Wow, a pope who acknowledges the realities and sometimes difficult choices of a woman’s life and her right to make them and receive absolution. A welcome revolution in catholic thought and preaching.

I saw the same one in school. I’m pretty sure the actors were underage and I’m pretty sure that’s INTERPOL knocking on my door because of it.

The slingshot was terrible and every recap you’d find people (mostly me) wishing it’d go the hell away. It was also useless as a weapon.

You make a good point about the bowcaster. It’s just funny that Germain is trying to sell this as not just a kids show but a building block for the future of the franchise and the box art heavily features the main character with a Space Slingshot. I don’t know, I just found that juxtaposition kind of funny.

Same here. We also watched Excalibur. We were told about this by upperclassmen, to wait for her to run up to the screen with a piece of cardboard to cover it. It was hilarious. She was no prude, she just knew someone’s parent would throw a fit.

yes. this was that one.

I swear my sophomore English teacher showed us a version of Romeo & Juliet that had brief nudity. This was pre-internet, so any glimpse of boobs was legitimately a big deal.

Its a blaster slingshot that shoots stun balls somehow. And despite Germain’s claim, this is very much a kid’s show right now, at least in the first season.

really a slingshot?

Ok maybe this isn’t just a kids show as Germain says. But this....what is this? Some kind of force slinigshot? Is this the adventures of Darth Dennis The Menace? This just doesn’t scream out “It’s not just for kids” to me.

And I want to add one last point of my own—if there’s one thing I would love for everybody to come away from this year’s crazy mess with it’s: “Read more short fiction.”

TL;DR — The Hugos need to change and evolve with the times. The Puppies exploited the same loophole that L. Ron Hubbard’s followers used decades ago.

The fact that at least in the novel category the Hugo nominees have been “sentimental, middle-of-the-road, populist” choices is much of the reason it has ceased to be a factor in my own reading list. That and as I get older I am increasingly choosing to read non-fiction, or more mainstream literary novels, or older…

I’d rather have a 1.7 carat flawless diamond than some 2.5 carat, gawdy piece of shit with no clarity and a bad cut.

“he was put in Goodell Jail for all but one game last season”

In case we need a reminder of Goodell’s awfulness, that was games 2-16, as Goodell had no intention of doing anything about Hardy until the Rice tape came out after week 1.

$80K in USD>?!?? holy shit but i am a junior jr. jr. engineer and i literally do not make HALF THAT (in Canadian dollars), please kill me immediately

I want to die so everyone will forget all the horrible awful shit I said when I was alive. Still won’t ever match the obscenely high level of horrible awful shit Joan River’s has said. Maybe they’ll even fool themselves into thinking racism is funny!

I’d have understood it if it was some kind of meeting later in life after years have passed but basically growing up together just makes it seem a bit weirder.

I was on board with the way the series ended up until the almost impossibly fan-fic sounding names of Harry’s kids.

Joan would say something racist and/or misogynist and then screech “AMIRITE?!” while everyone cringed at how old and shitty she was. Then her nose would fall off, Michael Jackson style.