After finally watching Quiet On Set (had put it off for a while due to having to mentally prepare to be icked out), I totally agree with a lot of her points. It touches on some heavy topics but a lot of those heavy topics and stories are buried in cheap schlock which is trying to get you in the headspace of “wow so…

You’d think a sizable amount of people would have at least seen Little Miss Sunshine.

Most disappointing ending to an exciting build-up. You had two characters with ALL the super powers. You have to let them do more than just punch stuff. Same issue with Harry Potter wizard fights that just involve pointing their wand lazers at each other and seeing which is stronger. You’re wizards for pete’s sake.…

The idea that anyone would take her case at all is mystifying.

Over at RationalWiki they refer to this “Just Asking Questions” bullshit as “JAQing off.”

Maybe Gina Carano is a dumbass white supremacist who should be ostracized by polite society?

saying she was merely “asking questions”

The idea that anyone would take her case at all is mystifying. Everything I’ve read about the Mandalorian production said she wouldn’t stop spouting her shitty takes even on the job, and everyone was sick of her hateful nonsense. Carano willing turned herself into a poison pill and now cries that no one wants her…

What I would like to see instead of another shitty subscription service with questionable perks would be some sort of in-house GoFundMe where we could pay to bring back writers like Nathan Rabin.

And please, call me Ookla. Mr. The Mok is my father’s name. 

Nevermind.

I was here for the Kinjapocalypse and I will be here for the Pasturrection. 

No motivation?? An old man, whose wife dies, has nothing left to live for, gets an opportunity to become young again and go on space adventures to kill aliens??? How’s that for an elevator pitch?

Your mention of talking-bulldog cops reminded me of Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, With Occasional Music (his first novel), which features, among other things, a gangster kangaroo.

Does The Illuminatus! Trilogy count as sci-fi or just insanity?

I don’t get the issue on Old Man’s War. That is the exact opposite of unfilmable. Same with its sequels.

The challenge for the Left Hand of Darkness is that Genly is a misogynist. He is the sole representative of the gender-normative worldview through which the reader is challenged. Watching the protagonist struggle with distaste while saying that some of his genderless hosts are acting “womanly” is entirely the point.

Nearly anything speculative by China Mieville, but in terms of ‘filmability’, The City & The City is probably the easiest.

I won’t deny that Pfeiffer’s performance is superior, but my Catwoman has always been and will always be Julie Newmar.

Now that you mention it, Tom Verlaine was kind of an asshole.

“Now children, who can tell me what the internet was and how it almost destroyed humanity in 1997?”