Dial it back a bit, man.

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Due to work travel, I’ve visited the Great Wall of China four times. The Star Wars thing is probably more fun.

Nah, this is just marketing. The museum still put the empty canvases on display, the director issued a statement supporting the artist, and both museum and artist are getting *way* more free publicity than they ever would have with the remake artwork. The supposed remake idea is so lame, you’d have to convince me the…

Yeah, I’d say it does make the leagues look sexist and her a victim of that sexism, which I think is the point of putting that in the narrative.

Yep, good point.

Hmm, yeah, that’s a good point. I guess she has always identified herself as a Georgian.

In the state of California, where this suit was filed, claims of this sort likely fall under Civ. Code § 45. That statute defines defamatory statements as “a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any person to hatred, contempt,…

I would guess because this complaint doesn’t consider the context of the show. Queen’s Gambit takes place during the Cold War 1960s, during which Georgia was a republic within the Soviet Union (it didn’t declare independence until 1991.) In that timeframe, the Western world often didn’t make any sort of distinction; ci…

That doesn’t mean they have a winning *legal* case, just that they have the advantage in public perception. If Netflix decides they don’t mind the cost or the optics of beating an 80-year old woman in court and wants to go to trial, I think they win it.

That’s the way the scene reads to me, that Gaprindashvili had her career limited due to sexism, denying her a shot at male competitors. There’s nothing defamatory about that; it didn’t imply she couldn’t beat male players, only that she didn’t have the chance. Billie Jean King is a decent real-world reference for…

The Bruce Lee example is spot on, and frankly much more negative than anything Queen’s Gambit might be showing about Gaprindashvili.

I’d assume it’s simply for story reasons, trying to show that the fictional protagonist Beth Harmon is more tested/capable than even a real chess master. It might even be that the writers were working from bad research and thought the claim was historically accurate. The idea that a female chess champ might have not…

Yeah, there’s no legal win for her here. Even if we ignore it being a work of fiction that’s not claiming historical veracity, Netflix’s error isn’t defamation per se (meaning they didn’t claim she’s a murderer or something), and there’s no way they can prove special damages to an 80-year old retired chess player in…

Not about the money, but still happy to peel off that $5,000,000.

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The Roy Kent CGI truthers might be on to something...

I’m putting this episode in B territory just for the inclusion of Dave Bautista’s south London doppelgänger.

If you’re putting mayo or another sauce like ketchup or mustard on your burger, the sauce should go on both the bottom and top bun, with the majority of the sauce on the top bun.

I hope she’s got her lawyers working on contingency, because this is not defamation per se and they’re never going to prove special damages.