All these characters seem . . . fine.  But none of them have been given enough characterization for me to feel any real connection with them.  Like, what character traits does Rhaena have? 

Despite doing some pretty awful stuff, Daemon was one of the easier characters to root for in Season 1 — he was proactive and (unlike basically everyone else) not a fucking miserable sad sack all the time. He was even occasionally clever, provoking Vaemond into saying outright what others had only insinuated, and then…

That remains my biggest problem with the show. I guess we’re supposed to be rooting for Rhaenyra, but only by default. The character is so sad and ineffectual.  Couldn’t the show offer us something better than, “She’s not actively evil, I guess?”

Even movies that are completely made up, and even kind of silly, are usually designed to reflect in some way the world the audience is used to. That’s why Arnold shoots villains in True Lies with a gun and not, say, a potato that makes rainbows. It’s why the person playing Arnold’s daughter is Elia Dushku and not…

I’d forgotten there was that ban on depicting priests as child molesters.  Someone should tell Philip Seymour Hoffman.

For what it’s worth, I don’t love the term “sportsballs,” which is often used as a way to position oneself as too good to care about sports. (I’m not saying that’s what you’re trying to do here.)

That would suggest you use “they” for everyone.  If not, you still have to remember who uses gendered pronouns and who doesn’t.

That would suggest you use “they” for everyone.  If not, you still have to remember who uses gendered pronouns and who doesn’t.

I think what that misses is that sports do have an annual award they give to the supposed best team. In fact, the whole season is structured around determining who gets that award. There are typically also awards given to individual players, coaches, etc. on an annual basis.

Yeah. Much to my shame, I don’t have a photographic memory of the events of True Lies, so I’m open to the possibility that there are jokes, comments, etc. in the movie that are inappropriate. But none of those things are described in the article. The author’s objection mainly seems to be that the terrorists in the…

Pretty cool that they’re releasing this on August 29, the date of Judgment Day in the Terminator movies.

Is it xenophobic to depict terrorists as being Arab/Muslim? The movie came out in 1994, two years after al-Qaeda terrorists killed six people trying to destroy the World Trade Center using a car bomb, and four years after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole killed 17. Of course, in 1994, the most striking examples of…

In that the Minions have just been pretending all this time, and plan to massacre their foes with shotguns all at once?

That raises an interesting question -- do they translate the Minions?  Because they do intersperse English (or maybe English-ish) words in among the total nonsense, to help you understand what they’re saying.

Making broad conclusions about people by the way they walk is definitely a good idea.

Right. There’s plenty of reason to be suspicious about Louis C.K.’s apology, as there always is when someone apologizes only after they’ve been caught. But there does seem to be an eagerness to demand these apologies, then nitpick them to death so that we can proclaim that people haven’t apologized, or haven’t…

Why did you post to explain to others what “with prejudice” meant when you didn’t know?  You could at least have read the article, which explains what the term means.

To the extent “this is getting personal,” that’s on you, not on bfred. You brought up being asexual, completely unprompted. For that matter, you brought up condoms in a thread that has nothing to do with them.  I don’t think that’s “inappropriate” — you’re welcome to tell people online whatever you want. But you took…

“”It’s about the bug!”

To be more optimistic, articles like this seem to be on the decline under the new management. Barsanti in particular tended to treat all news as the opportunity for bitter, smug whining.