You're doing God's work, dude.

Lulz.

Wait is that a real line in something? That's hilarious.

This edit of the film is. The actual movie is a little grating, but the Julia Child parts are aces. The relationship that Streep and Tucci creates feels so real, and while the stakes aren't super high, it's an extremely pleasant film. Streep is amazing—a really physical presence

I have.

Yeah, he looked like a straight up combo of Wan and Jet. Intentional?

Agreed. Morally grey is not an anti-hero.

He's the negative image of Steve. Literally, in every way. Steve signs up for the Army—Bucky's enlistment number implies he's drafted. Steve agrees to become a supersoldier; Bucky has it forcefully done to him, without his consent. Both of them are frozen for the better part of seventy years, becoming symbols beyond…

There's plenty of stuff to thoughtfully engage with if you take the time to thing about it. Especially the fact that Korra's reluctance to deal with her trauma mirrors the United Republic's reluctance to deal with the fascist state growing in the Earth Kingdom—it's almost like they made two plotlines that explicitly…

Maybe how difficult it is to recover from trauma? I mean, I've been thinking about that all day.

Yeah, definitely felt like a flashback to The Last Airbender in the best way. Slow moving, beautiful, character-driven, light-handed. The family dynamics were A+, the montage of Korra's traumas was deeply upsetting, and her moment of connection moved me to tears (also, probably because of the music—that score just…

Nope nope nope—don't wash vaginas and vulvas with soap. Only use hot water. Ever.

Hence "1930's Hitler-analogue" rather than "simply Hitler." And come on—you can compare a political figure whose rise in political power essentially mirrors 20th century fascism to Hitler. This idea that a character has to "earn the right to be likened to Hitler" is a weird idealization of a human being—he rose to…

Yeah, definitely seems so. I love the way the narratives of changing dynamics in leadership really ring true for history—you can have a whole dynasty of corrupt monarchs, followed by an overthrown monarchy that is itself corrupt and supported by the people, without anyone really being the "good guy."

Kuvira is essentially a 1930's Hitler-analogue. Seriously. This whole episode was an exercise in appeasement—what else can we do? We don't want to start another world war, with the memory of the Fire Nation Empire still fresh in our history. And Kuvira has the support of the Earth Kingdom's people—do the other nations…

So…is the big internal struggle for this season just the Wizard of Earthsea? If so, I am 100% down and excited.

well, turk scrubsier tens to go for the low-hanging "i disagree with this female author who points out sexism so I'll say that's all she cares about" fruit, so his work strikes me as a little more vapid than it needs to be

I mean, that's also a conservative wet dream, in terms of the modern conservative movement. In fact, the vast, vast majority of Americans are against overthrowing our government. It's like the one common ground we have. So, what the hell man.