She was also filming Avatar 2 and 3 for more than three full years. So in a more real sense of “days spent inhabiting the character”, she probably has spent more time playing Neytiri than the comparisons. Not that it really matters.

What’s Quill’s arc other than him recovering from the trauma of losing his mom and being raised by strangers who couldn’t articulate that they cared about him? If one’s too dull to helm a blockbuster, the other should be too. Personally, I’d kind of love if they did a more realistic take on The Vow, or 50 First Dates.…

I thought the sacrifice angle was going to be representation related. I haven’t crunched the numbers, but I’d assume by box office she’s one of the top five most bankable female actors ever, and ranked higher for Afro-Latinx actors. And yet, except for Star Trek, she’s almost never appearing recognizably as herself or…

It looks more like a hyperstylized psycho thriller version of the Manhattan show. As that show was and I’d watch Florence Pugh make eggs, this looks quite intriguing.

Ouch, this and Batwoman on the same day wipes out a decent chunk of queer women on TV.

Normally I’m against corporations having an outsize role in politics, but I can’t wait to see the Disney-funded PAC, ads, and general messing with DeSantis. If corps are as powerful as people say they are, I doubt he’s going to ever win another election.

Whoops, didn’t read closely enough. But sounds like she uses she/they.

They haven't said what pronouns they prefer yet. Some non-binary people use a mix, so we don't know yet if any of the options would be offensive to Monae. 

Not they are God, they’re from God. It’s a very, very widespread belief in Abrahamic religions that humans are made by God in God’s image, i.e. from God. It’s a very ungenerous reading to think Monae’s off the deep end saying she’s God, instead of rephrasing what your average Christian believes.

There’s more than a few allegations about him getting physically violent with collaborators and generally crashing working relationships straight into the ground with giant, ego-fueled fights. None of us really know anything yet, but I would be unsurprised if this was something like that instead of mere jerkitude.

“Trials should never be public” yikes. They necessarily have to be public. A cornerstone of functioning democracy is citizens being able to observe the courts and monitor if they’re fair. Now obviously for a lot of structural reasons like resource imbalances, the justice system isn’t necessarily fair. But imagine how…

You don't have to be constantly chemically disconnected from reality to blow $650 million dollars, but it helps. 

I agree with you that if you’re trying to make the actual best thing artistically, the best choice is to move forward. But franchises have mostly made a lot of money and not killed the brand by doing the opposite. 80% of Star Wars since Return of the Jedi is filling in gaps, and except for Solo they’ve all been at…

Matter of taste I guess, but enough that there are mountains of fan fiction about different characters, some of which is pretty good. Plus there’s the potential to go anywhere or anytime in human history and explore a whole new wizarding culture and different fantastical animals. In Quidditch Through the Ages, Beedle…

As a former HP super-fan, it’s partially both but even more that JKR has been creatively ever more disappointing since Deathly Hallows. Casual Vacancy is a bore. The Galbraith books (as far as I got) are a formulaic, fat-shaming, and misogynistic bore. The Cursed Child text is an absolute mess, the worst fan-fictiony,…

Or more accurately, if the franchise never creates another compelling lead character.  There is so much potential in the Wizarding World for a compelling non-Harry Potter-centric story or even an MCU style expansion, they just didn’t stick the landing. Personally I thought from the start Fantastic Beasts was a dead…

Even if everything else moves to short three-seasons or less, I think animated shows will continue to reach 100 episodes. If only because they can be a little more inventive with format and be easier to run for a long time. Even Archer is finally limping over the 100 episode line in their next batch of episodes.

It's not sampling that's a problem, it's sampling without getting permission and giving compensation. Nothing's saying you can't make that kind of art, you just can't be a dick about it.

What I wrote was almost word for word the same prompt I used to give phonics/literacy students when they weren’t quite connecting something I knew they knew. If you find that an assault, maybe you’re a little oversensitive.

If xylophone or xerox aren't beyond your skills, I think you can puzzle it out