I am so much more excited for this than Venom.

I love the different animation styles used for the different spider-persons. They are Roger-Rabbitting within an animated movie.

I haven’t really been keeping tabs on this movie, but it actually looks really good! I legit chuckled a couple times.

Yeah, I think back to how hooked I was by Futurama’s first episode. The scene meeting Bender at the Suicide Booth was so fucking hilarious. And I loved the tone it set. By contrast after 4 or 5 episodes so far I’m waiting for Disenchantment to hook me.

I guess, but I think just hearing “the vampire slayer” implies well enough to most people that it’s connected to Buffy. Enough to pique interest, but less backlash and immediate comparisons. 

Why reboot this as “Buffy” at all?

Why do they keep rebooting rather than do a sequel to a show?

This is one of those crazy situations where I don’t know what to think. On the one hand, when Buffy was good it was amazing. On the other, Joss’ star has rather fallen in recent years. On the third hand, Monica Owusu-Breen was a writer and producer on Agents of Shield, where she would have interacted with Joss at…

Why does it have to be Buffy though? Why isn’t it just a new slayer? A spin-off could be great, but a remake? Meh.

Sorry to hear that, fam, hopefully you meet someone better!

Living in New York has really left me with a skewed sense of what dating is supposed to be like. I look at my friends from back home (suburban Washington State), and many of them are married or having kids now. And yet, nobody I know here in the equivalent age group is doing that unless they moved here already in a…

Yeah, I’m about to end a relationship with my current girlfriend, as she told me that there’s essentially no future there. The physical aspects are great, but...nah. I’m not a fan of living with my emotional switch hovering between “ON” and “OFF.”

Yeah it really feels like there’s a huge reduction all around. Like, nobody is actually growing up or thinking about anything long-term anymore, and it’s like, damnit, did I work hard and get myself into a good place for nothing?

I think the cult of physical fitness has something to do with it.

At this point, it’s basically use apps to hook up, or nothing.

I’m also convinced that the rush to have sex early in a dating relationship has raised the stakes for everybody.

To me, this story, and the way it lays out the female experience of being considered undateable in our culture, points up something invaluable: That the feelings of rejection, anger, despair, even rage, are really similar between men and women. What’s different, of course, is how the protagonists choose to deal with…

Came down here to say this. It’s a generalization but it’s got a lot of truth to it.

Yes; the difference between “there must be something wrong with me” and “there must be something wrong with them.”

A too-wide generalization but one that may hold some truth here: Women tend to internalize pain; men externalize it. Both are dangerous for the person in pain, but only one of them is dangerous to the rest of the world.