I'm with you. I loved The Last Jedi. Was it perfect? No, but neither was the original trilogy.

That wasn’t really the political stuff I was talking about. But its totally not crazy given the political stuff I was talking about. Fringe right movements have been actively using pop culture as a wedge since before Gamergate. Which was an organized effort with roots in a lot of alt-right spaces. A couple different…

The fact that the Russians used The Last Jedi as a way to divide Americans is crazy. It's just a fucking movie, yet it was a lever to cause division.

We need to stop ceding the point on that. I keep seeing “fans hated it” and “everyone hated it”. The movie was well reviewed, made a shit ton of money, and made a lot of people very excited. I liked it a lot. Everyone I personally know in meat space liked it a lot. And at least a few of those people own fucking Storm…

I’ve been a Star Wars fan all my life. I saw Return of the Jedi in theatres.

I feel like I must be crazy or a population of one because I liked Last Jedi a lot better than Force Awakens.  I saw that movie in 1977 and many times after that.

It’s almost like what they needed was a big, tentpole franchise movie that subverted all those old stereotypes and killed the past, both symbolically and literally, while showing that the dream of a Jedi hero coming along and single-handedly defeating all the evils in the galaxy was nothing more than an illusion...

Lazy animators? Yeah, because it’s totally the animators who decide what their workload is. >_> :P

I am an animator. I do not work on anime. I have worked on a ton of stuff from kids shows to Adult Swim shows to Netflix shows. We aren’t lazy. There are schedule and production realities that don’t allow everything to be Disney quality. It’s called TV. Sometimes things need to be efficient. Sometimes things work…

My old man brain is still annoyed that it’s being called the “Naruto run” when the style predates Naruto.  It’s been an anime ninja staple for as long as I can remember.

Black Hole will always hold a special place in my childhood heart. Watched that movie a lot growing up. Some really fun designs and costumes too.

I came here to say this, but you said it much better than I could have. But it actually makes me a little cross that something so obvious was left out of the article. Star Wars may have been a motivation for it’s production, but only the later Trek movies ape those movies (especially the new ones, 66% of which are…

In a lot of ways it’s sort of the last of the 70mm “roadshow”-type adventure movies of the ‘60s and ‘70s, some of which were directed by Wise, like The Sand Pebbles. It’s definitely not in the same tradition as other ‘70s genre movies like Star Wars, CE3K, or Alien.

TOS is basically a distillation of themes from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, particularly John W. Campbell’s Astounding run. “Arena,” for example, is adapted loosely from a Fredric Brown story that appeared in the magazine in 1944. And many of the genre writers who worked on the show started their careers during…

Ah, TMP is such an underrated film. It is THE most Trek of the Star Trek movies. There are some genuinely nice character moments, interesting themes are explored, and the effects are just downright weird and beautiful at times. I didn’t care for it growing up, but I’ve come to love and appreciate it so much as I’ve…

Good god, this is dumb on so many levels. Let’s break it down a bit.

It is completely different from going to the bathroom, you chud. Or did you completely missed that part?

As the article mentions, breastfeeding in public is legal in the US. This is because breastfeeding is a means to feed an infant. It's not a sexual act.

I disagree, facial hair is natural, make-up is not

I disagree, facial hair is natural, make-up is not. If they want to fine, but don’t make false equivalences.