So we’re all just okay with a chinese/white actress playing a kanaka maoli, hawaiian name and everything? Good to know everyone’s still cool with my race being erased.   

I suppose I have gotten old and literal, but you can’t actually practice medicine before you are a legal adult, no matter how smart you are.

seems like the whole point should be to attract a new audience with people who were famous in, like, 2005, rather than do weird sequel episodes that are following other weird sequel episodes.

As a non-He-Man experiencer before now, my take is..:

Haven’t watched it yet, but from a removed perspective some of these changes do seem to make some kind of sense if you look at them from as a reaction to the shitstorm surrounding the final season. The typewriter’s an obvious gimmick, but narrating it as a letter rather than having the kids actually there means…

I’m assuming the kids are not seen because they learned their lesson from HIMYM. They didn’t want to have to film 10 different possible endings with kids/recycle the same footage of the kids over and over the series went on and the kids aged.

Goddamn...2021 is taking some greats. As a kid who grew up on hip hop in the 80s and 90s, I guess I better start getting used to it.

Yeah, but I think that’s fairly intentional. Paxton is supposed to be, basically, the ideal tv teenager guy who absolutely does not exist in real life.  (I for one definitely did not go to school with any Paxtons)  

Yeah, conservatorship should really be reserved for those with severe mental disabilities and people dealing with things like dementia and alzheimers. “Going through some shit,” shouldn’t result in conservatorship, (and even if it does, it should have a defined time-limit, like they have to re-prove every three years…

Yeah, this is for everyone now and I am just about done with the AVclub.
What’s even worse, when someone is still in the greys (and does anyone know how you get out of the greys? It happened to me but don’t know how.) their comment, or part of it, is only visible in your notifications - you can’t find it on the page,…

It’s one thing to base a fictional character on someone without telling them, but another to include so many identifiable details that people think they might have written it under a pseudonym. Roupenian talks about all the hate that got sent her way online, but that could have easily gone to Nowicki by people…

There's drawing details and then there's writing with a lot of specific details about 2 people and then when you get to the private and intimate parts of those people's lives making stuff up that makes them seem either misogynistic and unable to handle rejection or dumb and easily led.

“I don’t know; Roupenian changed many of the details and used the relationship to express a different dynamic than the real one.”

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Well, after watching it, I’m not a big fan of the whole “well it’s derivative” criticism. I mean, it is, it’s a sci-fi time-travel invasion movie, it’s bound to have a lot of similarities to other sci-fi invasion movies and sci-fi time travel movies, and that’s okay. There are a lot of movies that play with…

Why is anyone even doing a backflip on a LotR show? 

Yep, one of my thoughts on watching was that the original pitch probably was something relatively simple, like ‘hero gets transported forward in time to fight against aliens alongside his daughter.’ It’s simple and even relatively original.

I’m very much on Team Studio Notes a lot of the time, actually. They get all the blame when things go wrong, but 0 credit when things go right.

Not all that similar, except for a premise that’s as old as gladiatorial combat. BR’s all about high school and its social dynamics, and the Hunger Games hardly gives any of that a passing thought.

Yeah, to me the whole set of the Hunger Games movies (I’ve never read the books) are fascinating because what the movies are really about is using propaganda, marketing, and messaging.

I liked Catching Fire best because I thought the first half of the movie, all the politics, and the tour, was some of the richest storytelling in the series.