hearing “STREISAND EFFECT” in the BRUTALITY voice in my head as i read this...

of course the real “spoiler” is that kylo ren kills grogu.

yes! also just want to add that all studies have shown that humans enjoy media - book, radio, television, movie - more if we are familiar with it, aka seen it before or had plot points revealed. we are bad at paying attention and thinking when we are scared or confused or startled. when we know what is up, we can…

on the contrary, his measured but victorious tone makes it clear he got what he wanted, or some version of it, and is adhering to the standard confidentiality in these situations.

i think people watched the video and saw a group of people harassing a famous person at a bar and acting like it was a joke and then being surprised to catch some hands. fyi if you get in the face of a drunk person and provoke them, they will act like a provoked drunk person.

the problem is with Rise being a nearly unwatchable mess, the documentary will be more of people taking turns placing, or at least deflecting, blame and not enough of the story. probably going to be 15 years or more before we get a dispassionate account. (which i am also very interested in!)

hey look the av club is still paying (i assume?) someone who doesn’t like (or watch?) star trek to review star trek shows!

yeah but it is an absolutely inspired critique of “white feminism” to present her first as an ally to Annie and antagonist to Homelander. i am not sure how much it serves a review to reveal her arc. If you are a high information viewer or read the source conics, you already know where this is likely headed, and can…

re Picard reviews, the funniest one was mid season when half the review was the reviewer talking about how a friend had confronted him via tweet with the news that “i don’t like it” is not a valid criticism. i swear these things should have been posted to a livejournal, not published as episode reviews.

this is a problem with av club tv and movie reviews, and it happens elsewhere too, but it happens here a lot: the reviewer is uninterested in the premise, and cannot differentiate between their personal preference and the craft of visual storytelling, which is what the review is supposed to be about. maybe the worst…

strong agree that it is a critique, but also yeah people do not get it. it’s been decades and people still often don’t understand robocop or starship troopers are full satires.

yeah the disconnect between people working on this and, you know, where the discourse is at is... ...really something! the only way to make it work is to have dredd hunting down other judges for abuse of power, and having it be descriptions like what we see in bodycams and mobile phone videos. judge dredd executing…

she is in an open marriage. brad pitt is her side piece. nature is healing.

yeah and when the fights are extremely choreographed and half the script is people talking about how much of a killer this guy is, the idea that they aren’t intending a high body count is just laughable.

seriously, the only weak spot in these films is they have moved away from the puppy and toward his love and bereavement for his wife. it makes his character more real but his behavior less relatable. killing that many people over a puppy? okay. killing that many people over unresolved grief? yeah man maybe take some…

Yes! Thank you for your reply. I grapple with this a lot too. I was the full time caregiver for my kid from infancy until kindergarten, and especially in those early years the work to parent, keep the household running, and consult from home to pay bills was all consuming (and in a lot of ways i had it easy!). I was…

i always knew i wanted to have kids, i have one, i love parenting, i want more

i would like a new episodic Trek show, in the TNG style, set in the era Picard is in, just about exploration/society/politics etc. That’d be great.

based on your other comments, it seems the show would have to center on the early days of the vorta cloning program, when there were a lot of unfortunate outcomes. not sure that’d make for great tv? i’d rather rewatch Disco.

They did, and more to the point the accident happens while Kirk is Captain of the Enterprise, so the show will need to run for 10+ seasons to get to it. This idea that the show will just be about that is from that special variety of internet commenter that tries to sound savvy while just making clear they don’t know…