All this “I always thought Joss Whedon was trash and his shows suck” comments are tiring. Plenty of great shows and movies were made by complete assholes.

Exactly! I’m pretty sure that I knew about what she’s talking about in like 2004 or 2005, but as you said there was no paper trail, so it was all too easy to brush aside. And honestly before the Kai Cole article, I wonder how much it would’ve been believed or would it have been passed off as sour grapes.

I’ve been waiting for someone to finally call him out for specific stuff. It seemed like it had to be there, but Fischer’s allegations were so vague and ambiguous. Which made it easy for Whedon to remain silent because he wasn’t being accused of anything.

It was something I was aware of, but found easy to...not dismiss, exactly, but take with a grain of salt because I could never find an original source (think it was stuff she had said at conventions, and therefore there was no real paper trail).

Even at the time I was uneasy about the cult of personality that surrounded Whedon and his work. It’s difficult to describe but within a few years, something just felt off, from the cast performances to the energy to how it felt like the shows had lost all purpose beyond his brand. Everything. It’s hard to even watch…

The thing though is that what Carpenter is saying has pretty much been an open secret since it happened. We should’ve been listening then and not letting his “feminist credentials” sway us. And I 100% count myself as someone who should’ve done better then, as I heard it and dismissed it.

See, Ray? These are called details.

Yeah, give it to Bryan Fuller...so he can work on it for a few months and then storm off over creative differences. 

Normally I would say...”sure why not”. Yeah, not so much this time. This already sounds awful. Instead, enjoy the sounds of a boss version of the theme, by Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox.

At least with GameStop there’s a lot of potentially interesting angles to go down (the history of short-selling, Reddit culture generally, broader questions in financial regulation, ideological links to the Occupy movement, etc.). This story, on the other hand, is pretty much a one-liner.

Broadcast quality cameras and sound equipment are astonishingly cheap to buy and rent now, you can edit a 4k feature on a mac mini... So yeah there’s not really a barrier of entry to making a documentary any more and since Netflix etc started buying them there’s been something of a gold rush to knock out something…

Between this and the multiple GameStop documentaries, I feel like documentarians are just getting desperate to latch onto something big on the internet. I blame the massive success of the Fyre Fest documentaries.

Those guys will always be there and they will continue to go through life thinking they’re successful. I guarantee every one of them thinks he pulled himself up by his bootstraps.

Mine dropped me off at camp, then didn’t pick me up after.

Your kidding, right?

I’m so happy my parents never tried to send me to camp. 

Shazam! is the shizznit. He’s so enthusiastic, he has an exclamation point as part of his name! He is a superhero who actually enjoys having super powers. He knows how to have fun. I’d feel really bad for him if he had to spend time with those dour DC losers. His exclamation mark would have to be replaced with…

Thank you for the small reassurance in this dystopian hellscape. Not to mention, his sales were low in the first place so quadrupling them doesn’t mean much.

Can we talk about how pitch-perfect that 80s sitcom intro pastiche was?

There is a market for this sort of thing, and it’s served quite handily by Youtube, which is free, has better brand recognition, and uploads more new content in a day than Quibi could in a month.