I mean... we all saw what it did to Obi-Wan.

I’ve seen Google employees named as co-authors on papers that are arguably more controversial than this, too. It seems odd that they would ask their employee’s names be removed, unless those individuals themselves had some issue with the product.

I’m aware of all that. My point was only that it seemed not entirely fair for the judges to keep her around and then repeatedly make backhanded comments about her being messy/slow/out of her depth. Either they believe she was worthy of the final or they don’t. Some of the commentary was a bit out of character for GBBO.

I’m guessing it will be Ahsoka. This will be the sort of scenario where Grogu has to choose his own path and be willing to relinquish his tie to Mando in his own time. Filoni is probably setting up a parallel track where Ezra and Ahsoka will become the patrons of a new order of force users who are less dogmatic than…

Yes. He had to admit it was just wishful thinking after media picked up his tweet and reported it as fact. Not that he’d make a bad Ezra, but after seeing Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka I’m thinking maybe we should not just hand these roles out to people based on very vocal campaigning. She could have been very good as a…

It seemed appropriate to have some more manageable challenges in the final this year (i.e. no one squatting over a fire pit to cook anything). I was torn between disliking the passive-aggressive comments about Laura’s messiness and not being in the same league as the boys (there were a couple such comments made) and…

“a missed opportunity to educate anyone under 50 who wasn’t a UK resident and would thus have no idea what they just watched.”

Instagram or no, I will not tolerate the lack of Pine in this post.

Shout out to all the other Gen Xers feeling ancient after reading this article’s anthropological tone about weird stuff 70s and 80s kids liked. LOL. Reminds me of the time we had to explain to a certain other ex-Jezebel writer that “Baby Got Back” was a popular 80s song people enjoy quoting.

It’s frustrating that so much of the action happens off-screen this season. I’m kind of baffled as to why the showrunners thought it was a good idea to spend an hour each with Fagan and some obscure royal cousins (to be fair, I liked the latter story but didn’t feel it merited being the centerpiece of the episode)…

I had somewhat the same issue with this that I did with the Fagan episode. In an episode that was—at least in part—about South African apartheid and sanctions, it’s weird that there wasn’t a real South African perspective (or, as Caroline points out, much of any African perspective at all). Instead, it ends up…

IMO a B+ is way generous for this episode. The show’s choice to glorify Fagan as the voice of the working class becomes much more problematic in light of the actual details of the situation. Per the NY Times story on the history behind this episode, Fagan “sat on the bed six feet from the Queen, told her he loved her…

Even beyond that, a lot of very smart people who research women in politics have been trying to move the conversation in recent years beyond simple descriptive takes (How many women are in parliaments? Has there ever been a female executive?) into deeper and more substantive questions. One of the factors that emerges…

I looked up the pond puddings and a shudder ran through me when I saw that Heston Blumenthal had recently put them on his menu. I’d hate to see GBBO go full-on Masterchef Australia and start pushing home chefs to chase down every nonsense food trend. Can “Molecular Gastronomy Week” be far behind?

What if I told you that not everything needs to be bashed over our heads? That perhaps we didn't need lingering scenes of a stag at all to understand the metaphor of this episode?

Such beautiful cinematography in the landscape shots in this episode. It would have been an A for me if not for the awful CGI. The scenes with Diana and Phillip were really wonderful. 

Thank you. I was an older teen when I saw this, but I understood that not all of it was “for” me. IMO, the review here is projecting a little bit of 2020 technology consumerism onto a 1999 film. Portions of it certainly look dated now, and the failure of live-action actors to really interact with CGI characters seems…

Hey, neighbor. :D Yeah, I eye-rolled the New York reference, which seems like the same lazy shorthand as conveying class via confusion about forks on the table. 

The whole thing was kind of filler-y. I didn’t like the child eating the eggs, which probably could have been handled in a more subtle way (i.e., leaving more ambiguity about whether he actually ate any) but it felt like they wanted to give us those meme-able shots of him scarfing them down. I kind of felt bad for the…

The NY Times exit poll linked here does appear to have tried to include by mail voters. I mean, look, the exit polls should always be taken with a grain of salt b/c they don't represent what you actually felt or voted, but what you're willing to admit to another person. The actual story here, beyond just looking at…