I can’t pretend to have some comprehensive understanding of the left that wraps all it’s views into a single logical platform. There is a lot of infighting and internal inconsistencies, I agree. But just speaking from my perspective, I don’t view all of the right as scum; just the ones who voted for president scumbag.…

Well, good, I hope they do turn on him.  And if they choose those reasons to do it, it just further proves to me that they’re scum who don’t really care about our rights or freedoms but will just back any horrible person who promises not to take their guns.

Yeah, you’ll have to forgive me for not taking gun owners claims of being anti-fascist very seriously after throwing all their support behind an actual fascist. And if gun owners think that increased gun regulation will spark a civil war, well, they’re the ones that are threatening it. If you want to prevent civil…

Oh sure, because the NRA and gun owners just haaate Trump, and if he wanted to install a new fascist dictatorship in this country, I’m sure they would do eeeeverything in their power to stop him.

Thanks for educating me about the AR, thats something I probably should’ve known before spouting off. I can kinda sympathize with that idea and wanting to be prepared in the case of some violent right wing up-rising and I have to protect myself from nazis, or whatever, but those are reasons based purely on paranoia.…

Ugh, goddammit. I will never understand the pathological attachment to guns. Its an inanimate fucking object, a piece of metal that’s about as useful and practical as a medieval suit of armor, and the issue over whether people should be allowed to have them is so cut and dry to me, it’s insane that anyone still argues…

Oh, is it time for another conversation about separating art from the artist?  

Sort of. At least the Star Wars franchise is trying to branch out with new characters, and the last movie took enough risks that it pissed off a lot of nostalgics. Star Wars withstand a certain amount of risk because that shits always gonna make money, but yes, they can only go so far with it. I’m probably not going…

Dude, when I said the Muppets are no longer a ”living, breathing thing”, I did not mean that literally. I understand that they are objects made of felt and foam rubber. The rest of your comment just reinforces my argument, except I don’t believe the formula can be recreated because the creative impetus that started…

Thats exactly what I was thinking of, but at least the Simpsons has been running continuously for the last 20 or so years, and at this point has probably become its own thing. Its not my thing, so I wouldnt know because I stopped watching a long time ago, but I’m sure it still gets new fans that are into whatever its…

Yeah, at least if Henson were alive and still in control of it, he could take risks with his own creation and nobody would question it because it was his thing. I don’t doubt there are sincere creative people still behind the Muppets, but they’re working off of blind nostalgia the same as everyone else, and worse…

Whats that from?

No one is ever gonna get the Muppets “right” again, because they’re no longer a living, breathing thing. They’ve become an excercise in pointless nostalgia, and no version is ever going to restore whatever vague quality they used to have, because that quality isn’t based on a collective memory, it’s based on millions…

Not at all. I guess I can accept your point of view from the angle of seeing the same actors play completely different versions of the same character and feeling like thats inconsistent, but I still think you’re applying a double standard to the characters of Batman and Superman. My take on Batman is totally different…

Oh, and I’ve seen Paranoia Agent.  It’s great, but I don’t know, to me those are apples and oranges.

I think I was aware of those things...I don’t really remember. I know I’d seen classics like Akira, GitS, I think I’d seen Perfect Blue and some other stuff, but I don’t think I was judging FLCL on the same standard as those. I didn’t hold a half-hour show by the same standard as a movie. On the other hand, I had seen…

I’ll meet you halfway and agree the CGI was bad, along with some of the fight scenes. But I think it’s a strength of the movie that it was able to overcome those shortcomings by just telling a pretty good, effective drama. You care about these characters, and you actually care about the villain. That’s way more than…

Well, then how do you feel about a version of Superman that destroys an entire city and snaps a dudes neck? How do you feel about a version of Batman that mows down criminals with a machine gun? You don’t want to see realistic depictions of violence or mental illness from characters like Wolverine or Professor X, so…

I think the iconography is part of the problem with these characters.  I’m sure many people have a fond, nostalgic affection for these characters, but I doubt this feeling is attached to any specific narrative.  Put them in something like a story and they fall apart, I mean, unless you know how to tell a good story…

I love FLCL for it’s tone. Despite all it’s craziness and surreal imagery, the show had a great feel for the banal and everyday, small town existence. The music especially gave it this very warm vibe that kept it from ever getting too dark, like a Hirokazu Koreeda or Richard Linklater movie, but with robots and…