You're the magic portrait.

By the way, the AV Club’s new overlords at Paste had some nice things to say about the AV Club’s comment section.

To be clear, I agree. I am not saying that they were flawless directors with no other commitments and Disney just dropped them because S8 wasn’t well received. I am saying that Disney seemed to, for awhile, attach hot directors to their movies and quietly kill the project (if anything even existed beyond an idea) once…

Annnd open mouth, insert foot. No sooner had I brought up “Confederate,” the greys reminded me why it was best not to.

I think with them in particular, it wasn’t just that S8 flopped. It was that S8 flopped and they were reportedly given the option to have more episodes and time to improve it and they didn’t take it. I think the talk around that time was that they were supposedly focused on pitching something to Netflix that I think…

So we’re just forgetting “Confederate” happened? Because that was their first big thing after leaving GoT, and if not for a certain “very stable genius” somehow blundering his way into 1600, may have gotten filmed.

I got the sense for awhile, post-ST, that Disney was floating all these names and soliciting scripts in order to gauge crowd reaction and see what was the safest bet to go forward. Patty Jenkins was doing something on the strength of WW... until WW84 flopped and then she was out. Benioff and Weiss were doing something…

I mean theres always Gillian Jacobs ,Samara Weaving or  Jaimie Pressley.

On Stranger Ties is a movie about pirate apparel, while the one you’re thinking of is On Stranger Tides (Disney bought the rights from Tim Powers and neglected to use the contents of the book, which may account for the forgettable nature of the film.)

I don’t think anyone hates Chris Pratt for being Christian.  It’s his particular brand of Christianity that people have a problem with.  So it seems a different pedigree of bullying. But there could be something to the overexposure thing, as everyone loved Chris Pratt when he was just the guy on Parks and Rec.

Shhhh. You’re interfering with the narrative.

The several women in Frozen Empire that bust ghosts might disagree with your final paragraph there. 

While Jeffrey Jones was very good in Beetlejuice, the absence of Glenn Shadix will be more missed, who is unable to reprise his role of Otho on account of being dead.

Fuck cancer. And I hope the people who spent the past few weeks clamoring for details about a stranger’s private life feel a little bit bad about themselves after this news.

Yeah, that was the point I was getting at (in a roundabout way).

What are you talking about? Most labor is paid by the hour, why would they be paid more to do less work?

This may surprise you, but I did more work. Including holding stakeholder meetings, visual inspection of network gear, and got a free massage at work.

You just described someone’s dream job right there. I’m not sure what’s hollow about that.

SO an artist ran the generation and then altered the AI image before it was final?

This is what I want AI for. I had to come up with 3 project charters this week. I used Copilot to give me the outlines and then edited the documents. Instead of 40 hours, it took 8.

That’s what happened here.

Can we be a little smart about how we talk about generative A.I. and its use in media?