The AV Club

It's a little like when climate change deniers point to the 2% of dissenting opinions among climate scientists as "controversy".

Let's also clarify - Engineers are not Scientists. A great deal of the training is shared to be sure, and they have academic tracks that are not dissimilar. But at a fundamental level, the very premises are quite different. Burden-of-proof thresholds for engineering disciplines are far lower than what most science…

I'm still somehow surprised, more than six months in - that no one's taken the opportunity to just straight up flip him the bird in the Oval.

But then - how else are they to learn our economy-shattering secrets of clean coal?

For years, I've had a mental mise en scene of the pitch at the WB for Smallville:

I mean - that's pretty much the exact trajectory of the article, as Baum himself wrestles with the ethics of poking around Ms. Goldberg's past.

One has to dig down into Jewish identity literature to find the themes that assimilation and identity erasure are continuations of cultural genocide.

That's a tautology that's neither falsifiable nor testable.

I don't need him to be. I don't the author is asking him to be.

I have no doubt about that being true of his spy network in Kings' Landing. But I'm trying to imagine that wound up being true across the entire vast extent of his international intelligence network.

So, here's the thing about these representational issues (and one can tie in more general diversity problems in many other avenues well beyond pop culture). It's eminently reasonable and possible to defend every single possible granular instance in this movie where white stories took precedence over imagined…

That's exactly why I'm searching for perhaps a small throwaway line or something explicit that I missed.

Camp tastes can vary wildly by virtue of their appeal directly to subjective, often base aesthetics. There's really no objective critical approach to explaining the small cult that grew around Wiseau and The Room.

…which is still a narrative choice that doesn't refute the author's thesis that Dunkirk is problematic in omission and exclusion, in contrast to the stories it chose to tell.

This just took me mentally to Halle's bit in Movie 43 with Stephen Merchant, and - well…

There's there's something to be said about distinguishing movies that are objectively bad, but have the capacity to be entertaining for a specific arch camp aesthetic.

In fairness, my seven-pound Miniature Pinscher roleplays as a dog ten times his size.

Ugh - LARPer breeds are always the most annoying at the dog park.

…and yet the one show I remember addressing that was, of all things, Sex and the City.