“Where do these absolutely literalist, self-centered people think fiction comes from?”

Sounds like he has one friend willing to do whatever to help him out, and a bunch of other people offering shitty mental health advice and basically telling him that he’s the problem and he needs to get over it. No wonder he’s in a funk, most of the people around him are jerks.

“I’ve got all five senses and I slept last night. That puts me six up on all of you.”

Thanks for the correction. I withdraw my defense.

There’s really no excuse for this.

Single Write Female

The problem is not that she changed some things, but that she didn’t change the stuff she *should have* changed - the specific town name, and other real world identifying details. All those things could easily have been changed without impacting the story at all.

“I don’t know; Roupenian changed many of the details and used the relationship to express a different dynamic than the real one.”

I interpreted the Roy family as if you took the Murdoch family, mix a few other billionaires in with them, and dilute them through the style of hi-jinks you get through Greek mythology. The degree of backstabbing and weird tangents the family goes through, and the degree of separation from common folk, feels so close…

A lot of people missing the ball on this one, especially the author of the original article. Stop looking for a “point.” It’s a story that’s earnest without being sentimental; are you aware of how difficult that is to pull off in the narrative arts? Wonderful choices all around. Avoids the simplistic and didactic move…

This episode had a lot of sincere emotional energy for Rick & Morty with the Planetina storyline and Summer’s feelings. I’m not sure it was meant to be funny so much as in its feelings.

I am fascinated by this review because, while well-argued, it is exactly counter to my experience of this episode. I found it to be one of the most poignant I’ve watched in w while. I think you left the breadcrumb trail of your disappointment in this episode for us to follow, and I will do my best to do that, if…

I hate that now Rick & Morty is under microscope. Every episode is picked apart with every little detail and is deemed worthy or not. Does it live up to other episodes? On a scale of 1 to 10 where does it land? Blah! Blah! I liked when it was that lil underground show I discovered and not the phenomenon it is now. I’m…

I would hope that even with the reduced charges, he’ll be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. You don’t ‘accidentally’ attempt to start a relationship with a 15 year old if you are 32. 

Yeah, I miss it.

Could be an Adam Driver issue where they just can’t bear seeing themselves act because they can only see what they did wrong.

You’re describing two sides of a homophobic coin. Yes, dudes shouldn’t care if someone thinks they’re gay because that’s ridiculous, but it’s equally problematic to suggest that men who are sensitive and close platonically with other men MUST be gay. It’s saying that being in touch with your emotions is the province…

Where in the fuck are you getting any of this from? I'm saying sexualizing children is inappropriate, I'm not fucking perversing queerdom by saying it's creepy to call a toddler a "heartbreaker."

You need some rest, man.

It’s sad to see Anthony Mackie getting dumped on by clickbait articles, when he took the time to explain his position and make a good point. Imagine being a great classic theatre actor, but every time there’s two men on the stage the audience screams “KISS! KISS!KISS!”. I can totally see how an actor would get tired…

I hope I didn’t give the impression that I think “death of the author” is about whether the author is literally dead. I’m speaking figuratively—about the fact that authorship in modern works is frequently an ongoing concern.