I feel like, as it was with WandaVision, an assessment of how source-material-accurate it is is likely best discerned by folks who’ve seen (and, arguably to a degree, appreciated) the campy earnestness of the original show.

She might have been blindsided but in that picture of her coming out of her lawyer’s office once it was done she looks absolutely elated to not be married to that man anymore.

When Katie Holmes divorced him she used burner phones to keep the whole thing a secret until she had absolutely all of her shit together to…

Rob Zombie as a director is polarizing. I have known a lot of people who loved his work but personally I can’t stand it. I feel like he is coming from a place of homage but just ends up copying what better horror film makers have done before better.

Sylvester McCoy is in this thing? Most excellent!

So it looks like an episode of The Munsters?

Superbad has a bigger cultural imprint than Avatar. You may not like it, you may not have even seen it, but you know the name McLovin.

It’s almost impressive how they made a movie full of wild technicolor fantasy creatures and I have never heard a child talk about this movie or heard from a fried “Ugh my kid wants to watch Avatar for the 10th time this week.” Cameron worked so hard to make it a Serious Movie For Grown-Ups that it sucked all the fun…

My favorite argument is “yah, but it was so influential in behind the scenes CGI technology that is such a HUGE part in the movies that we shit on for using too much CGI.”

Thank you for putting all this more succinctly than I could have. That pretty much sums up the ways this article reaches. I think the biggest overall reach is that they try to conflate technical impact with pop culture impact. They’re making the argument that Avatar had a cultural impact, but to most people that means…

This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success. Titanic gets referenced far more in pop culture than Avatar, and it came out 25 years ago. Toys and other Avatar merchandise…

Incels always remind me of this:

AFAIK, while someone pays for the spectacle, the performer isn’t paid by the NFL. It’s a lot of work to create a one-off show and those most likely to do so are those working for exposure.

The fact that Bob and Linda also actually like each other and have fun together sets them apart from other sitcom couples. 

It also serves to set him apart from Jimmy Pesto. One of the things that makes Pesto a bad guy is that he’s ashamed of his kids’ weirdness.

Another way Bob eschews the typical sitcom dad trope is he’s not an overgrown manchild that needs to be babysat by the overly stern wife. A wife that is only overly stern BECAUSE she’s married to someone who isn’t pulling his weight in the parenting department.

If we were living in my imagined science fiction future, a husband or ex-husband objecting to an abortion would be told, “Fine, we’ll transplant the fetus into an artificial uterus in your body, and you can carry it to term.”

I love all things Tim Minchin, and that line has stuck with me for years:

To paraphrase Tim Minchin, just because an idea is lasting or tolerated does not mean it is worthy. Unless you think that the status quo ever has been and always shall be the best of all possible worlds.

When talking about a medical procedure, is it not important to discuss it in medically correct terminology? Saying that the electrical waves produced in the fetus at 6 weeks are a “heartbeat” is MEDICALLY incorrect. Full Stop.

I wouldn’t Grantham parole either.