No, I got the point. It just wasn’t a very good analogy. There’s a lot of instances where theory didn’t keep up with technology, but metal boats ain’t one of them.

I can’t be entirely sure, but I’d wager that the first people who (successfully) built a floating boat made of metal did in fact know about buoyancy.

a metaphysical show following a lowly UN bureaucrat who discovers that his department has a secret portal to an alternate dimension.

but the facts presented to us were that he’s straight

I never thought of Twin Peaks as being very effects-heavy

It's been on a few posters around Stockholm, and the trailer played at least before Birdman. I'm trying to remember if the posters are really prevalent or if I'm just imagining it cause I go by a cinema every day to work >_>

I don't know, I've always seen Gaston's behavior re: Belle to be far beyond creepy and well into "cult-backed rapist" territory already. Just something about a giant, violent narcissist trying to force a nonconformist into getting with him through blackmail and murder.

You know who'd make a great Gaston? Dwayne Johnson

Actual consumer-grade VR had a brief surge in the 90s with Nintendo and Sega's console addons, but other than those it really hasn't been "almost there" for 20 years now. Oculus reignited the idea of consumer VR two years ago because the smartphone market explosion over the past 8 years has driven the miniaturization…

I think he's wearing a leather coat, over a blue leopard print jacket, over a fisherman's turtleneck sweater. With fingerless gloves. And a metal belt.

With prerequisites like that, I'm curious if you've been happy with any Marvel adaptation? I mean, the movies are canonically an alternate universe from the main 616 comic universe, and it's not like Marvel AU characters are particularly consistent.

Everyone went Ew when they found out about the car wash, but they didn't go Ew just from hearing she was cast

I guess after the Matrix movies grossed billions they never really had a problem finding people who'd bet on them getting another hit out. It's also worth noting that the only real (financial) flop they've made post-Matrix was Speed Racer, other than that they still reliably bring in the money.

I agree with you, but only for the second and third movie :P. The first had great pacing, andI'm not sure it would have been improved by Neo and Trinity having more to say about the plot. I would, however, have very much appreciated some more interesting character development than cave raves and uncomfortable sex…

I am a regular reader of io9, for about six years now, and I do follow the sci-fi industry, and I don't understand what the real debate is that Hoffman is distracting from. I think she's making a good point about all these sidelined women whose badassness fizzles out after the first act.

True, it wouldn't really have changed anything plotwise. I love the Matrix movies (yes, all three of them), but I don't love them for their stellar writing. I love them because they're cool, and they look good, and the choreography is amazing, and the style is really interesting. Neo is basically just an…

Her other point — which I made very clear in the excerpt I quoted — is that 'agency' is somehow a component solely of plot.

Maybe writers should set out to write good stories and characters and not worry about whether they're male, female, black, asian, gay, or transgendered.

Character and plot are simply two sides of a story's coin — and to manufacture some distracting binary distinction between the two seems to confuse the issue of strong characters more that it clarifies.

Man, how awesome wouldn't it have been if Trinity was the Chosen One and Neo was the one destined to wake her with a kiss instead?