There are a lot of things I dislike about this piece and about the current state of the site, and it’s obviously a fine line before you get to Zombie Deadspin.

The casting call should be open to all races, genders, and body types.

Proto Man disapproves of AV Club’s articles

“If you hate massive collateral damage and no one caring about it, where are the complaints about The Avengers?”

What if they’re not pretending? What if a racially diverse cast of actors in a grim and gritty superhero universe with complicated ethics is something people want to see?

#RetireTheSnyderverse

 He looks good but the poor sucker would still be saddled with a Snyder script, so good night and good luck. 

When will people stop pretending the “Snyderverse” isn’t shitty? Snyder’s virtues as an artist apart, his vision for the JL and its individual characters has been always wrong. He doesn’t understand, let alone love, the source material. It’s only still a thing because a small army of edgylords think their whims should…

Why should I when you’ll probably decide it’s a task only you can do?

As far as an Abrams working on Star Trek goes,  Stacey is a much better choice than J.J.

You don’t have to be the guy.  Plenty of idiots here who are happy to be unpaid proofreaders and editors for some reason.

Those snippets are entirely representative of the review and the reason it was taken down. I just explained why. To say a story isn’t relatable enough because it’s about a girl and a girl who is Asian is ridiculous. Especially when some kids movies about mermaids with dead mothers pursuing a person they just met and…

I think one white guy saying “I do not relate to this movie not about white guys” is not a good take. Then you either realize that 1. You are the wrong person to review this movie or 2. You are incapable of opening yourself up to the experiences of others who are different than you and please refer back to #1.

Counterpoint: Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980. Audiences were still pretty used to downbeat and bummer endings, the previous decade having seen a sort of all time high for such things. Consider the endings to the films in what was the closest thing to a sci fi blockbuster franchise before Star Wars, the Planet…

I mean—possibly? That’s probably already been done in some comic or other. These characters are reinvented with great regularity, sometimes including core personality traits and cornerstones of their backstory. They get different parents, different origin stories, different goals and motives, different names.…

dude what.

I’m very much the odd one out here in that I actually liked the ending...but in retrospect, I think I was looking for different things from it than others were (I wanted something bittersweet...and it worked really well for me).

Yuuuup, this was the moment when game fandom went batshit insane with entitlement and never looked back. Fans don’t know what the fuck they want, and studios shouldn’t bend over backward for them every time they throw a fucking hissy-fit. Only gamers are shitty enough to make me sympathize with an asshole like Phil…

The fandom hell we find ourselves in is begging for a deus ex machina to break its ever exhausting cycle. At the very least, we could’ve avoided this if more folks understood the purpose of fanfiction.

I LOVE The Last Jedi.