“[Rich person] would be better off not trying to take personal control of a process they know very little about just because they love using their money to buy power” is one of those truisms that rich people never listen to.

Frankly, I think scaring the piss out of multi-billionaires should be a fucking prerequisite for office.

There are some I can’t really get into, but “Starcrash”, “Avalanche”, and “Carnival Magic” are pretty regular in my rotation. I’m really hoping to hear a formal renewal for Season Thirteeen at the end of the marathon.

That animated Clone Wars movie? Totally agreed.

Of course, in the case of Lucas, they’re at least his ideas.

In all honesty, the brain trust of the MCU is currently concerned with making movies that come in on time, under budget, and that are good/profitable (and ideally in the overlap of the Venn diagram between those two). “Canon” is and has always been a fannish preoccupation, and that’s not to diminish it or denigrate it…

They are, but she’s also the only character who doesn’t live to the end of the story. Queerbaiting can also mean the promise that an LGBTQ+ character is going to be regularly featured when they in fact just get a guest appearance and die at the end of it.

Ewww! How could anyone defend that? It’s fucking creepy and inexcusable, and I know you already know that but I can’t help saying it because ewwwwwww!

Also, while I know replying to your own post is a trifle gauche, I just want to share with everyone just how heartwarming it is to see someone howling impotently at you from the greys, knowing that they have nothing to offer the world but mewling spite and that this brief acknowledgement of your amusement at their…

I love the way you connected this metaphor back to the show, where Chidi was literally pulled into the hole by his efforts to help the toxic person. :)

Mainly the fact that (spoilers, but come on, it’s been three decades) the only character who dies at the end is also the only trans character in the entire... um, DC/Vertigo Universe at the time? :) Admittedly, there’s some stuff in there that rings very authentic, like the way her shitty family had her buried wearing…

“Disney’s so commercial now, giving her a Simpsons catchphrase just because they bought Fox.”

The fact that TLJ made people like you hate it is just one of the many great things about that movie.

I always think of Steve Martin hosting the Oscars one of the years Polanski was nominated yet a-fucking-gain, and pointing out into the crowd. “So many famous faces tonight. There’s Roman Polanski... GET HIM!”

John Byrne’s run is pretty well remembered, so long as you can get past his really weird fetishization of the character’s body. Pretty much all of the hyper-sexualization you can remember is either him or someone directly inspired by him.

Did anyone else get really excited for the ‘Sandman’ TV series right up until you remembered how badly the gender politics of ‘A Game of You’ has aged and suddenly wound up praying it’d be canceled before that point so you didn’t have to see a really angry debate over queerbaiting with a man who was really progressive…

I’d say it went pear-shaped in the first place because they never did the thing that was essential for all the others—they never convinced them that they didn’t belong there. That was absolutely vital for Eleanor; she needed to know, deep down, that the only reason she made it into the Good Place was because she was…

Although Bob Murray did lose a dozen miners in an accident caused by loose and shoddy safety standards at his mine. It just, y’know, wasn’t that particular mine.

After a certain point, money is only useful for buying control over other people’s lives. When you have enough money, you start to become completely accustomed to the idea that other people say and do and even think what you tell them to, and anything that punctures that comfortable bubble of solipsistic power becomes…

I gotta admit, this is one of those shows whose fans are such terrible ambassadors that they’ve pretty much guaranteed I’ll never get into it.