I am unusually excited for this show. Great cast for one of my favorite shows from early childhood.

His exit from his cameo in Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later was one of the few times I laughed out loud at the series.

AVClub thanks you for all the clicks. Lol.

What made you think that?

Darn. Pack it up, 1000+ other comments. I guess there wasn't anything worth talking about here after all.

When has not knowing the facts ever gotten in the way of a Fox host sharing their opinion though?

Not sure what earlier mistake you're referring to. Attempting communication with you?

I've engaged people interested in conversation and debate. You are just here to dismiss any discussion without offering any insight to your opinions. Feel free to read my other comments if you want an actual starting point. Or you could just, you know, read the article. That's a pretty good starting point too.

That's an interesting takeaway, but what a movie intends to communicate and what audiences take away from it are two different things. Xenophobia and romanticization of the perfect-bodied white male soldier have been around long before 300 but the film sure spoke to the people who are into those things—many of whom…

I don't think it's smart enough for that. It is a pretty faithful adaptation of a graphic novel written by a very chauvinist right winger. I think Zach Snyder just wanted it to look cool.

Folks have been discussing the fascism of 300 since 2007.

It did though. That's an entirely accurate headline. Feel free to offer counterargument.

Birth of a Nation didn't invent racism, either.

And FRENCH.

I don't think it was that self-aware…

I think it's significant that the Persians in the movie are depicted as dark-skinned Africans or dressed like the modern Taliban while the Spartans from some 200 miles away are all caucasian.

Looking back it feels like much more of the world was 14 years old in 2007.

I get that, but it's the sort of thing that puts historical dramatizations into an awkward position. They tend to either gloss over the ugly bits and focus on other things or acknowledge the ugly bits with "gritty realism." 300 is certainly unusual (and its motives dubious) in its choice to call attention to certain…

It could have been, but it spends the rest of the movie consistently romanticizing how great and noble Spartan culture was. The story seems to build the case that the brutal and unforgiving upbringing was the correct way to do things. I get that it is supposed to be told from a Spartan perspective, but in effect its…

You're probably right, but the aim of the movie is clearly not a historically accurate depiction of Spartan life and the Battle of Thermopylae. Those are just used as the backdrop for lots of sexy macho warrior porn.