Fuck off. Would you say the same of Italian-Americans or Irish Americans? I guess it doesn’t matter, because either way you’re an idiot.

Ah yes Asia, that small continent with zero ethnic diversity at all. 

“I wish they would embrace the readership more”

I can understand the lament. Tell me, though: Can you recall or point me to evidence that these purged employees were as competent as you claim from the moment they first wrote for the site? Or to be more blunt, why are you (the “we”) giving the new writers shit? What actual basis is there for coming down on them?…

I gave feedback for a long time. Now I come by and lament how far things went in the opposite direction.

yeah i tapped out (and am ever so slightly tapping back in to respond to this) after the saul finale because i didn’t see the point anymore. it’s the same 10 people complaining about the same 10 things.

“thereby verifying what I said”

This is such a pathetic self-own that you think is dunking on Jam_Boy_3.

Hey, anytime you want to back anything up with receipts, knock yourself out.

“At this point I only visit the site to see what new level of embarrassment they’ve reached.”

“No, but defending one of the most cynical takeovers in modern entertainment”

I dunno about the articles so much, but this overall comment thread (not so much your OP, FWIW, which I took as a bit of harmless snark personally) is a bit of an example of something about the comments and community I’ve noticed for a while now; overall we all seem to be a lot more hostile, belligerent, and at times…

That’s different from the original argument, though, and still debatable. Do you actually have a problem with this particular review? Did the AVClub not breathlessly cover the backstage gossip of potential crap, or receive limp accusations of selling out, even in the Sean O’Neal/Nathan Rabin days?

I’m not saying the…

Yeah, not being swayed by your hyperbole makes me the gullible one. 

Good on you Lucy.  Great point, well made.

“At this point I only visit the site to see what new level of embarrassment they’ve reached.”

Eh, you’re not off base. I’ve been ragging on the site a lot lately, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that I should just knock it off and move on.

Well I totally own up to having conflated your comment with those made by others who took it as an opportunity to pile on. I admit I’ve been getting frustrated with commenters’ relentless crapping on the new staffs’ work. Maybe some balance in content has shifted but it doesnt seem night and day to me. At any rate,…

I liked the old guard a lot - and the old old guard for that matter - and like many, I feel a sense of loyalty to them, but I take issue with commenters being assholes to the new employees because they have beef with the management. I think people are letting their anger towards how things went down cloud their…

“I don’t understand something, so it must be a conspiracy.”