Man, it does sting to see Noah leave as I really grow to love him as the host. It took some time for him to find that voice, it always does for everyone, but in the end he really created a space to have those funny and intelligent discussions on what was happening in the world.

I have to say that that response from the White House was delightfully ice cold.

What makes it weird is that, I mean, it is pretty much repeating the climax of the first WW film, except making it worse and gross on most levels.

That is what makes it so insane, in addition that they didn’t even do anything that different with Trevor. Meanwhile the Amazonians were just there, but Diana’s basically just shrugging at ever reconnecting with them.

I have a lot of questions about what that Jenkins treatment contained, especially considering what they did in WW84 and that it still had Johns contributing to it. Which is a woozy considering his track record on DCEU projects and the previous WW installment specifically.

Something I really like about the show is that not only are both Willow and Kit pretty much dicks, but I get why they are like that. That’s not to defend either of them, but rather they are setting up these character arcs for them. Additionally all of the main cast are flawed, but they are so in different ways that…

This show is wild. I mean it is tonally all over the place, the spacial distances make absolutely no sense and the time between events is nearly impossible to figure out. For example, after being kidnapped by corrupted nights, Elora manages to escape into a dark forest under a grey sky, only to end up at a cottage…

Before anything else, I legit started laughing after watching episode 6, I think, how similar thematically this show is to Dark. Like I get wanting to explore similar themes, but there are just so many things here that are so close to being the same, just in a different setting.

Finished the show and genuinely surprised how torn I am on it. I mean I liked it, thought the final reveal was a superb one that elevated the show on a fundamental level for me and I was left intrigued to anything that may follow. Additionally the show is absolutely beautifully shot, had several breathtaking scenes…

Hell, would still have been an actual ending for the questline.

I genuinely hope this is the case as unlike the writer of this article, I absolutely hated how the Peralez questline just ended. It felt like the developers ran out of time and couldn’t finish the questline, but for some reason kept it in the game regardless. If the DLC gives resolution to that questline, I’d be more…

Somewhat related, I was listening to the Plain English podcast on the FTX collapse and Sam Bankman-Fried, and one of the really revelatory parts for me there was how directly the host compared SBF to Holmes. How they both played up on these myths about being brilliant outsiders who represented something different…

I’ve mentioned this before in these discussions, but while listening to some really left-leaning podcasts last year it was genuinely shocking running into the hosts/guests just chuckling away Holmes’s actions as to them it was just another Silicon Valley rich person con. It is so deeply frustrating as not only do…

It’s kind of weird that you chose to only name Caroline Ellison in a responsibility question regarding the FTX/Alameda mess.

Overall a really good article that touches on the multitude of challenges.

Yeah, it’s harsh, but it’s also true. She’s dealing with a lot of those issues, but so are a lot of students in the very show itself. By the way, I don’t consider her irreedemable, but she herself takes those intentional actions that cause her to fail her classes. When the professor actually gives her a pretty…

Okay, I have to bring this up because it is mentioned in the recap. What the frat was doing was not cheating. Like at all, at least not at the university which I attended. If the teacher does not change their exams and someone who aced it previously leaves behind their own exam as an example for others to study in…

Even though this is explicitly stated in the article, I still need to confirm this as it is making me doubt my ability to observe the world.

Fair point, although my counter-argument would be that Norman Bates was always a more psychological character than Jason. Still, I can see this pitch working.

This utterly unrelated to the larger discussion here, but your comment made me remember an online discussion about Wonder Woman I had with a superfan of hers before the movies. When I argued that one of the challenges of the character is that there are no real weaknesses to sell her to larger audiences, something I…