Censorship would be a law that actively removes the book from circulation. No one is required to film it, or even print it, and criticizing those who do print or film it does not equate to censorship.

EDIT: Original reply thought you were replying to another comment. Anyway... this comment actually kind of irks me, because you’re kind of the one strawmanning the original disagreement, which was phrased quite reasonably, into the normal troll freaking out. You’ve accused the author of creating a strawman, while…

Something being based on something bad doesn’t make that thing bad. H.P. Lovecraft is, of course, horrible, but that doesn’t make the entire Lovecraftian genre of fiction bad. (Fallen London for example is one of the few games I know of that easily accepts PCs who don’t fall cleanly into the gender binary.) The film…

Which is assuming they haven’t fixed the underlying racism and imperialism that goes with it. For all we know its about as imperialist as Zootopia. (I have not seen that film, so I am kind of assuming it’s not imperialist... which is normally a safe assumption for modern films, but not always...)

For example... if you…

She said it needs to have lots of historical context or be outright critical of the original. Not put in context, but the film itself needs to have context so you’re sure you know how bad imperialism is. That’s not a bad practice, but I don’t think it’s actually needed that every adaptation of a problematic work be…

Lots of people look to Birth of a Nation as a great example of film making too. It doesn’t mean they actually like what the film is about though.

While I don’t agree with holding the past completely unaccountable, it’s a bit of a false dichotomy to say no one was FORCED to be a racist, ergo they decided to be racist. These were people who, like everyone else, were taught a certain morality and many, though not all of them, and probably not Kipling (I don’t know…

Men of action indeed... it’s just that those actions were largely terrible ones. Building ships is fine. Commerce is fine. Empires are often bad things for the people in the lands the Empire wants to claim, and the asses they kicked were by and large asses of people who didn’t really deserve it.

In the 21st Century we…

Well what she says is “And the argument about when the book was written and by whom doesn’t excuse either Disney or Warner Bros. from making adaptations of it in the 21st century. Unless these movies are loaded with historical context, or are subversive critiques of Kipling, they’re still adapting, for entertainment,…

The problem (as a young person) is not so much that other people are using their phones. I don’t, as a general rule, give a damn what other people do or how they enjoy the events they go to. The problem is, they’re shining a bright screen into the faces of the people sitting behind them. It’s quite rude to the other…

The problem is, it’s really hard to know. I don’t think anyone’s collected data on it. There’s always assholes, and if they’re cell phone assholes, they’re probably gonna be younger. It may be that Brooke774 has the sampling error... or it could be you with the sampling error. It’s a large demographic so the phone…

Speaking as the younger audience they wanna reach... aw hell no. I will turn off my phone and watch the damn movie. I’m honestly a little insulted that this bullshit idea that 20somethings can’t live without their phones is so entrenched it’s being treated as a neutral fact. Plenty of them don’t want to, everyone…

Oh we all knew that was gonna happen. It looks like they’re gonna buy most of that old stuff back too. They just dumped the EU because it extends so far past the end of the films you really can’t make an original sequel without just ditching it. They’ve referenced Malachor V twice now, I think, in expanded material,…

For some reason... namely I forgot to check if someone was going to save me some time in the comments, I did watch the video. The complaint was that the promotional imaged released only had one new female actor. So presumably Maz was not in that image.

I actually never liked TR-8R as a name. I like the idea of it, but... every time I hear it my first thought goes to droids. I’d go with... TR41702 which... I realize is pretty bad leet, one digit too long for the Force Awakens, and isn’t nearly as funny, but... eh.

I get why other people like it, it just never worked…

It could be that it’s less altruism and more... not wanting to get yelled at even more.

He might be a fantastic guy though! I mean, I only know him as an actor which he... didn’t seem to be great at (one role though, maybe he’d be good in some other, better written part that plays to his strong points, whatever those…

I’m going to have to disagree on several points. Not you liking the prequels. You like ‘em? Awesome. That’s less bad movie out there for you. Would the fans have ripped Episode VII apart if Lucas did it? I don’t think so.

What made A New Hope special wasn’t just establishing the look of big budget sci-fi, it also…

Yeah, and I’m saying: Can’t we just ditch the idea that the Sith ever had a stupid rule? The only reason it’s in the EU at all is because of that Yoda quote. As that Yoda quote can be interpreted as multiples of two, rather than literally two, we could ditch it entirely.

(Except, by the look of it, most of the…

We’ve seen some mismatching cases of height too though. For example, the first time we see Palpatine give Order 66, his hologram of the Clone Commander is much larger than the clone’s palm sized hologram. (Conveniently, the clone is holding his palm in such a way that it looks more or less like he’s looking Palpatine…

Failing that, they already DID kill him and it didn’t work. Which made the whole “Oliver is the only one who can take down Merlyn” thing weird. He already demonstrated he’s pretty bad at it.