“The left don’t want kids to hear it, while the right just want us all to be polite little children, to be seen and not heard. Both have issues.”

I think Sokka’s sexism is important because it’s not just him; when the Gaang gets to the Northern Water Tribe, Katara is told she can only train as a healer because that’s the role for women who are water benders there. Sokka has just picked up the customs of the earlier generations, and like a lot of the stuff…

They were cringeworthy in the animated show. They were meant to be cringeworthy. You can tell almost immediately that Katara is level-headed and responsible and that Sokka’s comments about gender aren’t based on any rational thinking. It’s not exactly subtle, but this is a kid’s program, and when those teach lessons…

I mean I guess?... but if the issue is the character arc is about getting over his flaw/wrong attitude, he kind of has to have one in the first place. So your only option is giving him a different flaw/bad worldview and at that point I mean what’s the point? So we can see him get over (feel free to insert your own bad…

Okay, so on another Sokka-related note:

This is a side effect of the left claiming that “context doesn’t matter” anymore for the better part of a decade. 

Look at Disney’s last live-action reboot, The Little Mermaid, which rewrote Ursula’s iconic villain song “Poor Unfortunate Souls” to remove sexist lyrics (“The men up there don’t like a lot of blabber/They think a girl who gossips is a bore,” among others). Ursula’s problematic verse was a deliberate narrative…

I’m jealous!

Kelly is horrible but the White Knights in here need to google “Erin Moriarty Plastic Surgery”.

I’m waiting for Sherlock Holmes to weigh in.

Whether they worked for you or not, there are obviously several moments in the sequel that are aiming for the tone of part one. Most obviously, the natural history museum, which I personally found to be an incredible scene emotionally, and an incredible application of alternative gameplay to endless action.

There’s absolutely a “Giraffe moment” in part 2, with the natural history museum and the rocket launch.

Joel and Ellie’s trip to the Wyoming Museum of Science and History for her birthday was an amazing part of a great game.

I can’t stress enough how meaningful the giraffe scene was in the first game. It’s a beautiful moment, and one of the reasons The Last of Us Part 2 is a lesser work to the original, imo because there’s nothing like that in there.

For something really significant, I would. “Everyone” knows certain things which some people haven’t encountered yet.

I dipped in and out of the series. The pilot hit the usual zombie movie beats, but it was creative and had a lot of panache. Then I watched the Kansas City episodes with Melanie Linskey, and they were very silly. Still, the premise was neat, so I got the game, which has excellent writing and direction, but the…

I would seriously consider editing that Memento notice.

I think it’s a mistake to make Barbie’s nominations the yardstick by which we decide how feminist the year in film is. Gosling didn’t take Robbie’s spot. Robbie’s spot was taken by another women. Is it more feminist if Robbie were nominated but, say, Annette Benning was not? How?

“Ryan Gosling was nominated for playing Ken in Barbie this morning, but Margot Robbie failed to score a Best Actress nomination for playing Barbie herself. (This isn’t to take away from Gosling’s performance at all; it just would have been nice to see Barbie nominated for Barbie.)”

Do people think Robbie and Gosling were directly competing against each other? Because that’s the vibe I get every time someone talks about this.