“OK, Disney, here’s the concepts: first, we have a show about a guy who hunts down and kills people for a living. But it’s OK, he ends up kinda adopting a little baby Yoda with force powers who likes eating everything, including the eggs of sentient creatures.

MacClunkey is a good cop!

You nitpick that but not that the author suggests Han is frozen AFTER Luke has his hand cut off?

Age 7, so maybe not a very critically-minded viewer, but I assumed he had to be telling the truth.

After watching the video, I wouldn’t describe that as an AI any more than I’d describe a program that plays music out of a file a composer. At least one human being scripted every single word, breath, and laugh, and I’ll bet they ran through a lot of options before settling on this sample.

Is the complaint, then, that one group of BIPOC will complain about appropriation and another will complain about lack of representation, and BIPOC people as a group should get together and agree on what is or isn’t acceptable and just tell white people that so they can do it?

What are you suggesting, that a TV program or a movie or other piece of art should expect to be exempt from criticism if they meet some specific standard? Why might other complaints about Critical Role be allowable but complaints about how Critical Role relates to race and culture somehow require a specific action…

You’re shifting the ground of the complaint. There’s a difference between calling someone a racist and saying that someone’s behaviors or choices hurt you in a specific way. It’s as if you’ve come across someone who has just escaped an abusive relationship, suffering from trauma, broken bones, and open wounds, and…

I thought it parsed. When I see Ben Kenobi put the helmet on Luke and have him get repeatedly zapped by the remote in the original movie, I think “initial training/lesson.” In this one, I think “teaching a young padawan through the administration of a series of painful shocks doesn’t seem like an especially humane…

Will you tell the 1.3 million African-Americans in the state that they should be expelled from the country because they’re forced to live with the descendants of the people who enslaved them? Or shall I?

A lot of people started playing TTRPGs because of Critical Role, so this is definitely a “why not both” situation. It’s also inspired a bunch of other fan creativity. Calling it a passive experience isn’t giving the reality enough credit.

Fett: “We’re smarter than the people who hire us. We should be doing their job.”

OK. They should also pass a law allowing women to sue men for ejaculating.

After reading the whole article, it clearly fits into a subgenre of this sort: man abused as a child blames his own behavior on that abuse. But of course, most abusers were themselves abused in one form or another. Some people, when abused, opt to become abusers; others swear never to be like their abuser. That…

Then again, some of us may not understand what he meant by that. After all, not everyone has English as their first language, and he was being so flowerly.

“I was just joking with Gal. Repeatedly. Red-faced and shouting. It’s down to cultural differences that she didn’t get how funny that was.”

Maybe if it’s restricted to women in science fiction TV. There were empowered and strong women on TV in drama and even sitcoms for decades prior to Whedon’s shows.

Obvious, but also incoherent.

The question is, will Daredevil also be back for Echo?

Pretty clear that he instead sent all of his people in and was hanging around on the off-chance that they failed.