By ‘experimental’ do you mean ‘superficially progressive stories whose actual plots were disturbingly right-wing?’ Or ‘Having the first female Doctor be a passive, non-confrontational, stand-around do-nothing?’ Or just ‘be kind of shit?’

The show that had a whole plot about how the people who protested Space amazon’s…

I had to stop watching a Youtube video the other day because it referred to Christopher Plummer as ‘this dude who was in Knives Out’ and treated Crispen Glover’s filmography as a novelty its audience would be unfamiliar with.

It is absolutely the hardware if you’re me and are running an intel-chip machine that was near-useless six months after I bought it and has only gotten worse over time.

The musical, after a rough start, ended up being a smash hit whose surprise viral TikTok popularity carried it over Covid and the shutdown, so people going ‘why in 2023' are really just not paying attention to the wider world: teens fucking love Beetlejuice. This is about as best a time for a Beetlejuice sequel as…

Absolutely fucking not, go to hell, Apple.

I can’t even run games well on your computer why do you think I’d trust you with your shitty, twee phones?

“The Jedi Face a Crisis”

No, they don’t. I mean they do, contemporaneously within the book I guess, but they don’t. It’s a prequel to a prequel. There are no meaningful twists or turns, everyone important will get out fine, at worst it’ll try to do some entirely unnecessary backstory set-up for pointless dumb shit…

Does it matter? The order didn’t any run better with them around.

“the ubiquitous American flags becoming a symbol of dogged support of carnage abroad as opposed to unity.”

I don’t know how to state this less blunty, but it was a synbol of carnage abroad before 9/11—to the point that you can directly link 9/11 to, y’know, decades of brutal American foreign policy abroad abetted by…

“Starfield has saminess problems because it uses procedural generation” is kind of a weird take, why are we not saying “Starfield’s procedural generation is not very good.”

I lost enough of my life to Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft and heck, sometimes even NMS to know that saminess in content is down to having poor…

I would have been 19 and I remember its reception perfectly, thank you very much, because it was a crap show that set the tone for the next decade that something was ‘prestige’ so long as there was enough on-camera sex and guts sloshing about.

There’s a directly line from the first season of True Blood being all ‘this…

THANK YOU it’s my key takeaway from this article no one is talking about what a weird lens on Asimov that is.

He’s... doing television?

“No one watching took it “seriously” like we were watching a prestige drama.”

That scene in the pilot where he give himself finger guns in the mirror while having sex with a girl is all Jason ever could or needed to be.

Shallow? Bazooka Joe comics have more depth.

Hear hear!

I talk about the X-men problem all the time. There’s literally a mutant rating scale of ‘who can cause the Apolalypse with their mind.’ There’s a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Mutants have, in fact, tried to genocide all non-mutants multiple times.

THIS IS A BAD ALLEGORY FOR THE IRRATIONALITY OF OPPRESSION.

I mentioned this above but my recently-out friend was so hurt and angry that I said the anti-vampire people were clearly in the right (as were the anti-zombie ‘bigots’ in the British gay zombie allegory In The Flesh).

They kill people, Brian! Constantly! In really sick and brutal ways! I don’t care that they’re gay…

I knew people who took this show very, very seriously indeed.

It was weird.

True Blood and the slightly-later In the Flesh were two shows that really, really, really mattered to my recently-out gay best friend and he got so hurt that I wouldn’t take them seriously—and he got really upset that I thought they were shit allegories for queer oppression.

They fucking kill people, Brian. Brutally.…