That scene was right up there with Large Marge and the nightmare scene from Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure for keeping me up at night. *shudder*

That was one of my favorite series growing up. Fun Fact: there’s a second season where they travel to China. It’s … weird. 

I’d agree with you if this were yet another ignorant boomer from some provincial backwater who’s just discovering trans people for the first time, but this is JK Rowling. She’s been at the head of a massive media empire for decades. People, no doubt her publicists and handlers and all the rest, have no doubt been…

Counterpoint: fuck that. I have some family friends who are in their 80s, and the first thing they said to me and my partner when they found out one of our colleagues was transitioning was, “so, you mentioned that ‘she’ is actually ‘he’? We’d like to meet him, because around here we don’t get to learn much about trans…

I’ve said it many times that Joe Biden needs to win in November, and I will phone bank as much as I possibly can to do my part to make sure that a Biden victory happens.

It’s pretty amazing to me how—-coming back here after a couple months hiatus—-I find that virtually all the political coverage has been moved over to TheSlot, where I can get yelled at by BernieBros and read a daily series of articles about how Joe Biden is The Worst™ (really enjoying watching Tara Reade facing…

Pedantry Corner: the past tense of “strive” is “strove.”

Ever since this pandemic started and I read about all the angry assholes refusing to abide by any sort of basic safety measures, I keep thinking of that kid in the testimonial video for Patrick Swayze’s pedophile character in Donnie Darko. The kid’s mother talks about how he used to wet the bed and cry a lot, but now…

I’m almost thankful TROS was such a shitshow, because I’ve always felt TLJ was really underappreciated and had a lot of potential if they’d had the guts to follow through with it. 

It’s like we saw the mountain of dezinformatsiya coming down on us with the whole Burisma thing, and decided we’d just let ourselves get buried.

Her lawyer is a former Sputnik employee, ffs:

Maybe we should also point out, since this is the actual end-game and saying otherwise is disingenuous at best:

I’m actually going to disagree. Ahsoka is what the Force should be: neither Jedi, nor Sith.

I like the part where Jonathan Nolan is not-that-subtly burning down all of the Westworld stuff and replacing it with what seems like a different version of Person of Interest.

Call them a racist piece of shit to their face every time you address them, and see how quickly they get #triggered by “just words.”

oh. Sorry, I misunderstood. And yes, I agree, on all points. Joi was by far the most interesting character.

Nitpick Corner: Blade Runner 2049 was Villeneuve, not Nolan, which is why we’re talking about it in this thread in the first place.

Also, too! A lot of the so-called prudishness of the 19th century was a reaction against their elders, of the Regency and earlier eras, who were absolutely all about that kink. The most fashionable women in Paris at the turn of the 19th century, the Merveilleuses, went out wearing dresses made out of loose, sheer…

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Except that Blade Runner 2049 had all of that, too (it really did: I think it’s a superb film), and yet it didn’t perform well at the box office at all (260M on a budget of 150-180M. That’s … decent, but not great, and definitely not what it deserved).