For those asking how this could happen, I will remind you that our Parliament gave a standing ovation to an old Nazi less than a year ago. Minimum effort background checks is just not how we do things up here. 

I dunno, I think Scott Moe is less batshit crazy than Danielle Smith. He’s still a stinking Tory, but he’s a boring, square Tory.

Well, Daily Wire just booted out Candice Owens, maybe they jave a opening? He’d be a big get as the star of LabyBallers 2.

The reason Whedon was able to keep his behavior under wrap is that womanizing and petty tyranny are widespread and fully accepted traits for male directors. The slight sea change that led to Whedon’s fall from grace is bigger than Fisher alone.

Unpopular opinion: I really hate Cujo. It’s framed and sold as a horror movie, but it’s not: it’s a super sad movie of a completly innocent dog slowly dying from a normal realistic disease. It’s just a miserable time - why would I want to watch a dog in pain for 90 minutes? (And yes, I know the actual dog[s] on screen …

“If I wrote a fucking book, gave a few chapters away to readers, and they came back to me and said “Yeah, we really don’t like this bit where Jim dies” and I go “OK, Jim’ll live” and I change the chapter, then that’s not really my work.”

I want to hope nobody is dumb enough to say an Alien project is woke because it stars a woman or people of colour, but then I remember the numerous people I saw claiming Prey was woke because there is no way someone could beat Predator with “primitive” weapons like a bow and arrow. Like, you guys have seen the first…

To be honest, I kind of regretted making this post as soon I hit sent. I know a lot of people love Aliens, and I’ve been struggling with friends (both online and off) looking down at me for liking American pop culture, I should probably not do the same with people who love Aliens.

Why is the formula to imitate Aliens, and not the superior original?

I see where you are coming from, but I think taking the time to have the Doctor confirm what we already knew would have hurt the pacing of the episode.

I don’t think the racism is supposed to be worse than murder. I think the racism is supposed to driver home how bad the murder was.

“I feel like I sense what you wish was in here to some extent, and I’m as white and middle aged as RTD is, so maybe my voice goes to the back of the line. But overall I think it all did a better job telling a story then you felt it did.”

I’m in the same both. I totally missed the racism thing. I just thought the Finetimers hated the Doctor because they were rich nepobaby spoiled brats not used to people not catering to her every whim.

I’m 90% sure the Doctor and Ruby didn’t buy it all - the look on their face was one of “seriously? you think we’ll fall for that?” but what were they going to do? Toss her back to the slugs? That’s not their style. Judge her and throw her in jail? They have no authority and no jail.

Wait, that was about racidm? Goddamn, that flew right by me. I just thought they were rich elitist assholes, and that Lindy was just a self-centered spoiled nepobaby.

Does Knull means something funny in Swrdish? 

I really got a feeling of “here is more early Lara” from Rise. It just felt like the game was running in place, like Quantum of Solace after Casino Royale. Except without an interesting villain like QoS had.

I am among those who did not connect at all with the Venom films. The fact that this new entry is directed by the writer of the last two, who has never directed a movie before, does not exactly fills me with confidence. This usually means the studio couldn’t find any director willing to do the film and as such needed…

While I would also be super into checking it out, I think the OWoD’s moment has passed. The games are very much rooted in the mid-to-late 90s, and all the recent attempts to “modernize” them by Paradox have been very mixed to say the least.* The only way I could see it work is if it leaned into the 90s cheese aspect…

I think the problem is that three whole games was waaayy too much for an origin story. The first game was a great origin, they didn’t need to drag it out for two more.