“This is historic: Leslie is the first Black actress to portray Batwoman in a live-action television or film production.” Er, yes, but she’s also only the second actress to play a Batwoman in an official live-action TV series or movie, so, while this is certainly a notable casting for network television, I don’t see…

Interesting question. I get the sense that he’s a very private person, so maybe he likes having a buffer between himself and all the random day-to-day interactions with the large numbers of technical/noncreative staff directing requires. The way he currently operates, he can spend the maximum time on creative…

An escapist fantasy about running off to a secret magic community, and completely ignoring the problems of the Muggle world despite having superpowers, and effing with the brains of those who catch glimpses of you, isn’t the most enlightened tale? Surely you jest!

It was a lighthearted remark, not worth getting worked up over. Deep breath. Relax. Everything’s fine. :)

“Might be time to revisit the problem of the high prevalence of unstable racist a-holes in the military.” - As a non-racist progressive, I did my part by serving in the Navy, thereby (theoretically) taking a potential job from an unstable racist a-hole. You’re welcome! :)

Wait, so, as a progressive, am I really being asked to embrace falsified identities and literal pictures of feces here, in support of the Twitter corporation?

No, I’m pretty sure the eye strain of traditional monitors is their relative brightness compared to their surroundings.

It truly boggles my mind that, over a year after the Kindle debuted, you still can’t plug a standard keyboard into that or similar devices. (From what I’ve gleaned on Amazon, the cheapest e-ink screen/tablet with that basic functionality costs around $500.) And, as a grad student who has to read a lot of PDFs, the…

I generally agree with the whole “don’t mock randoms” thing, but, there’s a plausible case to be made that if this person is this bad at gassing up, they’re a mortal danger to everyone who shares the road with them...

Which just makes it all the more frustrating that the family Wolvie and Charles visit for a peaceful midpoint dinner in Logan is some random nobodies, and not a retired/reformed Victor Creed. How amazing would that have been?! But I guess it was more important to reference the anti-mutant corn or some nonsense.

If by “best on day 1,” we understand that to mean “most likely to be able to afford to toil away in low-paying/unpaid internships long enough to build trust and relationships, without the added hurdle of being from an ethnic out-group,” then, in a discriminatory sense, yes.

Yeah, I’m as cishet white male as anyone, and even I know that. :P

Okay, so spoilers, apparently part of the big, very stupid twist is she was only feigning interest in him the whole time. This movie really needs a Spoiler Space, because the sheer idiocy of the twist really deserves discussion, as it recontextualizes the whole flick, Shyamalan-style.

Yanking whole episodes over brief scenes/cutaway gags? This is better than either adding disclaimers/apologies to the episodes, or, failing that, editing out the offending moments... how, exactly?

It’s named Columbus because the Anglo colonizers were building a large country in a hurry, and common reference points were valuable tools of sociopolitical cohesion. This really isn’t hard.

Steve Carell (57), x 0.5 + 7 = 36, > Mackenzie Davis (33). Half Your Age Plus Seven fail.

He’s in lots of You S2 episodes, and his character is central to the season-long plot. To suggest that he could be removed without mutilating the season overall is insane (not that you suggested that, just noting it for the record).

Because Abrams/Kennedy are lazy hacks who decided to rehash the OT rather than come up with an original story?

When you know that your child is a potential atom bomb of a destructive Force user, and then fail to give them the best parenting you possibly can, that doesn’t just make you a bad parent, it makes you a bad person, period. These movies are incredibly disrespectful to Leia.

Kylo Ren has no character development in any of this. He’s introduced as a former school shooter who whines about being drawn to “the Light,” as if that’s indicative of any kind of relatable psychology. It isn’t. These movies are badly written cartoons, even compared to the OT.