For HBO, success is measured, in the short run, by subscriptions. It doesn't really matter how many people who already subscribe to HBO watch it. That's money they already had banked. It only matters how many new people subscribed to HBO to watch it.

No, but only because I hate defecation-on-car based humor. Also I can't stand underexposed shots and squinting.

Studio Exec: Terrence, look we love the film we just think it needs more ponderous insert shots of animals.

And most who do had to pay their dues for years on tv, music video and commercials.

He has great eyes, I'll give him that.

Hollywood: Home of the weponized hug.

Yeah, the point of every season of Project Greenlight has been, "Directors are the worst. We should let producers and studio execs make all the decisions because they know what's best."

The script they started with was bad — so bad the actual author of it has never been known — and Jason talked them into throwing it out for his own script.

I know. But it was the most concise way I could think of at the moment to say what I wanted to say.

And, for me, the mental image was compounded with extra weirdness because — though I know her gender — I can't help but picture Wafflicious as Hank Venture. Same as I can't help but picture you as a sentient question-mark key.

I agree to nothing.

No, what you just laid out is deductive reasoning. Even if it takes a few steps, deductive reasoning is explicit. Inductive reasoning would be implicit.

No, because you asked how I knew it and I said "The utter transparency of people like you" which explicitly categorizes you as one whom I believe is ascared of women. See, not implied. Abbreviating "ad hominem" as "ad-hom" is totally adorbs, btw.

No, I didn't imply it. I straight up said it.

Not so much spins as gently rocks from side to side.

Shhhhhhh. We're trying to keep that secret from them.

After I wrote that, it occurred to me that irony doesn't always play in comment form. So I hope you know it was irony.

Keep HAHAing. Tears of a clown, buddy.

Total double standard. If I offered to do that to you, I'd get banned from the forum.

The utter transparency of people like you.