No one is asking you to forgive him. But presuming that the victims saying that this is a good first step for them is only because of public pressure removes just as much agency from them as the people you see as defenders of sexual violence. You’re not white knighting, per se, but you are arguing that any person that…

You don’t blow the brains out of a cartoon version of a chihuahua because you think it’s good. You do it because you know it’s bad, and the audacity of it creates the humor. So it was precisely as cruel as needed to be funny, which by definition would be “cruel beyond the norms of regular conversation”. Only under the…

Now, that’s fair. But the repetitive nature of things still is grating and somewhat unnatural, again, in a way that even previous seasons of this show didn’t have. 

Sure. And Mount Rushmore has historical significance. But again, no-one IN Mecca, or in the Mosque itself, calls it that. It’s just not how folk talk. As well, neither the show nor even the films previously did this. Is it "The Jedi Temple", or "The Jedi Temple of Coruscant"?

Honestly, that was my biggest pet peeve with both these episodes. They’ve narrated literally everything. Like, in Ghostbusters, when Ray asks where these stairs go, Venkman answering “They go up” is supposed to be a joke. Here, Din Djarin and Grogu look at a tunnel that clearly goes down into the earth, which,…

I think I agree that this video exposing the ludicrousness of this particular person has a possibility of shifting the internal narrative on putative gun rights for some.

But I also think that your concerns about where leftists are coming from when being far more dire about the right in this country and the world right…

When she’s looking at the news on her computer at some point, there’s a listicle in the sidebar that says something like “5 Reasons Why Giant Dead Guy Still Just Sitting There In The Ocean”. Probably the most entertainment I got out of Eternals, laughing at that.

Will it be? I thought Eternals was their first bust, enough that except for a background joke in She-Hulk, most of the higher ups are like “that movie never happened, I don’t know what you’re talking about”. 

Exactly the right way to take critique, good or bad. Kudos to him.

We don’t know you, but the fact that you identify simple toleration (“I’ve worked with people from all walks of life”) as a marker for political allegiance to the left, or at least enough to trollishly think that merely being tolerant means you should be tolerable yourself to people you think are rabidly leftist for…

Its biggest failing is its script. It REALLY feels like an old TOS season 3 script that got canned because it was hackier than usual, which is saying a lot. It’s literally every “turns out it was an omnipotent super being that can still somehow be defeated by Kirk” episode rolled into one.

Sure, but that one is far more of a non-sequitur than the others, even the shark cage or Eeyore ones. Fun Home deals with some serious shit that really happened to a real person (most notably the suicide of the author’s closeted and sometimes emotionally abusive father). If the joke was to be the most absurd, should…

Not to yuck anyone’s yum here, but I’d think to cast folks as two of the four leads in a musical, you need to be able to, um... sing. Not “fun but facile parody of a brassy 50's broad singing torch songs” sing, or lip synching to TikToks, but actually sing. Fun Home is extremely hard stuff, both in terms of acting and…

Voyage Home feels like an excellent episode of the show, which itself went back to the “ “travel to our present time” well” a lot itself, even without counting the oblique “we found a Nazi/Roman/hippie planet” pseudo time travel stories. I think Khan is a better movie, but not a better example of the show.…

Saldana is notably one of the most underpaid actresses in Hollywood. She was only paid $8 million for Avatar 2. Her co-star, Sam Worthington, was paid $10 million and a reported **5%** back-end participation. For each Guardians film, she was paid at most half of what Chris Pratt made. For the first one, she made only…

I don’t disagree with the basic premise, but “As **Picard** reminds us”?!?!?!? To quote the man, “I laughed out loud”. Maybe Lower Decks or Strange New Worlds, but Picard has been one clunker after another. Even worse for the premise, this season potentially being the best yet is because it’s clearly copying Wrath of…

To be fair, copyright/trademark/patent scooping, both nefarious and benign (i.e. coincident co-creation of the same or extremely similar work at nearly the same time), existed LONG before AI.

I understand the argument being made. You’re arguing the technicalities by which the wealthy may continue to fuck the average citizen (yes, even in “just” video games) by stipulating that because a precedent has been lasting means it is worthy. In internet comments, not a court. Well-acktually-ing reasonable contempt…

“But legally speaking the legal system works the same way for anybody”

Tell me you’re part of a privileged class in America without telling me you’re part of a privileged class in America.

Counterpoint: Ben Carson is a world-renowned neurosurgeon who went through a decade of post-secondary education. He’s also a blithering idiot when it comes to policy or even his own religious catechism, where he seems to believe that the pyramids of Egypt were not monuments to dead people, but gigantic grain silos.