Famerate-at-all-costs is such gamer brainrot disease.

I bailed on this show mid-way through season 2 on the grounds that the characters the two main male leads were inhabiting were so much more interesting than the plots they were being shoved in, while poor Ciri had nothing to do but wander vaguely from place to place (with a sidekick boy never given so much as a single…

Season 2 of Beastars was so strong and then it just nosedived into shit come the finale, throwing out every point it had made early in the season with an idiotic ‘well its okay if Lagoshi does it” to help him win a dumb fight with a glorified background extra.

An actually unique Superman story would just be two hours of him helping out ordinary citizens of metropolis with their day-to-day, non-world-threatening crises.

Spider-verse bluntly demonstrates that you don’t need to show the origin story because everyone seeing the movie knows it. You can reference it throughout your whole film and simply save 20 minutes of time because the audience knows what Krypton blowing-up looks like they’ve been watching it on movie screens since Flei…

So by “things the showrunners changed” I assume you mean the entire premise of the book series? It’s core, foundational (sorry) purpose and argument?

Whether you find the show entertaining or not (it’s got its moments), its not that the show changes cahracters or plots or storylines—it’s that it doesn’t accept the premi…

Foundation wants to be Dune so bad it’s in physical pain, which makes its ability to work as an adaptation non-existence because Foundation is Dune’s diametric opposite in terms of tone, style, and underlying themes, even if they are both about large, unwieldy galactic empires falling apart at the seams.

Foundation is…

As always: only if you’re a American.

Which don’t pay nearly as well as people assume.

“How does Che get to be bicostal with a good sized NYC apartment on a mid-level comedy career and a TV pilot.”

Same real estate company as the Friends gang and the kooky misogynists from Big Bang Theory. They deal in rents so frozen Disney’s once sued for IP infringement.

“a word that will never not seem like a typo to me”

On this website, who can tell anymore?

All life in Titan died. In Titan.

Part of the reason the Big Two comics have gone into such a decline, I feel, is that ‘changing without ever really changing’ storytelling has gone completely out of fashion. When plot points happen I wat them to matter. When DC erased all of No Man’s Land[1] from continuity, the thing that got me to care about Batman…

The studio goes “after story until it is clear, thrilling and emotional,”

Since when?

Every writer here is just riding out their contract as best they can. None of this is their fault and there’s nothing they can do to fix it.

Rise of Skywalker is worse than all three prequels combined. Whatever their faults - and they are legion - they have clear beginnings, middles, and ends, clear themes, and a clear story. Nobody’s complaint about the Prequels were that they were confusing: just boring.

At this point we should say accept the fact tah when Luke Skywalker said “no one’s ever really gone” he was speaking literally. No one has ever actually died on Star Wars. Ever. They’re just not on camera most of the time but yeah, no one has ever died. They’re all still there.

Forever.

Oh my GOD I get so much HATE for pointing out how SNW, at its worst, is full of immature childish characters who don’t act like growns ups because SNW is supposed to be “The Good One” but is really jsut doing the same shit Discovery did with a cast people like more. (The grown-up, adult, good show was somehow…

“It also made me think about a similar scene in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and how it made me like that movie even less.”

That’s literally every scene in Rise, though. Without exaggeration it is one of the worst-constructed big-budget movies in history. Every scene feels careless.

Oh friend, I am so sorry. Genuinely: is there I can do for you?