Yeah, this really seems like not a helpful comparison. Leia was a downright subversive take on the princess/damsel trope given the context of the time, and trailblazing for many heroines since. If we were talking about films made relatively recently that would be one thing, but this comparing films from 40 years ago…

What a stupid comment. Why would I WANT these women to have all been harassed? Or want to believe that Franken is a serial harasser?

Look, man, I liked Franken. I read “Lies and the Lying Liars” way back, my dad and I used to listen to his radio show, I met him once and got his autograph (he was a bit of a surly jerk…

Breaking: movies made in the 70s and 80s are not as inclusive as movies made in 2018.

I am certainly not complimenting him. He’s a piece of shit who should be in jail, I’m sure. It’s just that his advance knowledge of this (by a few hours or whatever it was, at which point stories were certainly already being written by the reputable journos who first reported it) doesn’t really mean anything other…

Stone is pretty well-connected in the media and he’s seemingly known about other genuine stories before they were published. The news business is a small place and stuff spreads around; there were a bunch of tweets from journalists about Louis CK earlier in the the day that story finally broke too, and largely that’s…

Okay first off, try reading what Brunton actually said again. The “conflicting” reports from him can be at least partly attributed (according to him) on various outlets only reporting parts of what he said. And the Observer reporter himself kind of said it best: long-term memory can be kind of faulty, and it’s…

If you actually read what he said there, you’d see that he says that the Observer writer took him out of context and purposefully misconstrued what he actually said.

If you actually read what he said there, you’d see that he says that the Observer writer took him out of context and purposefully misconstrued what he actually said.

Seems a little dishonest not to include the part where the victim said he wasn’t actually walking back the story at all.

A whole bunch of women came forward separately to tell basically the same story. If you really believe that’s a conspiracy you’re just a moron.

Nah.

I checked mine and it was populated by just a few people, namely a handful of celebrities that were shamelessly promoting themselves (and Wil Wheaton quoting cartoons...jesus, is he ever not tweeting?). More to the point, most of Weird Twitter and the otherwise genuinely hilarious (and thoughtful) people I follow…

I definitely guffawed at that, but it does turn out Teras Kasi was/is a known thing in the expanded universe (it’s mentioned in Shadows of the Empire, which I read way back in the day but I guess I don’t remember too well) and not just that game.

I do recall thinking 5 was perfectly “fine,” but it did have the feeling of a show that was obviously winding down from its prime years. Frankly, I’m not even sure I remember much from 5, which probably isn’t the best sign. At its best the show just kind of floated along after 4, which was the last season where the…

God, let this show die in peace. That final season was terrible and the finale was embarrassing. After season 4 or 5 it already wasn’t the same.

No, I’m with you. The final season was dreadful, even a slap in the face to earlier seasons to some extent, and to the characters. Season 6 wasn’t amazing either, but 7 was terrible. I cringed through that finale.

I still often enjoy it but yeah, repetition has set in and his pieces often feel frustratingly close to being truly great, but are undercut by some issue. I think one thing that frustrates me is that he is pretty good at examining structural problems with some issue or another but never quite seems able to examine it…

His first action out of office was taking huge speaking fees from banks he was supposed to be regulating months earlier. If you still have the capacity to be disappointed in him you haven’t been paying close attention.

You don’t know what a “review” is, do you?

You don’t have to actively hate someone to want “small government” (bullshit term, sorry) policies that disproportionately hurt gay people.

Jesus, so I haven’t actually watched the show in a while, is that what Julie Kavner’s voice performance sounds like now? Not that I fault her, but she just sounds tired as hell.