I don’t see a white dude doing the Wakanda Salute as offensive so much as...cringey, like when Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer wore Kente cloth to honor George Floyd.

ETA: Alright, alright, fuck, jeez, it was always dangerously scary. There just was a brief period wherein mocking the Trump administration still had some entertainment value.

Yeah, that’s the thing about most “beloved” sitcoms: they weren’t “beloved” so much as...on. My family watched Home Improvement every week. I don’t think a single one of us particularly loved it hated it; it was just preferable to whatever was on the other networks. Occasionally you'd luck out and what was on was…

IT RHYMES, DAMN IT.

Ah, the early days of the Trump presidency, when things were merely scary-funny and not scary-“oh jesus fuck christ what’s he doing now?”

I’d say that’s more a comment on the silliness of the battle lines being drawn in the culture wars. Made the personal decision not to eat meat? Cares about the environment? Obviously he’s some sort of socialist!

Which is to say it’s pretty damn right wing on most things that matter.

[Considers diving further into a TLJ flame war, tosses hands up, walks away]

Are we operating under different definitions of the word “mixed”? Sure, I’ll give credit to Kennedy for the good stuff, but there’s been a lot of bad stuff too—not to mention significant behind-the-scenes drama—and I think the failures of the mainline entries can be laid pretty directly at her feet. 

I love how nobody seemed to notice or care that lyrics of biggest pop hits of the 90s and 00s made no goddamn sense because they were literally all written by some random Swedish dude. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin)

I keep trying to find a politic way of expressing this, but there isn’t really, so...she just looks like a stupid person. She has this vacant, hamster-like quality that I always found extremely off-putting, especially when she was gamely attempting to vamp it up and act “sexy” in her videos.

Pretty great, for people who enjoyed the only good Star Wars sequel movie!

I’m honestly a little surprised Kennedy hasn’t been eased out of her position yet. I think everyone can agree that her “just let each individual director make it up on the fly” approach with the sequel trilogy was not successful, and her track record with the other Star Wars properties has been...mixed.

That’s what the Craig era was supposed to be: back to basics Bond. Honestly, I don’t think I’d mind if they went in the opposite direction and leaned into the campiness of it all. The world’s a flaming shitshow right now--give us pocket hang gliders, secret underwater bases, and plots to nuke Mount Everest. Drown us…

They did reboot Star Wars. It was called The Force Awakens and it was mediocre at best. The only original ideas in that movie were “what if R2D2 but round?” “what if Stormtrooper but chrome?” and “what if Death Star but more?”

Barry Keoghan looks like Ezra Miller if he got punched in the nose a few too many times and it distracts me.

I know you were going for wordplay here, but it’s kind of awkward when you wind up saying the opposite of what you mean.

Were people confused by Rocky II because they expected it to be the same movie as Rocky? The problem with the Wii U is that Nintendo didn’t name it Wii 2, or something similar.

I think it would be a much more productive to rank the Marvel movies in terms of cultural significance, from “incredibly” to “earth-shatteringly important.”

It’s Breaking Bad syndrome.