“Maybe the poison drips through”

I think there’s a story to be written here about removing Runaways and Willow - two heavily queer genre shows - right before Pride month. Of all the tent pole Marvel and Lucasfilm shows so far, I believe Willow is the only one to center an LGBTQ+ relationship so far. And then they do this in part to stop paying…

Yeah, it’s one of the weird details they dropped to make the High Republic era different from the prequels - they’re explorers in a peaceful but much rougher galaxy! But it’s weird because it immediately makes it harder to do KOTOR which fans want to see so much and which has been referenced a ton. The current…

I know someone that knows someone that was involved with the show. They’re also (at least some of them) MAGA fascists, but don’t tell that to the show’s audience.

There’s even a whole documentary about it!

I don’t think you’re totally wrong, and I wasn’t endorsing using it as a crutch for bad writing. I imagine that even good writers get blocked occasionally. I wasn’t even suggesting its use in a final draft. But I imagine a situation where someone could use it to throw a few different possibilities around a problem to…

I think using AI as a tool is totally fine, as long as there’s actually a human working on the movie. It’s not all good or all bad. Obviously an AI alone is going to produce a generic product that lacks the soul of what actual human writers would create, and obviously its overuse would absolutely destroy the industry.…

It was not one of the original core complaints but has been lightly thrown in there last minute. They probably need another full strike to deal with it, imo.

I think they need to strike now before those AIs get even better, to protect the future of the industry.

Yeah, debating whether a 1st century BC Greek would be considered “white” by the standards of the 21st century is utterly pointless. The social systems you’re talking about didn’t exist then, or were different. 

> she argues that “Cleopatra was eight generations away from these Ptolemaic ancestors, making the chance of her being white somewhat unlikely.”

This is straight up false, because the Ptolemaic dynasty was horrifyingly incestuous. What is true is that we don’t know the identity of her mother or her grandmother, who…

The Pride Night is at Disneyland, not WDW

Which sounds way better than what Heathers season 1 tried to be.

Why are the Pink Ladies being reimagined as empowered former outcasts? Aren’t the Pink Ladies in the original kind of rich snobs, the pre-cursors to the Heathers or the Mean Girls? 

I don’t know that I’d call Chicago or Sweeney Todd “self-serious”. Sweeney Todd especially is practically already a dark comedy. It’s not meant to be set in a serious world, it’s a send up of penny dreadfuls and operas. But even then, not the serious operas, but the lurid B-movie kind that were already not…

There’s two versions. One is Vanilla, and the other is WotLK. The second lauched as BC Classic but then updated to WotLK.

I don’t think they need to do Cataclysm like this article hints. I think Vanilla, Wrath, and the current game about covers all audiences. 

> “He’s very disciplined in that way, and also he’s very British in that way,” Cox says. “The American inclination is to milk it for all it’s worth.”

Doctor Who celebrates its 60th Anniversary this year.

The way you describe the “Fuck the North” bit makes it sound like a direct rip-off of Trainspotting 2's excellent “No More Catholics” bit.

Holy shit.

When it started, I was disappointed they were going with Final Countdown, rather than the obvious choice. But then it turned into a mash-up, and I was satisfied.