It seems to me that the people involved in the production of this show should stop taking questions and doing interviews, as it either makes them sound stupid or is deeply insulting to fans.

Errr... Have you been keeping up with Swedish politics? They’ve been electing some pretty fucking horrible people. One of their ascendant political parties can be reasonably described as neo-nazi.

I mean. We probably shouldn’t respect the source material. It and it’s author are pretty shit. 

Arguing over who has interpreted The Witcher correctly is the most Witcher conversation ever 

Exactly, part of the reality that I don’t think a lot of people understand is that transferring something from one medium to another is an adaptation and things are going to shift due to the different constraints/freedoms of those mediums. take any comic book movie fight scene. while a comic may have some action…

To be fair, the *public* often doesn't know what the public wants. Audiences are, were, and ever shall be fickle motherfuckers.

Careful Cap, I had a friend who acknowledged that males and females have some meaningful biological differences, and the next day they were out buying a boxed set of the Harry Potter movies and subscribing to Matt Walsh’s podcast.

It’s weird because the books are much more nuanced, mature and clever than the show gives it credit for, but still very schlocky, barely-better-than-mid fantasy despite its fans thinking it’s Great Literature.

Counterpoint: one of the biggest movies of the year is a biopic about a physicist and the morality and politics around his work. Art and profit are not an inverse relationship. Pandering to the lowest common denominator often drives off anyone with an intellect above that of a potato.

The first season was fun because each episode, for the most part, was self-contained. They didn’t have to figure out how to write political elements or serialized stories because that’s just what the show (and the early short stories the first season was based off of) was at the time. And it’s a lot easier for bad…

“Blaming ACL tears solely on our biological makeup, however, is inherently problematic.”

The writing was never great. The show was almost great in spite of the bad writing, and in spite of the very confusing (for those unfamiliar with the lore) first season time-jumps. That a show could be promising despite major flaws in plot direction and writing demonstrates that there was definitely some magic there,…

He didn’t jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

Knee injuries are more common in women for all sports, not just soccer. You listed all of the contributing factors in your article, but didn’t like the answers apparently.

Hate to burst your bubble but Van Gogh cut off his ear and sent it to the prostitute he was obsessed with. I know history treats this as part of his canon but I have a feeling that gal was not thrilled to be the object of his deranged affections.

I don’t think Tom really fell that hard, if at all. True, people were weirded out with his scientology cult thing, and his creepiness peaked during that now infamous Oprah interview in 2005, but he’s made a TON of well grossing movies since then, including $1.5B for his latest Top Gun movie. So he’s still drawing…

Michael Richards was pretty instantaneous, but I’m struggling to think of an overnight collapse to the degree of what we’re seeing now with Lizzo. Even Ellen had been critiqued for years about different problematic things before the ceiling collapsed.

Perhaps not as dramatic, but Jonah Hill? Supposedly there were rumors about him and of course Jay Baruchel’s prescience but I think for the most part he had a solid reputation.

I think the important thing is to not get sucked into the cult of personality.