“it’s ok to be a nerd/gay/a different gender/an ethnic minority/a non-Christian religion/etc. ... being a bit “normal” just makes things easier.”

Lots or non-nerdy people were into Star Wars. But the nerds were the ones really into Star Wars. A hallmark of nerd culture is diving in obsessively to a particular fandom. “Normal” people watched the movies and maybe had the action figures when they were a kid, but they didn’t read the EU books or buy every single…

The good thing about the culture shift since this show is that nowadays, Zach and Slater would likely be the villains in a series. And despite his status as the “geek” in the bunch, Screech was actually kind of an asshole (in the series - IRL, another dimension of asshole entirely). 

I’m amazed at how many 80s and 90s kids have just now discovered that the stuff they watched religiously as kids was, for the most part, absolute and total garbage.

‘It is the laziest shit ever made.’

It’s magic!

Well, we were just discussing this movie in another thread a week or so ago.

Well excuse me if I don’t want to be a puppet of Big Feelings!

I didn’t find that it needed to be in chronological order to be uninteresting. 

I have friend who categorically refuses to watch rom-coms because they have all those annoying ‘feelings’ that the film maker is trying to push on you.

I swear, if you put together Aunt Lydia lines from different episodes, it plays like Gollum fighting with himself.

Well, of course by then the show will have become just a talent team competition where Handmaids, Aunts, Marthas, Wives and Commanders take turn in performing covers of classic pop songs from the Eighties.

Are there security cameras in the Bible? I don’t think so!

That was a commoner, though, the woman was an Econowife. This show went off-book so soon, yet it never explored what little of the world the book described. They only went outside of the Commander elite in one episode. They never explained the men’s castes (Commander, Eye, Angel, Guardian). And they always showed us Wi…

There was an article/interview with the costume designer where she explains this – IIRC there’s a subtle color hierarchy to the wives, where blue is actually most “powerful” and green is less so. I’m not sure how strictly they follow that, though, especially now that the original costume designer has moved on. In this…

I hear Gilead has a pretty nice fireworks factory

I thought this episode was illustrative of just what a hot mess this show has become. We know June has been in solitary confinement, aka hospital duty, for over 31 days. Would they ever let a Handmaid miss her monthly ceremony? So June opening with the 31 day thing immediately made me sigh and think “They’re breaking…

Serena cannot have children. In the book, she’s barren for unknown reasons. In the show, it’s implied she’s barren after being shot.

Moss’s, not Moss’.  Omg, pet peeve.

I completely forgot about Eden, that’s how much I cared about her.