This. Every argument I’ve heard about it “influencing pop culture” or “movies” is either “3D” or “it made a ton of money”. None of those a cultural; they’re technical and financial.

Thank you for putting all this more succinctly than I could have. That pretty much sums up the ways this article reaches. I think the biggest overall reach is that they try to conflate technical impact with pop culture impact. They’re making the argument that Avatar had a cultural impact, but to most people that means…

This whole article seems an overly desperate stretch over and around the weird hollowness of the first Avatar movie and its lack of resonance in pop culture despite its box office success. Titanic gets referenced far more in pop culture than Avatar, and it came out 25 years ago. Toys and other Avatar merchandise…

I honestly feel like a good amount of progress has been made on that front. There’s still a long way to go, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the last time Queer as Folk was relevant.

luckily i do IRL social justice stuff too, so i can RP as much as i want and not feel like i’m faking being a super cool orc himbo with bone magic he definitely doesn’t use for nefariously hilarious purposes. 

It must be infuriating to do your job (very well, I might add) and spend the time and thoughtfulness that went into this article only to have dweebs make a snarky unfunny comment that also completely misses any point brought up in the article.

u do realize that this is my job and i dedicate my 9-5 to this lmao.

In my lifetime I have seen many characters like Madisynn start out as annoying one note jokes only to become a popular fan favorite.

For some reason, the exodus of commenters has left us with a high percentage of grumpy middle-aged dads doing their best Abe Simpson cosplay. It is what it is.

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So you’re “enraged” that the magazine didn’t overrule her wishes and force her to take the photos showing what she calls her “deformity” as though it was some fucking Elephant Man-esque “expose” to serve as a prop for your agenda...

This is a big failing of the reviews here and has been for a long time. They all can’t help comparing whatever they are watching to “the source material” when usually less than 10% of the people watching the show have read it.

Ok, but I really am curious how someone who hasn’t read the comic would react to this, since presumably that’s going to be the majority of viewers.

Imagine someone in charge of fucking Warner Brothers saying animation doesn’t matter(which is basically what this preso said). It’s not quite a hypothetical new Disney CEO saying “Fuck Mickey Mouse” but it’s close.  

I don’t know about all coffee, but ICED coffee is definitely queer culture. It is canon. Even if I, as a queer individual, have seldom partook.

Not a comics person, but I loved the Inhumans in Agents of SHIELD and would love to see more of them, especially Daisy and Flint.

Alex attempting (badly) to give Blue Steel is strangely on-brand for him, at least.

I prefer interesting Moira X to long-time mostly expository character (and corpse) Moira MacTaggert. I would think even an old-school Moira fan would prefer her alive and doing things to the last two decades of her just being dead.

Maeve’s eyeroll when she figured out where they were going were everything.