Ah, the “I am really above it all” approach. Interesting to see it deployed so early in the thread.

She is a ton of things, but this is definitely not one of them.

The name juxtaposed with the picture is like the perfect representation of the tonal inconsistency between The Hobbit and LOTR. 

Oft Forgotten

It’s mostly Dubrovnik.

Literally, none of them look anything like Minas Tirith. Where do you see seven levels with a massive bow of a ship sticking out of it?

This, but unironically. 

“We have massive evidence that today’s voters are very open to left wing socialist policies like universal healthcare, raising minimum wage, universal income, shutting down military spending and affordable or free education.”

Counter-revolutionary! You will be re-educated when we usher in the worker’s paradise. Bernie marched with MLK!!!!

Let me guess, anyone to the right of Trotsky isn’t left enough for you are they, comrade gatekeeper?

Sadly, this is low-rent Leninism that a lot of progressives buy into.

Lindsay Ellis has a ton of really great video essays. Her three-parter on why The Hobbit movies blew so hard is a low-key masterpiece. I think she does videos for PBS now.

Exactly. They conveniently leave out that they want modern American gender politics retrofitted onto a Chinese story. Isn’t this what the kids today would call “problematic” and be decidedly un-woke? 

This whole race to see who can be the “wokest of them all” seems to just have turned into a race to see who can be most literal-minded.

I understand why people are getting tired of “social” critiques of popular culture and art. It’s all the same recycled takes and magic phrases everyone learned on tumblr, second hand,…

“I’ve always thought the whole *point* of “A Girl Worth Fighting For” was to mock the soldiers.”

I literally saw this movie when I was 10 years old (when it came out) and I thought this was obvious.

“I’ve always thought the whole *point* of “A Girl Worth Fighting For” was to mock the soldiers.”

I literally saw this movie when I was 10 years old (when it came out) and I thought this was obvious.

I think it went a bit further than “unfortunate optics”. The Kylie Jenner Pepsi video was “unfortunate optics”. Fonda went to pall around with the Viet Cong, who had no compunction about raping, torturing, and murdering their countrymen and of course POWs. There is a reason for all those stark images of South…

Totally agree. This isn’t the character-breaking mess people are making it out to be. Spock would have been well aware of Michael’s circumstances and understood that she would then have necessarily not been the best example of human norms.

Also, since when has any iteration of Trek been completely consistent with TOS?

P…

She’s a Trump stan, though.

Nah. Salem is still a cat in the comics they’re basing this off of. He is more of Sabrina’s conscience and voice of reason. He was turned into a cat for getting a witch pregnant then made a deal with Satan that he would become human again if he protects Sabrina.