I believe it could be against the law not to provide free water, but I’d have to check on that.

Yeah, she was honest about not really caring about men’s opinions or feelings, and that’s unacceptable to a contingent of men who are used to the world catering to them. 

This review is pretty much exactly how I felt as well.  Nailed it.

Yes!

I’m learning there is always going to be someone like you in the comments.

I hate that jackasses have once again hijacked a conversation around a film that could have used improvement, but not for the reason of the main character being a woman. It’s because the movie needed some work. It’s mid-tier Marvel. I wish we could have a real conversation about it’s real flaws without these jackasses…

It’s a movie. Most of us (not including you, apparently) are able to separate the fantasy of comeuppance from the reality of what’s appropriate.

this guy who thinks it’s okay to walk up to her as she’s minding her own goddamn business, preaching that she should smile.

Rolling Stone had a fantastic piece about the Fleabag fourth wall. I love this point about it being not only broken but rebroken:

I’m glad someone noted this. His noticing her breaking the fourth wall—“Where did you go just then?”—was just breathtaking. It was totally unexpected and innovative, and it said something about their relationship without being explicit about it. LOVED it.

I’m a huge fan, and I cannot believe that I did not realize this till just now: Did we NEVER hear her actual name on the show?

You can definitely only have these debates when there’s real depth in the characterization

Yeah, i think people saying that he’s abusing his power as a priest are wrong (why would she care?) It’s more that he’s encouraged her to be so vulnerable and then he turns it into a sex thing. Definitely the most divisive moment however you look at it.

Plus, they were both testing their limits. They both explicitly set boundaries - hers was she didn’t want him to know her, his was that they wouldn’t get physical - and they continued to interact, knowing they were pressing their luck. She crossed her line, making herself vulnerable to him, and he crossed his, and…

I would totally read it as an abuse of power IF he hadn’t also knelt down with her. I read it as a moment of shared humanity, i.e. let’s suffer in both pain and pleasure together.

It’s not like you’re eating them together. 

Grilled peaches are heaven. Almost swapped asparagus for corn. 

“....his arms."

Or if Ratburn was trying to get with an underage girl. 

Having edited a weekly newspaper, I know the feeling all too well. TV shows just don’t get the level of frame-by-frame scrutiny that GoT does. I certainly understand people not realizing how much easier it is for this to happen than they think, but when vitriol is the default reaction, it’s hard to see it as a…