Honestly, I have seen very little actual gender or race-related blowback leak into the public sphere. I am sure there are dedicated groups out there who have dedicated places to complain about stuff but it feels like you’d have to actively seek that out to find it.

While it may be atypical for a modern big budget studio release how is any of the behaviour described neurotic, clandestine or nervous? It sounds like a combination of prudence (Miller) and discipline (keeping the ending secret). 

It sounds like we mostly agree. So I’ll heartily yes your response and clarify a couple points:

You’re 100% correct that Jordan Peterson has a small following. I meant that most Americans “follow” someone I’d classify as a Speech Entrepreneur (which I define as a fake deep thinker who mostly just spout bullshit).

And…

I am curious how the author (or really anyone) came to the conclusion that there is something “going on with Zachary Levi” beyond exhibiting typical normal / centrist attitudes and behaviors.

From what I can tell the controversial bit is his alleged anti-Vax sentiment which seems like a pretty big conclusion to draw…

I’ll one-up this and say it’s inexcusable that the show’s management team hasn’t established a culture where she automatically called in sick when she woke up with symptoms.

And my experience has been when a business or person says something like “we strictly followed the rules” it usually suggest that the culture was…

More or less came here to say this too. At the end of the day Ortega is an employee. It’s management’s job to set both the guidelines for whether you work when sick, foster a culture that allows people to follow the guidelines without fear and then to enforce the guidelines (both gently and not so gently as…

That’s what I’ve been thinking too

I have no idea whether Estevez is or is not pro-Vax. But it’s worth remembering that if he’s had CoVid then he has some level of natural immunity. And, if he’s saying that he refused the vaccine while he was dealing with Long Haul CoVid it’s also worth remembering that “the science” is that you should *not* take the…

They make some interesting tonal ... choices. 

They make some interesting tonal ... choices. 

The entire interrogation scene is either comedy gold or the worst thing committed to film. Or both.

False choice: it can be worse and you can still like it more. I love Blade Trinity. But it’s also a very bad movie. 

As someone who actually really likes, maybe loves, the Luke/Kylo/Rey storyline from The Last Jedi and cringed a bit at pandering to the female audience bit I agree with her meta-criticism -- modern Star Wars often feels clinical rather than emotional. 

It’s not that she said Rey was bad, it’s that in context of *the quote* she’s saying that Star Wars is pandering to the female audience and *that’s* bad. That said, given how common it is for quotes like this to miss important context from *the larger conversation* I’d suggest giving her the benefit of the doubt given…

“The excitement the chain generated at the time was so high that the whole enterprise seemed unstoppable” — I was there (well not at Planet Hollywood but as a real adult with professional and academic reasons to pay attention) and while there where certainly puff pieces those clearly felt manufactured. Everyone I knew…

It’s ok. I mean, who among us hasn’t confused Avenger’s Endgame and Suicide Squad?

You misspelled “Crusade’s Daniel Dae Kim”.

I think a lot of right-wing humor seems to be trying to emulate Jon Stewart-era The Daily Show mockery. The problem is they never really understood that the mockery was mixed in with a sense of gallows humor at the absurdity of the system and our relative powerlessness. It was very intentionally humor *as a coping…

Just a point of order — isn’t the whole point of a joke to elicit “emotional opinions”? Like, if it doesn’t then isn’t it definitionally a bad joke?

“To be fair” undersells it. The “white” main character is at least half-Japanese, has a racially ambiguous surname, is played by a Chinese-British actor and his being Scorpions descendent and therefore prophesied to defeat Outworld in Mortal Kombat is the motivating plot point of the movie. Honestly I am completely…