I think the indifferent-to-hostile assessment of Resurrections was pretty fair. The movie has a good setup, but completely squanders it.

Johnny Chesterfield Q. Fucking Christ.

my character being picked apart by people who don’t know me and disrespecting my name. I didn’t sign up for this shit

The ABC’s of conservatism:

There’s a weird conservative tendency to think they are being attacked by simply being in a presence of someone who they assume has more liberal values than they do.

That is a really bad description. Hes not inherently buffoonish or dumb-the original series makes a big point about how intelligent, principled and brave he is-most people dropped into a foreign country with no knowledge at all of the language or customs wouldve done a lot worse.

at this point i will 100% take a greatest hits Alien(s) remix. i realize the irony in having made the opposite complaint about Star Wars, but at this point we could really just use a solid horror thriller with xenomorphs.

Has a lot of the Alien Isolation too.

It looks so blah. And Star Wars is so much better without Jedi and Sith.

The solution to text chains is to leave them immediately.  Like the instant you get a text with more than one recipient, leave that shit.  Then claim you didn’t know what it was and thought you were being hacked or phished or whatever.  There’s a nice grace period there.

I’m glad that people are starting to realize that Schneider was not the sole perpetrator of all of this alleged abuse and misconduct (and that he, perhaps, didn’t engage in any of that at all), but was rather a crucial part of enabling and normalizing this sort of behavior at Nick. From what I have read, it seems like…

This maybe my favorite episode of the year. My friends would want me to take care of their kids and like Larry I hate fucking children, yeah I buy my friends kids anything they want but I don’t want to spend time with them. I rather be the uncle who sees them once a year for X-Mas and gets them what they want.

Red flags ignored time after time after time. As a kids network that employs child actors, Nickelodeon had and has a special responsibility to look after these performers, even if it’s some other company like Schneider’s Bakery or Tollin/Robbins handling the day-to-day. And you have these people like the PA, like…

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU HIRE HIM AGAIN ON A KIDS SHOW AFTER HE GETS OUT OF PRISON?!?!

I felt seen watching this episode. Those text chains are truly terrible.

Larry saying, “FUCK YOU!” to the inspirational quotes on the text chain pretty much sums up the human experience.

Those who sit on the fence merely get impaled.

Right. But he did MAKE a choice. He CHOSE to set it in a country with highly partisan rhetoric, lots of armed jagoffs, a free press routinely under attack moreso now than ever before, etc. Holding him responsible for that artistic choice is not asking much.

“Garland explained that it’s about political divisiveness in general and our insistence on ‘talking and not listening.’ He said there are politicians and people in the media ‘on both sides of the divide’ who are ‘wonderful’ and that ‘left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state’ and nothing…

No, the prequels haven’t been “normalized” or redeemed. Showing them on regular cable a lot doesn’t make them better. Excusing them as “children’s films” or pointing out that Rise of Skywalker is worse doesn’t make them better or justify their low quality.