Reading some of the court documents especially around some of the stuff that got thrown out, it does feel like she was being held to a different standard to other alleged “divas.”

It’s also presentation. Lizzo is sexual, sexy and bold. There are some people who are bothered that a fat, Black woman isn’t asking permission. There are lots of people who don’t like the audacity of her not being attractive to them and her not caring.

The problem with jailhouse snitching is that there is often a lack of other evidence to support the testimony and the snitcher is often being bribed in order to get them to lie, as in, “We’ll reduce the charges against you if you help us convict someone who is possibly innocent.”

He was a jailhouse snitch, being a rat is bad enough but now he’s Mr. Moral Majority, and there are several accounts of him being a terrible person and terrible to work with, particularly to women, so which of those do you want to pick?

Tim Allen is a coke snitch, always worth remembering, really sad the reaper took John Ritter instead of him

Foundation still hasn’t been filmed. There’s an interesting SF show by that name that borrows a few concepts and character names from the novels, but it bears about as much similarity to the source material as the show Hannibal had with the Thomas Harris novels.

Meanwhile, I’d like to see Earthsea get a proper…

“the government doesn’t forget and let things go.”

Well, the media (and us, by extension) keep falling for it, don’t they? “Ooh, they’ve really got him now! He’s gonna have to face the music this time!” It’s what they were all saying after Muller, after the first impeachment, the second one, the insurrection hearings, each of the four insurrections, and now this…

One of them started pushing 40, changed their mind about wanting kids, but then cheated on their wife and got another woman pregnant, so the wife - who had wanted children but prioritized her marriage to a childfree man - had to freeze her eggs while watching another woman have what she should’ve rightfully (as his…

The pass being given. The comments that amount to “his behavior is shitty, but he’s a brilliant comic.” That’s the getting away with.

this definitely doesn’t sound like a bunch of shit you made up

Seriously

“But I also think not trying to drag his ex”

maybe we should wait to read the fucking book to find out whether what she’s doing is “respectable” (according to you) or not

The book, “Dune” is a standard Campbell hero’s journey that deals with colonialism.

It’s a good change, but a mealy-mouthed rationalization.

I am 100% fine with Villeneuve changing what he wants to tell his own story. That is what adaption is all about. I am not a fan of him implying he is showing what Herbert really wanted to say because Herbert is not here to chime in on any truth of that. He also still seems to not 100% understand Paul based on the…

Exactly, Paul is trapped by his visions of the future. No matter what path he takes, people will kill and die in his name. Paul is not power hungry, he had power thrust upon him and the curse of knowing exactly what his actions and inactions will do in the future. He fights against his gifts until he eventually walks…

Like on Animaniacs when the pompous pianist says "I will not perform this concerto as Shubert wrote it, but as he intended to write it!" only this isn't expertly timed trenchant comedy.

It works. Through Chani’s eyes, we see Paul for who he truly is: a man as power-hungry as the rest of them.