CANCELCEPTION

Anyone who isn’t a member of any of these people’s immediate circles, who takes a stand on any of this, is a goddamn moron.

I think it’d be fun if we set things up so that famous actors still get to be famous actors, but as they reach certain levels of fame, they’re legally required to be recorded doing horrible things, just so that in addition to Tom Hanks’s folksy interviews, we also have to watch him occasionally punch a kitten.

Fuck You Rich Egomaniacs.

Our “tear hair out in screaming madness” moment came about two thirds of the way through the BOBF episode that was actually a Mandalorian episode, when we realized that we probably weren’t going to be seeing Boba Fett in this Boba Fett show. In retrospect we understand the production realities that ultimately led to…

I suppose at some point it stops being a particular characteristic of some people and starts being a general part of the human condition: we’re generally susceptible to parasocial fanaticism (which is, I guess, effectively a manifestation of faith-belief), but not everyone is equally susceptible to it in the same way…

I don’t know how they benefit from AIs being considered people; people have rights and the last thing they’d want is for their creations to have rights.

Right, and I get that, I just feel like it would be possible (in principle, anyway) for those teen girls’ lives to have played out in a way where they don’t feel quite so fanatical about Swift. Maybe it’s a consequence of our culture in general downplaying the experiences of women, so that when someone like Swift does…

Ah yes, the show that had me and my family screaming “WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING”

It seems to me that someone can only become fanatical like this if the circumstances allow it. I don’t know that I have the words to describe it accurately, but there’s a certain kind of psychological or emotional grounding that someone has to lack in order to become fanatical. If your emotional needs are being met, an…

The “good reason” for Ahsoka to exist should be that it’s a well-told story made by competent professionals. How it ties into the increasingly stupid lore of Star Wars is a distant second (or maybe third, or fourth).

8 episodes, according to Wikipedia, although the first two eps drop on Aug 22 so it’ll run for 7 weeks.

The idea I had for the Obi-wan show (for years, even before it was announced as actually happening) was to have him investigating a Jedi-adjacent situation involving the Tatooine criminal underground in Mos Espa. It went like this:

Because AIs don’t donate to political campaigns.

Aw, The Peripheral was pretty good; I hope they figure out another home for it.

I was like, why does that big burly guy look familiar? Then I was like, oh, right:

Me and my clone.

We watched it while high and it was... kind of funny. I can’t imagine how dire it would have been sober.

That’s a good example; Hanks in Saving Mr. Banks didn’t do much except haircut and moustache in terms of physical transformation. (Or at least, nothing particularly obvious. I’m sure he did a bunch of work that’s more or less invisible to us.) He looked enough like Walt Disney that I don’t think audiences had any…

What’s concerns you about that balkanization? More competition seems like a good thing, rather than all the content being in the hands of a few companies.