If you were expecting a revealing, hard-hitting officially sanctioned documentary on The Beach Boys, you need to watch any officially sanctioned project about The Beach Boys released in the last 30 years to understand why it can’t happen.

That video makes me want to have a kid.

Yeah I watched the entire show for the first and only time recently, so I went in knowing what the general perception of the final season was and that made me watch the show for “signs.” I don’t remember thinking Season 5 was bad or anything. Like you said, many storylines were compelling, but that’s where I noticed…

I’d argue that it started around season 5. That’s when the show started emphasizing action and Epic character moments that, while often effective and entertaining really marked a shift away from what made the story so strong in the first four seasons. I think most people gave the shift a pass because they felt like…

Having parents who are artists and love art is historicaly a good source of people who grow up to love art and want to create it themselves.

IMO GoT started to fall off even in S5 when they completely botched the Dorne plot. There wasn’t the same commitment to carefully developing characters as there was in the earlier seasons. The stuff with the established characters was still largely good so it kind of hid it for a bit.

I’ve always held that people treated them unfairly. Most of the quotable lines from the first five seasons were written by them, not GRRM. Plus GRRM is the one who said that the ending follows how the books will end - or at least that’s what he said at the time. I suspect he’s course-correcting based on the vitriolic…

Yeah, Jaden Smith immediately comes to mind of a sidelined nepokid, whereas Willow Smith for the most part has a lot of musical talent. Seems odd when they’re from the same family.

I’m genuinely happy you had a good time, truly. But I don’t understand your rush to defend this thing.

I’m sorry, I really am, but there’s no reality in which you can be well-adjusted and also think that a two night stay in a nerd hotel that costs more than many American families make in an entire month is ‘worth the cost.’ Like, just absolute ‘let them eat cake’ shit, good lord.

The question of whether it would have been better for her to go “off-universe” for IT help seems rational, but at that price point I would probably find myself FOMOing about losing time in the experience. I’m thinking here about moviegoers who only complain about a presentation issue after the movie is over (and after…

Watch the video. She’s not the only one who had the experience of being assigned to a faction that had nothing to do with her interactions.

I’ve often thought it was a little weird that Disney didn’t give you free Disney+ at all their resorts.  At least with this one, you could make the argument that people weren’t going to spend a lot of time in their rooms, but it seems like a no brainer for them to give people a free trial with frequent opportunities…

One of the many highlights: the hotel rooms, for a thousands of dollars per day experience, did not provide fully-paid Disney+ access.

It seems so obvious when Filoni puts it in these terms.

Did I miss something or is this site just writing like two articles a day about Star Wars prequels now?

There’s been a reasonable uptick in content quality since the sale, though.  I scrapped with Hassenger a bit a few days ago, and it was refreshing to see a writer 1. return to the site after a couple of years, and 2. actually wade into the comments section.  I’ve also noticed a decline in clickbaity outrage bullshit…

I have never known less about a movie after reading a review than I have about this movie after reading this review.

Based on the review, I can say for certain it’s a movie.

Real Jamaican accents (my stepmom) can be notoriously hard to understand, so on some degree, I get where Katzenberg is coming from with his studio notes. Especially with it being early 90s Disney, and people were less interested in things being authentic. They’re just trying to make sure the movie has broad appeal and…