fallen out of contemporary popularity”

I don’t think that applies to Christie. Her books still sell in the millions yearly. The company that owns her copyright recently made $33M in one year. The 2017 Orient Express grossed over $350M.

With a trip to the movies costing what it does, I think there’s pressure to make the audience feel like they got enough film for the money.

I enjoyed The Batman overall, but holy Christ on a pogo stick did The Batman need some disciplined editing, on both a storytelling and time-length level. It’s like they’ve told a whole movie to the point of wrapping it up only for them to suddenly realise “Hang on, fuck, we’ve totally forgotten to resolve the plot…

I kinda stopped being able to take this guy seriously when he started to talk about prose like he had any idea what he was talking about. Sanderson’s writing is clear, holds a personality, but keeps on point. That’s a big reason he’s popular, his literature is deeply accessible. Smart writers write so that others can…

For a guy who makes millions per year and tithes a big percent of that to the Mormon church, maybe a catty article in Wired is the least he deserves.

I know this is hard for you, but journalism you don’t like isn’t automatically the same as a “blog post”, and randomly accusing stories you don’t like of being “blog posts” just makes you look like a complete idiot - and also very  unoriginal given it’s the #1 standard insult for journalism someone doesn’t like.

I disagree that his books are for a “non-mainstream audience”.

You’ve answered your own question right there. Writer is assigned to write an article about an very popular author. Finds out his life is beyond boring, his books are serviceable, but will always be for a non-mainstream audience, and desperately needs to add some spice so that he can produce an article that will get…