Apparently no one at the AV Club remembers the Brothers Grimm fairy tales and all the other terrifying children’s literature that preceded, and clearly informed, the work of Walt Disney. He is not the originator, merely a perpetuator of the kind of children’s “entertainment” that is also meant to impart a strict moral…

They were all toddlers when that came out

So Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil, huh?

Better yet, ya’ll remember when this site was remotely navigatable? I tried to find a review of an episode of The Office (for some reason I can’t quite remember) and it’s nigh-impossible. You have to go out to Google and do an advanced search to get anywhere on this site that’s older than like... a month after it…

Oh yeah, there’s no way in hell there would’ve been a Star Wars sequel trilogy without the original stars as long as any of them were still alive. They just needed a story to tell.
I mean, JJ Abrams has said in interviews that he worked out the overall storyline for TFA over the course of about an hour. He says this…

Johnson did not "undo" a single thing of Abrams'. He subverted a lot of AUDIENCE expectations but he respected and pursued everything that Abrams set up. Just because he didn't do the thing Abrams secretly, without ever writing it down, WANTED him to do, doesn't mean he undid anything. It means Abrams is a hack and a…

“I’m a little hesitant to talk about this because I don’t want this to be the only thing that people pull from this show,” says Tarantino, before making a statement practically guaranteed to be the only thing that people pull from his nearly three-hour conversation with Rogan.

Your questioning of the efficacy of the use of agency is an impingement of personhood and it is toxic. And quite possibly problematic.

I, Hank Rearden, have developed a special kind of laserdisc that will blow all other forms of puny media out of the water. I am, as we speak, single-penisedly etching the massive Snyder Cut onto this disc with a special proprietary etching wand I have developed that fits snugly into my muscular urethra.

WTF kind of org in tbks day & age actually has pensions but is irresponsible enough to put the cash in hedge funds?

“...setting traps for retail...”

I’d like to join you in this venture. Here’s my resume, a space battle I drew in my sixth-grade math notebook over the course of a semester. My quote is half the 30 mil.

“Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar

“That guy called us a mob, let's get him!!"

he joins a chorus of privileged public figures who have felt a need to speak out against this maligned “cancel culture”—which tends to actually consist of marginalized communities speaking out against sustained, systemic abuse

The episode gets points off for reminding me of Midichlorians, the single worst writing decision George Lucas ever made.

Don’t have an address but I hear they like to hang out in the basement of Pizza places

And, after all, we have so many statues in public parks honoring the ancient greeks? It’s totally apples to oranges. Besides which, the bits we respect those ancient philosophers for is their plays, math, and other intellectual work. The primary thing that those traitorous participation trophies are celebrating is the…

When I passed out from low blood sugar at Comic Con, the medics gave me a Star Trek IV.

Gee, maybe some of “the love” went away when Disney decided what we all wanted was a slapdash sequel trilogy that made our childhood heroes miserable failures, cowards, and parents of a school shooter? And then totally undercut the finale of the original films by having Palpatine survive (more or less, clone,…