‘It’s not even sufficient to say “He’s 600 lbs because I want him to be.” That’s just fucking lazy.’

I will trust the opinion of someone named ‘Fat Ronaldo’ on this matter.

So your point is basically “why wrote this screenplay? Why not just write some other screenplay instead?”

As a fat person, I want to know who are all these people who are trying to turn being fat into some kind of protected marginalized class like it was a race. I’m not one to dismiss getting fat as merely a moral or personal failing, but I also do not give a shit about fat jokes, fat suits, fat humor, or fat whatever.…

Yeah to me it falls under the same issue of casting people with skeletal dysplasia to play dwaves in the Lord of the Rings projects. While its sounds like a great idea there are not many people with skeletal dysplasia who are physically able to ride horses at full speed and jump around and do the stunts those roles…

Yeah, there’s a substantial difference between “your doctor really wants you to cut out soda” and “your food is delivered because getting through doors and into a car is a long, arduous and painful process.”

Someone that size would have extreme difficulty getting to and from the set, going through makeup and wardrobe, and spending weeks of long days under hot lights.

She is correct that this film can give people the impression that all obese people are miserable but this was a play based on an obese man’s personal experience. We need to be able to tell all the stories, and this is one of them. 

Its just a shame to think of all the gay, 600lb actors who lost out on this role.

Comparing Hathaway and Lawrence to Pratt does not compute. That being said, I think this very media group (especially Jez) deserves some responsibility for the cycle because I remember seeing the headlines repeatedly criticizing Hathaway and Lawrence for simply existing.

Man, Kristin Bell’s line delivery in Veronica Mars was next level. The writing was top-notch and sharp, but it would be nothing without the perfect way she brought that character to life..

I wouldn’t categorize Glee as the best in any year in any category, not even singing or song covers (that goes to The Sing-Off). 2009 looks like a slow year for high school shows, so this is a glorified participation trophy. I’d put one of the other shows listed into 2009 and stick Suburgatory somewhere during its run.

What a weird way to start a review by suggesting that Brendan Gleeson is somehow not worthy of being on the show because he’s not an A-lister. As if the show is somehow slumming it by letting the frontrunner for the best supporting oscar win this year host. Throwing in that Miles Teller also isn’t that well known is…

Also, European or other real history simply doesn’t apply. Middle Earth is a created world. Life didn’t evolve over millions of years. Elves and humans “awoke” fully formed in the First Age. Even after thousands of years that’s not enough time for our world’s ethnic differentiation.

So they can adapt the stories, the characters, the languages, the music, the locations, etc... but melanin means the original material isn’t being respected.

Ismael Cruz Córdova is somehow managing to convince me for a few minutes each week that he is a warrior elf, something no other actor has managed to do. I can’t quite explain it; there’s just something about his bearing and demeanor that makes me think yep, that’s what a warrior elf would do. So whatever process led…

It seems unlikely that the massive review bombing campaign that occurred before any episodes aired are the result of legitimate criticisms of the show.

Racist gatekeeping nerds are the most fragile fucking losers on Earth.

Europe always had POC and evidence of them was intentionally and systematically removed from the historical record in the 19th century by racist historians in Europe and the U.S.

My issue us that no one seems competent to rule. In GoT you kinda hoped that Tyrion, Margery or Sansa would end up on the throne because they all showed varying degrees of capability by the end. But on this show no one does, I am not saying we need to spend hours on the economic of Westeroes, etc. But at this point I…