I assume its like that old Simpsons gag , that cows dont look like cows on screen , so you have to paint up a bunch of horses (and to get horses you tape a bunch of cats together), and teenagers look like deranged homunculus monkeys on film , and you have to use late 20s adults instead . (“late 20s adults” were of…

The elephant in the room is that Ben is a theatre person and not a movie star hottie. And that’s okay. But while Charisma Carpenter was clearly 26 during Buffy’s first season, it was a fresh-faced, wrinkle-free, hourglass figure 26. To be honest, Ben looks older than 27. His hairline isn’t his fault, but this isn’t …

It’s one of those plots that’s full of contrivances and a lot of metaphorical tap dancing. If we’re going to analyze it on a deeper level, we should factor in that Conner’s parents and basically the whole school put Evan on the hook for keeping Conner’s memory alive and speaking for him. The grammar of the story…

They are almost always in their twenties and sometimes thirties. It’s fine. Why are you suddenly noticing now?

I think part of the issue is also that Evan isn’t supposed to be cool. Ryan in the OC is cool. Luke Perry on 90210 was cool. Even Rizzo in Grease, cool. So we expect them to look worldly and adult in a way high schoolers don’t. A filled out, adult Evan looks too healthy.

Huh, I don’t know that I’d call it offensive so much as why. Just why.

I think the problem is they actually tried to make him look like a teenager and failed. Somehow I think it would be better if Ben Platt just looked like Ben Platt. I was a teenager between 2000s and 2010s, almost all teen movies (and The CW teen dramas) had older actors back then, nobody tried to hide it and somehow…

Yeah, it’s complicated. The Uncle Remus Stories were compiled by a white journalist in the Reconstruction-era South, based on folktales passed on through generations of slaves. So, there’s a case to be made for how the stories are valuable bits of African diaspora culture.

And that one blogger wasn’t actually condemning the ride! She raised the point as part of a larger evaluation of the ride that wasn’t wholly negative.

Yeah, well if you told an adult woman you thought a 7 year old was prettier than her, wouldn’t most people still find that weird?

Grease is just not that good. That’s what offends me. Also that I’m supposed to believe 40 year olds are high school kids. 

“18 years and 3 months old...I mean 18...I mean how would I know? I’ll pack my things”

They were born the same month as my sister, so I always remember exactly how old they are. When they were 18ish, someone I worked with mentioned their and I immediately blurted out the right number before backpedaling and trying to explain that I didn’t know it on purpose.

Right. I actually think Snow White holds up ok, all things considered. I re-watched it fairly recently and, besides the still gorgeous animation, I was struck that a lot of it works well. It meanders a lot and most of the stuff with the Dwarfs feels like filler with gag sequences taken from the Silly Symphony shorts,…

And in the original story (I assume we mean the Grimm collected version by “original”) there is no kiss, or at least that’s not what revives her.  The Prince wants her coffin back with him and while they’re carrying it they trip and the apple comes out of her mouth.

Good for the media, bad for everyone else. This is a non-controversy that Fox News blew up and now other outlets seem determined to keep going.

Only one fucking blogger was mad about the ending to the Snow White ride. The Fox News and the right wing outrage machine freaked out and said the liberals wanted to cancel Snow White. And now you’re writing about it. So congratulations. They tricked you.

The fact that the mirror are equating beauty with “fairness” of skin tone is a whole other can of worms.

Ever wish they’d limit how long these things could be?

I never liked the ending of the movie mostly it stole it’s ending.  I prefer the version where an angry bear knocks over the coffin and apple falls out of her mouth.