I don’t think Hurt Locker is all that enduring or anything, but it’s pretty bad propaganda if that was its goal.

Difficult when you don’t see those traits as failings. True believer misogynists probably aren’t going to see the error of their ways, just more layers to the gynocratic NWO conspiracy or whatever.

Everyone’s an asshole about Shape of Water. I’m not going to say it’s “better than Get Out,” because that’s a stupid semantic debate and Get Out kicks ass. But both movies are excellent.

S5 of Breaking Bad was both earned and exceptionally handled. The last 2 seasons of Better Call Saul were also excellent. S5 of Mad Men was arguably its best season, and the two more after that were still great all through to the end (yes, including S6.)

We’re talking about a luxury toy that’s probably a second or third car. At a pricepoint over $60k for something so frivolous, does fiscal pragmatism really matter for this buyer?

S3 of the Netflix Daredevil kind of already adapted Born Again, so the name of this show is slightly confusing.

Yes, it all has systemic impact on a ton of levels. I’m not about to say that *nobody* should be allowed to have a huge truck or SUV, but they should absolutely have to shoulder more of a societal burden for it.

A lot of it’s circumstantial stuff, JKR liking or agreeing with people whose wider philosophies are terrible.

The erosion of social values in the face of survival is a pretty central theme for a story like this, though, right? Of course cannibalism popped up; all infrastructure has collapsed and the only survivors are random people with zero safety net. It’s the Donner Party, with zombies.

Cool. You’re also a bigot. You don’t have to understand it.

Sorry, I refuse to be gaslit by this bullshit. He said trans people are “not a legitimate category of being.” Illegitimate. Less than. Below. That is not different.

“It can’t be genocide because the target is subhuman” is almost boring in how directly fascist it is. What do they think the actual Nazis said? The exact same shit: that their targets were subhuman, were illegitimate non-members of society, and thus unworthy of the human regard that’d qualify their deaths as ‘murder.’

I obviously agree on the politics, but also think you’re right about her strengths vs. weaknesses as a writer. The whimsical, fairy tale logic of the early stories still totally works, but once she starts exploring wider systemic or political themes, it falls apart. If you take details about the worldbuilding seriously…

The neutral, centrist position of the Wizarding World is also that wizards are right to self-segregate from Muggles, right to bar Muggles from Wizarding spaces, and right to refuse to share any of the immense good magic could do in Muggle medicine, technology, or culture.

I doubt the money sits in an account. It’s probably used for investment or other finance purposes, accruing some return on top of itself.

When in doubt, accuse “the queer agenda” of being child molesters.

Background this writer doesn’t appear to mention: True Lies is itself a remake, of a 1991 French action-comedy called La Totale!

It’s definitely Puddy, The Tick, and the Chief Flight Attendant in the pre-ride video for Soarin’ at Disney California Adventure.

It defense of the Duggar family: the rules were for THEE. Not for her or her family, who deserve special accommodation for being special.

Pretty much.