I get that you’re concerned, but I’m also not entirely sure what it is you think is missing from the table.

This motherfucker would indeed be surprised if that were to happen.

In the short term, I somewhat disagree. Ghost Deb’s content is red hot right now; this might’ve been her best episode yet. Somebody’s having exactly the right kind of fun writing and staging it, and Carpenter seems to be having a blast too. When Hall and Carpenter have scenes together, I’m fully engaged.

Well, shitting and fucking aren’t really “darkness,” at least not directly. I think their inclusion enables an author to explore a truer, more intimate kind of human darkness if they so choose.

I lack the talent and education to go against the conventional wisdom of Sondheim’s brilliance, but I feel like Robot-Devil from Futurama would’ve kicked that guy’s ass for the beginning of Into The Woods. YOU CAN’T JUST TELL THE AUDIENCE WHAT CHARACTERS ARE FEELING! THAT MAKES ME SO ANGRY!

Corpo is double-duty slang for both corporations and the people who serve them. It also flat-out sounds better than “corp.” How many people do you know that actually say the word “corp?” In the English-speaking world, at least, it’s an ugly, gulpy word. Maybe the Danish or the Dutch would be fine with it?

Hawkeye will be an interesting show that justifies its own existence if it stays focused on truly banal evil. Hawkeye himself already checks off one box: the guy who was part of tons of great things, but now just wants to be done and to enjoy the good stuff he’s miraculously gotten back. The feckless fiance will be an…

Speaking as somebody who didn’t read the books but also doesn’t give a shit, isn’t there already kind of a contract with the TV audience that it’s probably going to be a dude (because otherwise why bother, on the meta level, with all this bullshit about men?) and that that man has to be special in a very certain way -…

Yup, that’s about the size of it. It might seem unfair to basically every fantasy property besides LotR, but GoT gave millions of brand-new fantasy fans a taste of a more adult vintage. Unless one spat it out in disgust, it’s hard to go back to the more basic and sugary stuff, especially when it’s taking itself so…

I can’t blame Evil Gideon, but I also can’t really say that it has any kind of a point. It exists in a ridiculous universe where there are no rules and nothing makes any sense. “Protecting the timeline” is nonsense. It’s an epistemological impossibility at a minimum, and that completely undersells how fucked…

I don’t think I can emphasize just how utterly baffling it is to me that anybody could have a (non-meta) emotional reaction to anything that happened during this finale - at least not without getting double-banned.

It’s not like that’s Eternals’s only DCEU-ish sin. It also air-drops multiple godlike entities into a preexisting timeline, on the main planet where most of the other films have taken place. It’s the Captain Marvel problem times a million. That’s a recipe for audience fatigue and skepticism (and, at the fringes,…

The people who made those earlier games don’t even have that same spark anymore. Ex-Blizzard and Ex-Bioware, as labels, share a depressing commonality of seeming out of gas and devoid of fresh ideas. The Blizzard North guys in particular are a tragic case. They discovered the two worst ways to remind everybody they…

Well, one reason you can’t believe the show is ending next week is because the show is doing everything in its power to act like it is not ending next week.

His rebellious phase involved years of pointedly staying on Earth.

This is all well and good, but against all of it is set the classic arc of a video game player playing through the video game and winning. They do it via the protagonist, who usually (and in this case) also wins.

>Jesus Christ

Maybe so, but when you start building a near-reality world that includes larger-than-life stuff in it, you run into a no-win situation where holding so many “serious” historical events sacrosanct produces ever-mounting absurdity.

>And also: is there a “gays love designing and/or deploying weapons of mass destruction” stereotype I was unaware of?

If people feel the need to remove superficially-controversial iconography from a satirical takedown of American dysfunction as obvious as GTA, shit is fucked up. People should care. They should complain about it.