I mean, you have to use your words, big shooter. You said, “Not even what the Russians were plotting,” not “why they’re doing it (or how they even managed to.” “What” and “why” (not to mention “how”) are entirely different words. I’m sorry I didn’t respond to the words you didn’t write but meant, but my…

I don’t remember this, but the first movie I saw in theaters was Star Wars (Episode IV, a New Hope, yada yada - at the time, it was just Star Wars), at the age of 2, and I’m told I actually hid under my seat during Darth Vader’s first appearance. 

Yep, came here to say this. I didn’t see The Thing in theaters, but I damn near jumped out of my skin when watching this at home - which, given the subject matter, would have actually been a pretty appropriate thing to do.

The morning after I saw Blair Witch Project, I nearly attacked my landlord with a hammer because he was messing around with the garbage cans in the alley behind my apartment and I was in a state of such total unease that I was convinced something horrifying was going on back there before I realized what was actually…

Oh, man, with this AND Y: The Last Man in production, I’ll have to cross all my “please don’t fuck this up” fingers. 

Yes, and surely, that is something everyone involved could have predicted. 

Did you really not get what the Russians were plotting? They were trying to open a rift to the Upside Down. I...am not sure how they could have made that any clearer. I mean, the question then becomes “why,” but as with most military scientific endeavors of the era, I’m going to say that it was pretty easy to infer…

1) I am so, so glad to read through the comments here and see so much love for this scene. I’ve gone back and watched it three or four times since finishing the season, and it makes me smile like an idiot every time. As for Mr. Randall Colburn, I have to wonder what it must be like going through life as a person who…

The one thing I missed, especially given the proclivities of the main characters: An arcade. My parents would basically deposit me there while they did their shopping in my early mall days. 

That’s a fun exercise, but like many exercises, it doesn’t hold up in the real world, because there’s a ton of context you’re ignoring. Replacing the words “40-year-old white dude” with any combination of descriptors that involve marginalized groups changes the tenor entirely. You just can’t ignore the specifics,…

Not what I said, either, but cool. 

But, again, that’s not what she said. First, if you watch/listen to the speech, she actually specifically says studios should *add* seats for more diverse voices in criticism (9 per movie, to be precise), not stifle one voice in favor of another.

Well, that’s a Texas-sized 10-4, there, big shoots, but I’m not dumb - I’ve watched the whole “shpiel.” I’d suggest everyone watch it. It’s great!

Oh, and one more thing...

It’s weird what amounts to an “attack.” Her exact words:

Oh, I can’t agree with that at all. “Ignore it and it’ll go away” is what’s allowed misogyny to metastasize online in the way it has. And maybe it is a vocal minority, but they’ve found a way to weaponize the communicative tools the Internet and social media have put at the disposal to amplify their voices to the…

...you think American Pie is a dark comedy? Or that this scene is played as darkly comic? That’s just so, so strange. So strange. I’m not sure if literally anyone else in the world would couch it that way.

I don’t know how you can have followed sci-fi and fantasy across multiple forms of media over the past decade and not have seen the vitriol directed toward women in the arena from multiple angles, the stretching people have done to find ways to attack female creators *and* characters (the whole “Rey is a Mary Sue!!!”…

K.

Sigh. Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. It’s exactly like violent video games.