Yeah, Dany is not meant to have any self-awareness of her slide into darkness. It doesn’t mean the showrunners couldn’t have told Clarke about it. Surprising the cast has its place (hat tip to Alien) but by and large I reckon it’s better the actor know where the character is headed so they can make their early…

Absolutely. It was obvious from midway throught the first book/season that the whole point of GoT is that power corrupts. The dragons are the least subtle metaphor for that in the history of literature. And still there are people who didn’t get why Dany would have a heel turn despite it being the premise of the story,…

Not disagreeing, but there are two responses that come to mind: (1) the TV show didn’t really lean in on her zealotry; she was portrayed as more motivated by loyalty than ideology (was GRRM talking about readers’ or viewers’ misunderstanding?), and (2) about a third of the US population has no understanding that…

Trying to wiki up on comic book characters only confuses me more.

It’s so dramatic they made an entire musical about it!

Yes, but I was taking aim at the specific claims here by Banks, not the problem of sexism in Hollywood. I mean, I don’t really blame Banks for looking for reasons to deflect criticism. Perception is everything in the industry. It was more her choice of deflection I object to.

That’s a misreading of the report— there are unsolved murders of White and other non-Black victims, so 100% of all uncleared murders can’t be Black. The report actually says, ‘100 percent of the nation’s historic decline in homicide clearance was borne by black victims since clearance rates for white, Asian American…

Especially in the light of the success of EEAAO — two of the three action leads were women, and it had no trouble drawing an audience and winning tons of awards. Also Fury Road, Kill Bill, Aliens...

‘Hey, man! Check out my new wheels, they’re a pound lighter! Those protectors are there for the carbon fiber. They weigh a few pounds each, why do you ask?’

They were awake the whole time.

The pandemic didn’t help, but the bigger culprit is social media and its monetisation of attention-seeking morons.

I’d also add, as others have pointed out earlier, that the SAG-AFTRA members voted for the strike with 97.9% of the vote. The exemptions strategy was part of the motion that was voted on.

No they won’t prolong the strike. These waivers (i) prove that productions won’t become uneconomical under union contracts, (ii) reward producers who agree to the new conditions, and (iii) allow as many workers as possible (and not just WAG and SAG-AFTRA jobs) to maintain an income during the strike...which is the…

The distributors buying these shows will have to do so within the boundaries established by the filmmakers. It’s not like selling the show to a distributor invalidates all existing production contracts.

The comment about losing houses was from an anonymous source. I expect the Disney CEO is thinking this way, but he has not gone on record saying so and is extremely unlikely to do so.

To be fair, if he did that he would certainly be proving the point of the song.

Master and Commander was always cool, just took a long time for people to realise it.

Except, you know, that the strike itself should be generating more copy than the shows that have been deferred.

Because the extra layer of bureaucracy allows the city to get a slice of that sweet tow company extortion racket.

Yes indeed. They are getting *hit* twice, but *screwed* once.