Oh yeah it’d be Who for me.

See I think there are definitely criticisms to be made of The Acolyte, but for once this didn’t feel like a short story padded to a full season of TV. Maybe it’s just that each installment was relatively short but it felt like a perfectly well paced story to me. I never got the same feeling of “we’re drawing this out…

Well I mean that’s part of the thing, I don’t think the “nepobabies” are a problem because they’re always only a fraction.

Art and culture is kind of essential to a society continuing to function, and if the arts are inhabited only by the wealthy you get art that doesn’t understand over half of the society it comes from. 

To me it’s not so much a non-issue as a symptom of a larger problem- that is, it’s harder than ever to try to make a living in the arts/entertainment unless you have enough money that you can afford to be unemployed for a while or work jobs that have flexible schedules so you have time for auditions and such.

Frickin’ PS1 game

Hell and even the big movies can show something like a 50% drop after the first week- I feel like the MCU especially prioritized seeing something early so as not to be spoiled. In 2019 there was almost no room for anything to get word of mouth- since the pandemic there have been a few cases just because schedules…

To a certain extent Netflix, with their shift to original programming, did spark the massive escalation that’s now a problem- it’s not just that everyone put out their own streaming service (itself not a great idea) but they all felt compelled to spend absurd amounts of money on original content exclusively for those…

At some point though I think we actually do need to look at what the average ticket price is and how it compares to the rate of inflation and so on because, like, it does seem to be too much but how much room is there for theaters on this? 

Problem is that’s a good recipe for killing those genres altogether because guess what? Streaming’s not that good a profit generator either! That’s what the studios all found out, the revenue from streaming is weird and unreliable. If Netflix makes a comedy, maybe that contributes to their total subscriptions, maybe…

JKR and other transphobes are basically asking for society to actively tell trans women “You are wrong, you are not what you say you are, and you are a danger to ‘real’ women and cannot be trusted around them.” They view trans women as delusional freaks at best, liars at worst. 

Oooh she’d be really good at something like that

I can’t find a good-sounding clip of his ‘Humming Song’, where he sings a tender love ballad and hums over all the parts that are a little too risque for the audience.

J.K. Rowling and the Refusal to Touch Grass

Welcome Back, Nathan. 

She was good in Ben & Kate. Give her more comedy.

There was nobody else like him.  

Iron Chef will never be as good without its original soundtrack (which was just cuts from Hans Zimmer’s Backdraft score that they apparently never had his permission for.) 

I understand and respect why Lynch would rather not even think about this movie ever again, though I still find it has a certain power and quality that I haven’t seen in any other sci-fi film, the quite-good Villenueve versions included. It feels like it genuinely comes from somewhere else, a glimpse of another world…

The TV edit has more footage but it also has a LOT of problems that aren’t in the original- it really tries to explain EVERYTHING, scenes are put together much more shoddily, and of course they had to screw up the music. It’s nice to see the extra stuff but it’s nowhere near a director’s version.