While people can certainly enjoy what they like, I feel like the concept of “world building” has spun wildly out of control so that fans are just asking for elaborate encyclopedia entries to be made instead of stories with anything to say or emotional character arcs to portray. If all a story is doing is telling you…

My concern with spinoffs like this is that they won’t allow for the main story issues to be resolved. It just feels like this series means that Vought and their Compound V super creation program are going to trundle along mostly unchanged, in spite of all of the events happening in The Boys. If your characters can’t…

I’ve been as critical of modern Trek as anyone. I genuinely don’t like Discovery. Picard Season 3 had some nice moments, but overall the show is bad. Strange New Worlds is good, but I haven’t felt like it has had a lot of truly great moments (which is admittedly a fairly high bar). Lower Decks is probably my favorite…

Yep, there’s plenty of money in the entertainment industry. I just needs to be shared more equitably.

The problem is that these companies own these IPs, so they feel like they may as well do something with them rather than nothing. Sure, the core audience for MoTU is old, but if you’re interested in making a sword and sorcery action adventure movie AND you happen to own the MoTU IP, you might as use the MoTU setting…

Just stop spending so much money on movies and hoping that they’re going to be blockbusters that attract everyone’s attention. Make more movies for less than $100 all in and be pleasantly surprised if/when they become breakout hits.

Making shareholder profit the be all end all duty of corporate executives is at the root of a lot of our current problems.

That’s nonsense. “The share of funds available to pay actors” is whatever the studios want it to be. RDJ made lots of money on Marvel movies. The movies he was in made immense amounts more that went to the studios and their shareholders. Management is the problem, not higher paid labor.

It’s wild to me how cartoonishly evil the studios are coming off here. They truly don’t care about how they come off and are presumably assuming that the general public either doesn’t care or will quickly forget. But man, what assholes.

Someone that understands how it works. This isn't a general strike in which all workers stop working. It's a strike between workers and owners in a specific industry over the terms of a new contract that's being negotiated. SAG and the WGA aren't asking everyone that supports them to walk out of their jobs, and doing…

The only games that I ever replay are Psychonauts, Grim Fandango, and the KOTOR games. They're just great.

Oh ho. Thanks!

Ok, I mean, as I said, I generally like Lower Decks. That could be funny.

Fuck. The. Studios.

Is there a specific upcoming episode that you have in mind, or are you referring to the Lower Decks show in general? Because in general I feel like the Lower Decks does comedy in Trek pretty well.

This was the first miss of the season for me. Trek can and should be funny, but there were just too many goofs that felt like they undermined Spock's character just for the sake of the goof.

The take is a bit too harsh, but it’s closer to the mark than the people who think that this is a great movie. Everything outside of the mech/monster fights ranges somewhere from ok to powerfully bad. And the fights are fun but pretty dumb. That’s not the recipe for a great movie.

This is just one of those movies where I just can’t get onboard with the uber fans. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fine. The mechs and monsters both have cool designs. But the fights go on a bit too long for my taste. The bigger problem is that the script is largely not great and Charlie Hunam is a powerfully bad actor.

There’s no complexity here: fuck the studios. 

I know that this might not technically be the worst, but I’ve really soured on Singer’s X-Men suits in the last 20 years. It’s just emblematic of the time period in general, when people didn’t think that audiences would take comic book stories seriously, or that comic book characters could support serious stories…