It was obvious to me that the conservatorship was BS, but this article really laid it out in the starkest terms. I’ve been steaming since reading it.

I haven’t commented on here since The Great Defection but I have to chime in on this.

THANK YOU. Something all of these criticisms have yet to address is what exactly TLJ was saying that was bold and new. What is being said that wasn’t either implicit in other films or explicit in the extended media? Where, exactly, could this story go that would appease this need for subverted expectations and no fan…

Thank you! The real reason I hated The Last Jedi is that it ultimately didn’t take the overarching story in any real direction. For everyone’s talk of how much it changed things, the state of our main characters was largely unchanged by the end of the movie. Kylo Ren was bad, Rey had no teacher, Finn had a reason to…

Yeah, my issue with TLJ all along is that it has some really terrific moments—including one, the throne room scene, that’s among the very best in the franchise—but they never cohered into a fascinating movie, and the whole thing ended up being just an interesting mess.

But in this case, it’s also a dig at its predecessor, a repudiation of Johnson’s attempt to break free of the past and take the narrative in a new direction

He looks like the world's worst undercover cop.

Sorry to step on your hypothesis, but Lou Gossett Jr. is Iron Eagle.

Not Pictured: The exact thing that the title of the article specifically refers to.

Where is the hoisting??

The comments are SO weird to me. A wedding doesn’t have to be an EVENT. It can just be a happy celebration. The dinosaur didn’t steal the entire thing. Did people look at the Dino? Fuck yeah. But that doesn’t take anything away from two people promising to love each other.

What a productive two days you’ve had.

Counterpoint: shut up.

One thing I hate about writers is when they write something that causes a swift and broad backlash, and their defense is “You misunderstood what I meant,” as if that is a valid defense for a person whose job it is to convey ideas to third-parties via the written word. I write for a living, and if someone who is…

Holy shit, we get it, Deadspin hates this World Cup. Fuck man, I haven’t seen this concerted effort from a publication to ensure the world knows their opinion about something since The Ringer closed shop after GoT ended.*

Dude, you are so edgy and cool.

Dark Phoenix is one of those stories that has a massive reputation among comic fans of a certain age but which doesn’t actually hold up very well in 2019 (see also: Killing Joke, The.) The problem is that its two big hooks are “a superhero turns evil!” and “a superhero dies!” Those were novel and shocking turns in…

We are hairless, hunter-gatherer great apes evolved within an uncaring universe of arbitrary physical laws. You, are a delusional ape desperately clinging to a tattered fantasy in a cowardly, failing effort to cope with your own horror of self-annihilation.

I don’t understand the tone of this post.  What this kid is doing is fucked up and antisocial on multiple levels.

I work over by Atlantic Station and they’re definitely everywhere. I’ve started taking them down to the basement of the parking deck where GPS doesn’t work as a fuck you to BIRD.