People tell me all the time that they wear their hearts on their sleeve.

The point here is that it’s not actually that important to cater to every tiny potential audience’s needs or preferences, and that maybe some of the folks making a stink about this are doing so because they enjoy being seeing to make a stink as compared to genuine concern.

Feels like the Roci was more rectangular, but otherwise, spot on.

Here I’m using it in the sense of perplexed in that it’s “less than fine” but still not upset enough to merit others being offended on their behalf.

Real time close captioning of live content mostly exists to satisfy a regulatory requirement. It’s not shocking and I can’t help but wonder how many people check all the boxes of

I think it’s less some of the plot changes for compression, which I agree the 2nd season has done a better job of, than the choice on where to focus energy and also on sapping what little fun there was in the book series out of the show.

It can happen. Rebranding single payer as “Medicare for All” is one example, seeing as Medicare is, you know, not single payer.  

Unfortunately, the same logic loophole can be used to argue for any production getting back to work. How to make this work?

Naw.  For starters, it didn’t last 900 years, there was still plenty of development.  But also, there’s way more ebbs and flows in that sort of sentiment than just the Dark Ages to the Renaissance.  Even in American history there is ebbs and flows in that and the fact is that those ebbs and flows haven’t stopped us…

I think that’s a great point about the quality of the shows in conjunction with the much more loosely connected plot across shows. You can kind of get away with fudging one of those elements but probably not both.

I have a hard time getting worked up over “edgy” (to say nothing of hacky and unoriginal) on-air comments or jokes made for an “edgy” TV show 20 years ago.

Of course it’s not a straight line, but it’s onward nonetheless.

Even that’s a midwit take.  Throughout history there has always been an ebb and flow, and the cycle of “intellectual elites” vs. “unwashed beknighted masses” has played itself out time and time again.  Civilization continues to march on regardless.

I don’t think Starfield’s expectations were that it would be transformational. At least, not from the bulk of the people who actually play the game, the vast majority of whom are not the people who endlessly talk about video games online as superfans, super critics or who do it for money.

The funny thing is that there is no more perfect an example for the midwit graph meme than people who are paranoid about Idiocracy becoming real, or people who think that Flagpole Sitta was erudite social commentary.

I mean that’s all true butttttt ... I don’t think Disney is crazy for thinking there’s a marketable audience for people who have watched all the films.  I think they’re banking a bit too much on people watching all the interconnected TV shows but I can understand why they’d make that mistake after how much money they…

That’s totally true, but also not what the author said in the header, which was specifically related to Season 1 of the show. Lazy editing really, but this is Jezebel 2023 so what do we expect?  

I’m sure there’s still some white space somewhere on the page that Filoni can draw a very curvy and jagged line to in order to color it in.  

Uh, no, I think people who grew up with the movies didn’t care but Christensen was not a good actor at that stage of his career and it definitely made the prequels painful even for those of us trying to look past Jar Jar Binks and all the other nonsense. He seems like he’s grown since then and really figured out the…

In terms of the “shell” being different, that shell is pretty different. And I’m not sure the game underlying it’s core is all that distinct to Bethesda. Witcher 3 has a better plot that is more fun to follow but the core of the content in the game follows the same gameplay loop.