Plenty of us carry the cost by buying the tickets (and convincing friends to buy tickets too), which is just as critical a component as getting the media created in the first place, since one of the major arguments is "but these movies do poor at the box office".

How does this test pull a movie out of context? It's simply a very straight forward, unambiguous test. It's needed because in trying to talk about fair and equal representation, it highlights the central points.
1: Do they even show up as more than background (2 named characters)
2: Are they shown with their own, unique…

That's why I said "in context". The joke of Avatar being cribbed from Pocahontas, Fern Gully, or Dances with Wolves wasn't because the story was a bad one, but that we've gotten so many of this story.
It's why we talk about "plot-by-numbers" movies, or why TVTropes is so fun to read. Analyzing patterns across hundreds…

Yeah, art isn't experienced one piece at a time. It is forever viewed in context of all other art and life experienced. It's why you can go back and watch a movie years later and have a completely different take on it.
And saying that it's useless in critiquing movies is also incorrect. That's the whole damn point of…

You could almost compare it to "the black guy always dies first" rule. It's not so much a benchmark of quality, but an observation revealing a trend across many movies.

Still missing the point.

Maybe remembering wrong, but didn't IK need a new heart after the beating PB gave Ricardio?

And then to tease us with the "good nooch" hitting the arm just to have the flower pop out was just mean. In the good way.

Finn's relationship with FP, as well as FP's rise to rule the Flame Kingdom, Ricardio the Heart Guy is dead, Billy is dead (and skinned), Abraham Lincoln is dead, The amount of loss between Marceline, her dad, and Ice King is more than most shows manage in their entire run. And theirs plenty of other losses as well.
And…

Plenty of shows like to tease big things, (thinking of all those promos of "ONE OF THESE CHARACTERS WILL DIE!") but for AT to double down and follow thru with the arm thing is pretty impressive.
The funny part is I had JUST discovered those cut storyboards from a ways back with Billy telling Finn his dad was alive (and…

I always thought it would be interesting to see an alternate, aged up Bubblegum. Queen Bubblegum, I guess. I think it'd be a kind of dark episode, enhancing some of her bad traits and stripping away her idealism. And this is why she stays where she is. She's at that balance of wisdom and authority with hope and…

And from personal experience, I can say it reminded me of introducing an S.O. to tabletop gaming. With a friend you'd be more "this is just how we do it" or "you're playing it wrong", but you wouldn't dare say that to the giver of nookie.
So you let them take the reins, and all the while quietly cringe and try to give…

They're undead. You can basically do anything you want to them and it still counts as a "good" act in DnD

Actually, it made me think of the irradiated ghost rock bombs from the Deadlands game and fiction.
Basically combine a nuke with the spirit goop from Ghostbusters 2.
And in that world, the detonation of those bombs not only broke down the barriers between the "real" world and the spiritual, it also let loose the Four…