They also did a really good job of making fun of the bad sitcoms in a way that was tone-perfectly referential... There was a moment in Episode 3 where I turned to my wife and joked that it was almost time for her to start walking around holding a coat indoors. My wife retorted “or carrying a pillow everywhere.” And…

“But let’s not imagine stories about mutants, robots and superheroes are capable of representing all or even most facets of human existence.”

This displays a fundamental lack of understanding about how storytelling can reflect reality through analogy. If you’re only consuming this stuff in a wholly superficial way,…

It’s possible that the strong reactions to what you’re typing are really strong reactions to the utter absence of evidence supporting an assumption like “The next ones will probably be good too, but their appeal (the plot/genre summaries that determine if a casual viewer will check it out) will be more specific to the…

This person typed the words “Moebius and Jodorowski’s Incal” while predicting that the MCU was going off the rails based on the titles of movies that aren’t in production yet. And calling Marvel fans touchy. And pretending to not be invested...

Main appeal according to whom?

On the one hand, we have your feelings... based on your personal preferences... and your assumptions about how the future moviegoing public will feel about movies that haven’t been made or marketed yet...

And on the other hand, we have the actual box office performances of these movies:

This is really funny reading after Episode 4. I’m not sure which is more entertaining, the utter lack of coherence behind the original piece or how badly the comments agreeing with it have aged. Just a reminder, folks:  Mayonnaise is good for adding a tangy zip to sandwiches and other dishes, but you should not leave…

Maybe she was lying about being a Christian...

Those Maaaaam jeans, tho...

Dude got carte blanche for eight years. They built the team around him for eight years. Imagine the COO of a Fortune 500 company pulling a no call/no show on a Board of Directors meeting only to be discovered by the Admin Assistant, drunk, at a bar three blocks away... That’s who you feel bad for.

John Wall is the…

How’s that work? If they hold a horse race, someone will have trained the horse that won, whether he’s there or not. People will have bet for/against the horse that won, whether he’s there or not. Unless his fellow racists are going to start boycotting horse races, I don’t see how excluding one trainer from…

She looks white enough in her mugshot, but all I really care about is how she looks in orange...

I don’t understand your use of the word “establishment” in this context. What she’s doing right now is grassroots organizing. She has become a household name because her work is effective. She gets results. You said she’s “now firmly establishment,” but she hasn’t held elected office since 2017. Was she…

Things you’ve made no meaningful attempt to change?

This is a fantastic piece, but it sorta glides by the single most annoying thing he did with some “reasonable people disagree” ish...

He was injured when the NBA went into the bubble, so he wasn’t going to play when they decided to restart... and he wasn’t going to miss out on any games if they didn’t. So he wasn’t…

Interesting theory... Unfortunately, it doesn’t account for all of the dodgy men who got passes before “vocally anti-Trump” was an option in the dropdown menu.

Counterpoint: If he dies, he dies.

Awesome! Could we get one for Stannis Baratheon fanwives next?

I had a strong feeling the payoff for this was going to make me smile!

The truly legitimate don’t have to renew any push for legitimacy...