Churchill allegedly had advanced knowledge of a German bombing raid on Coventry, yet did nothing to prevent it or evacuate citizens so as not to reveal that the allies had cracked the enigma code. The point, in both cases, is not “just” to protect the source, but that by protecting the source many more lives will be…

That’s what some accused it of. It’s not really true. It portrays torture, because torture happened, and yes, some information is gleaned from it, but it’s not shown to be reliable. In the opening scene they torture some guy to find out when an attack is planned, “Sunday” he says, then offers “Monday”, and “Tuesday”...…

The basis in reality is that torture is still regularly used despite knowing that it isn’t reliable. Fiction could do with showing how unreliable it is, but that’s not narratively expedient, so I can understand why examples are rare.

Agreed. They seem to be approaching this as if it’s some intensely anticipated piece of entertainment that everyone should go in to with as little knowledge as possible, which is a weird choice. This isn’t Endgame or the Game of Thrones finale, it’s not even The Rise of Skywalker. It’s a sequel to 13-year-old film…

Does the show feature significant LGBTQ content? I’d think that should be the primary measure of the tag’s appropriateness, not whether or not it meets some minimum standard of positive depiction. It’s not like anyone’s going to stumble into a show that clearly presents itself as the life story of a notorious serial…

That Game of Thrones should’ve been cancelled after one season for performing so “poorly” (i.e. pretty well, but not as impressively as it got further into its run)? Presumably said with irony, although I could not tell you what point is being made.

As others have pointed out, it’s not really notably darker than what you’d expect from Star Wars, it’s just more thoughtful and much, much better made on pretty much every level of production. This is Star Wars with a consistent understanding and control of tone, that isn’t asking you to shut up, turn your brain off,…

Personally, I feel like they need to film some new stuff and release a full on “Andor-cut” of Rogue One after the finale. Less for the fanservice-y stuff you mention, and more to bring it further in line with the level of quality on show here — presumably with a slight change of focus towards Cassian (and hopefully…

One that always bugged me was Indiana Jones. Bond is set up as a womaniser, so it’s expected. But why was Indy hooking up with someone new in every movie (including an actual Nazi! who also hooks up with his dad!), when they already had Marion? For all of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’s faults, at it least it got that …

Deontay Wilder did want to play Clubber Lang Jr. in Creed III, and Stallone and Jordan were apparently interested, but it seems cooler heads prevailed.

It won’t happen, but I kind of want them to end by having another set of reshoots and a producing a new Andor-finale-cut of Rogue One, bringing the film even more in line with what they’re achieving here.

“Best” deal #1: Sure, you could find a copy of Jurassic Park on 4K blu-ray for under $10, but why not pay over three times as much in return for 4 increasingly awful sequels? And if for some bizarre reason that does interest you, please note that it’s not even a complete boxset, because Dominion isn’t included.

With the Netflix shows, they’ve been quite non-committal, which I take to mean they’re taking an approach of it being canon until it’s not. That is, it all happened, unless in the future they come up with something that directly contradicts part of it, in which case that bit didn’t.

Ah, Asian-American specifically, that would eliminate my examples. Although it still might be stretching the truth a bit (e.g. none of Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Ronnie Chieng, and Sonoya Mizuno are American, and I’d imagine that’s also the case for a lot more if I went through the rest of the cast).

[Crazy Rich Asians] was the first major studio picture with a majority Asian cast in over 20 years.

I especially liked the clever strategy when Adar fled the battle on horseback and was chased by Galadriel at full gallop, and then Halbrand, who left after them by a distance, was apparently able to predict their precise route, go the long way around, somehow getting well ahead of them in the process, and then double…

I did spell Lee right? It is 리?

People still can’t really give consent when the power imbalance is such that one person fears for their life if they refuse sex

It’s not the modern day stuff that’s the problem, at least not in principle (the half-hearted way they’ve included it post-Desmond is not always great though). The problem is the Precursor shit, Minerva and Juno and the like — it’s utter nonsense and not the fun kind, and more importantly it’s been doled out so…

I never finished that first season. I can’t think of any other show where I’ve intentionally skipped episodes, but with Parks and Rec I went from 1.02 or 1.03 to 2.01 and never went back to fill in the gap. It’s actually kind of impressive how tiresome and unfunny season 1 is, given the obvious talent of everyone…