You know, I’ll admit it, I was very dismissive of the idea that The AV Club needed to move their whole operation to Los Angeles just so they could “be closer to the action.” I thought their Chicago location was perfectly fine for 90% of their responsibilities. But it’s real nice to have them be so close to Hollywood…

Another issue is that one of the most appealing things about pre-Elon Twitter was that it was a good place to follow breaking news and breaking sports stories. Meta has explicitly stated that they do not want Threads to be that (more room for influencers, I guess), which I get on one hand since it doesn’t fit the…

This is my experience. It’s actively difficult to engage with, because it shows me a bunch of posts I don’t care about, AND has a habit of showing the same posts over and over at the top of my feed, all the time.

Very much this. They say only people I follow option is on its way, but it’s damn near unusable until then. Still prefer it to Twitter though

As hard as it is for to root for a man whose wrestling costume was jorts, John Cena just seems like an all around solid dude.

I just wanna applaud everyone in the comments so far. Haven’t seen anyone make a joke wondering why they used a photo of an empty room in an article about John Cena. Well done, everyone.

Dwayne Johnson take note: Just a simple photo like the one above could actually go half way towards fixing your career.

Fun fact that I recently learned, Japan during WW2 publicly refused to join in on Hitler’s holocaust of the Jews despite Germany’s demands that they do so. Japan’s official policy was just to treat Jewish people just like they would treat any citizen of whatever country they were from and they also freely accepted…

Maybe because the CW produced better DC entertainment over the past decade than WB films did?

Why does this feel like a show that is going to premier on the CW?

I remember the dream 14 years ago that Fillion would be playing Hal Jordan. This is kinda close.

How the hell is Quill’s mom dying from cancer ‘fridging’? It doesn’t motivate him to do anything, with only the possible exception of the second movie.

The author cites like 5 female character deaths across 30 films and 10 shows, only a few of which are examples of fridging and several were just actors at the end of their contracts. Considering the trope actually comes from DC Comics, whose films are littered with characters who are motivated/defined by women in…

Especially since I’m pretty sure there is a universally agreed upon definition, and the author is ignoring the part where the female character’s death becomes a motivator for the male character (see Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight).

“Give Peter Quill a reason to leave earth”

The worst case of fridging in the MCU was Coulson but no one cared. 

“To this day there is no universally agreed upon definition for fridging, it’s just one of those things you know when you see it”

i think we’re all waiting for this website to do actual media criticism, and not glorified twitter threads of buzzword outrage bait.

A dead parent within an origin story is not fridging. Heroes have been orphaned from the beginning of fiction; that’s not what this discussion is about. Dead parents are kind of equally spread across genders, and that was not the phenomenon that Simone was describing.