“By the way, the fact that I seem to have ruffled so many feathers with my original post here, while imitating an exaggerated Apple fan, sort of supports my ire of Apple superfans.”

You’ve honestly never heard that before? It’s the most famous retelling of Hamlet out there...

It’s just a poster, bruh. “Illustration not to scale” etc.

I love how the clothing I wear magically tells you my bathing habits. You’re a real perv, you know that?

Why would you “hate to think that”? Try minding your own fucking business, ya creep.

And I take great glee in triggering little dictators like you every time. How about you just mind your own fucking business and let other people wear whatever the hell they want? That’s how adults move through the world. Grow up.

Ooops, I deleted your childish comment. Nice try pretending to be a married adult - it’s clear from your writing you’re not older than 12. Please retype whole message - I promise I won’t dismiss it this time.

It’s cool - the women in your life know you’re a scumbag, but you do you, fake liberal douche.

First: Who’s censoring you, dumbfuck? All your ignorant posts are still up here. Disagreeing with you is not censorship, you pitiful little child.

Recommend you ALSO socialize so you 1) don’t assume people are straight when they’re clearly not, and 2) come to the realization that the term “chicks” went out of style in the 1980s and no woman wants to be called that.

You made a factual claim which is false. People pointing out that you’re lying doesn’t mean they’re DEFENDING the laws - they’re just informing people of the correct information, which you still haven’t acknowledged. If you don’t like the law, try to change it. But pretending it’s not actually the law is asinine.

I LOVE that you’re pretending I’m the absolutist here. I don’t care if you hate it - I just think it’s silly that you’re pretending it’s objectively bad rather than chalking it up to your own taste. This is the very first time in this thread you haven’t said straight up “the show doesn’t work” or “the writing is just…

I know, right? Reminds me of all those lazy movie reviewers who just decided to leave out the whole “Darth Vader is his father” thing when they reviewed Empire Strikes Back. Lazy fucks - don’t just HINT at a huge twist in the story, spoil it for all of us!

And again - you can pretend there’s an objective way to judge a television show and that you are the one who magically grasps it and your detractors are simply stupid, but pretending is all that perspective is good for. Things that don’t work for YOU aren’t objectively bad scenes - you’re just filtering what you see…

“You’re as much of a fucking hypocrite as Trump supporters are on here.”

You’re actually defending someone who thinks it’s only rational to fear something AFTER it happens? Y’all truly are dumb as fuck. Poor triggered little snowflakes with no safe space.

My point is that you will always write off the more blatant homage sections as “bad”, while I loved them. Your mileage may vary, indeed! I love the silly, Scooby Doo-level plot, I love classic bomb countdown tropes, I love all the shot-for-shot homages to Terminator and Jurassic Park. I don’t want them to change any…

“That is palpable, which means you can feel it. It doesn’t need to be explained. It just is.”

That’s exactly what this strategy entails - it just gives them a metric they can actually measure, unlike time which most of them cannot.

The whole series is built on a series of homages - it’s never going to read as “not lazy” to you, because the entire point is for it to be always achingly familiar. If you want something ground-breaking, stop watching the most popular shows on the planet and start trawling through poorly-seeded Australian TV torrents.