Excellent set of hot takes.
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People who want Star Wars but NOT Tatooine or Luke Skywalker or lightsabers, etc. are really saying they want a different thing. The amount of Star Wars television/movie media that has nothing to do with any Skywalkers is, right now, limited pretty much to The Bad Batch and Rogue One. Every other series has Anakin or…
Yeah, how will they possibly make money on a show you plan on watching twice because you hate it?
Do you think Robert Rodriguez hasn’t read Save the Cat? Or Jon Favreau or Dave Filoni? Also, is it your impression that those people aren’t good at making successful pop culture? GTFO
That’s why the people teaching college screenwriting are doing that and not making the millions of dollars this show is.
Ellis’ entire output declared him to think like a creep; I like some of his stuff but yeah he always seemed over the top.
A troll says what?
Man, Ray Fisher is an irrelevant tool. Literally no one would think about him for two seconds ever if he didn’t keep running his Whedon pile-on.
Ray Fisher is in fact a self-important shit-stirrer and his specific accusations still seem like bogus whining to me.
It goes Mr. Rogers and then him, for sure.
Eh. The thing is, there are always more talented people.
People tend to be attracted to people who help them be a version of themselves they like. Whedon made people seem smart, talented, and sexy through his writing. Not at all confusing why people got interested in him. As many have pointed out, though, it’s kind of pathetic that what HE wanted to be was “a guy who…
Mal Reynolds is super interesting now
Lame. Everyone who worked on those programs knew they were a product of his vision. Yes, there were lots of other creatives, but without him none of those shows have the magic they did. You have to accept that he’s a jerk and a master storyteller. Don’t assume that because you don’t like someone they can’t do valuable…
Yeah, it’s not like the star of Catwoman ever gave a bad line reading…and it’s not like the director of X-Men ever failed to understand something pretty basic….
…which she had a producer credit on…
This isn’t very good Doctor Who but it is at least *pretty good* Doctor Who, which is more fun than 90% of anything else on TV. Chibnall’s decision to go all-in on crazy plotting and goofy characters and to let Whittaker’s Doctor act bonkers and also kind of mean and aggressive is great, especially since Chibnall has…
This show compares quite favorably to Doctor Who, at least prior to the current bad incarnation of it. The themes are identity, personal growth, and the importance of human freedom vs. the knee-jerk desire to control things out of fear. There’s also a sense that the crazy situations and concepts exist as a reason to…
It is totally great of Lin Manuel Miranda to hold himself to such a high standard for representation. I hope those criticizing the film are able to talk about what they would have liked without trashing it.
ContraPoints is fabulous and that person is taking her wildly out of context in a way that perfectly illustrates why cancel culture is both real and bad.