And because audiences reward that with money.

Hollywood is an industry and it cares solely about making money. Disney chooses Star Wars directors based on obvious criteria: previous success writing and directing geeky sci-fi series. I assure you that Kathleen Kennedy doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the color of the director’s skin or whether (s)he has a penis or…

Just sickening. Equally sickening: 100% of directors of Mario games have been Japanese men. Where’s the diversity Nintendo??

I don’t see how “period accurate” is a good argument for including a lot of rape scenes. I mean rape is “period accurate” *for our own time* and yet most dramas set in contemporary times don’t feel the need to include dozens of rapes per season...

I don’t think they planned to make a pro-Confederate show, along with their POC co-creators...The backlash to that was so weirdly uninformed and unreasonable.

It’s because their “prior level” of storytelling competency was dependent on adapting some excellent source material. Without it they had no idea how to string the plot beats together or even write decent dialogue.

My god this show is tedious. It suffers from the same issues as most Netflix series: bad pacing, bad editing, bad dialogue. The visuals are beautiful but that’s not enough.

Yeah I talked to several people who claimed to dislike TLJ because of “plot holes” and “changes to the mythos”, but whenever I really pushed them to elaborate, they would complain about: “the purple-haired lady”, the “Asian girl”, the Canto Bight sequence (because it “pushed a left-wing narrative”) etc. In other words…

Either you’re blind or delusional. As I said, go over the OT with the same fine-toothed comb of criticism and you’ll find that nothing makes sense. THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S SPACE FANTASY.

Great. Now sit through the first theee movies with a similar critical eye and point out every “insignificant “plot hole” (or weird wardrobe/storytelling choice)

That one doesn’t even require an explanation. The ships had gravity. The bombs began to fall on the ship. When they reached the vacuum of space they continued to fall, as physics demands...

“Maybe the LGBT+ community just aren’t as interested in comic books as non-LGBT+ “everyone else”.

“Nobody other than marginalized groups wants to read a story where the theme is about being marginalized.”

The problem is that straight people often don’t understand just how much fiction is ABOUT heterosexuality. You of course don’t think of it in those terms, because it’s normal for you. Take the new Rogue and Gambit comic. Is that ABOUT straightness? The whole comic revolves around the challenges of a straight on and…

Your percentages are way off. 64% of Americans are for gay marriage in the latest Gallup poll. That’s an average of all Americans, but among Jews, atheists, and mainline Protestants, it’s even higher. Only evangelicals and Muslims have a somewhat lower acceptance, but even there the trend is dramatically up. So how is…

I’m a Gay (TM) and I agree. I mean it’s only insulting if you think sucking fat cocks is somehow degrading or shameful, which is itself homophobia? Would a straight guy get insulted if I said “Go eat a pussy, you’d probably like it”?

“the urge to fill its scripts with Family Guy-esque sex jokes and asides warred with what seemed like a pretty sincere attempt to recreate the basic beats of Star Trek: The Next Generation”

There is no Family Guy humor in it. None. At all. Have you seen both Family Guy and the Orville?

The fact that it presents some new ideas and sheds fresh light on plot points that have been repeated time and again doesn’t mean it’s “shitting” on anything, so I disagree with the title. Yes it tries to be inventive and playful. No, it’s not destroying what came before.

a) Rogue One was amazing.