Yeah, the only moment so far where the actor playing Rand has shown any personality was in the scene with the darkfriend barmaid, when she suggested that he and Mat were a couple, and his response was a cool “If I wanted a man, I could do better than him.” It’s the only thing that gives me hope that maybe there’s more…

I think there’s a missing “not” between like and being.

Not as much as we had O’Keeffe.

When the V:tM guys sued Kevin Grevioux for the Underworld script, his reaction had to be, “You gotta be kidding me! I expected Anne Rice, but this is ridiculous!”

Yeah, there was a question of why the lights were on in all those empty skyscrapers...

Yeah, I can sometimes understand the idea of a faithful live action remake of a 90-min to 2-hour animation movie. For a 7+ hour season of television, it strikes me as kind of crazy and pointless.

A 2.5 hour version of ZSJL would suck, possibly as much or worse than the theatrical Justice League. The thing that makes this movie a weird sort of fun and more personal than the average superhero film is the gothic excess of four hours of Snyder Stuff with nothing at all cut out of it. Impose any kind of restraint…

They never wondered. They hired Whedon because they wanted the opposite of Snyder. Whedon’s MCU swan song famously featured the Avengers prioritizing saving civilians over punching killer robots, which was considered shots fired at Snyder’s Man of Steel. Snyder, in Batman v. Superman responded by passive-aggressively…

I like Sorkin more than most these days, and haven’t seen this yet, but unless Jesse’s completely off with his description (and I doubt that he is), I don’t see how you can talk about Being the Ricardos without Studio 60 coming up. One problem with Studio 60—which came at a time when many of us didn’t know that “bad”…

I’ll give it a try, although it’s been an eternity since I looked at any of the statutes. RICO was created as a tool against organized crime. To oversimplify, it works a bit like a conspiracy charge, where a bunch of people get together to plan a crime, and that planning is itself then considered a crime. The problem…

Probably a combination of both. There are some clients who just won’t shut up, and the lawyers just have to deal with that and try to put them in positions where they’re less likely to damage themselves. However, if you’re his lawyer on those civil suits, you might want to get the idea that not all producers have the…

Yeah, Baldwin speaking publicly on this has a Jack Donaghy problem, since his natural way of speaking is kinda ridiculous and sounds insincere.

Yeah, but I think that kind of goes to Baldwin’s “purely creative producer” point. I don’t think the job that Cruise has as producer of the Mission: Impossible franchise (which he famously seems to have real control over and a substantial personal financial stake in) is in any way similar to the job Baldwin had as a…

Agreed, but remember why we’re in this particular prequel space to begin with: Martin has written a lot of background for himself for his continuing work on the Song of Ice and Fire, and handing those notes over to an HBO executive to make a TV series out of is apparently a lot easier than producing a new finished…

And this shows me for posting drunk, I get to write “Amanda” instead of Samantha.

The premise I’ve signed on to with this film is that damn close to 20 years later, I no longer expect anything a Wachowski sibling produces to actually be good. I’ll watch it anyway—HBO Max this month is a sunk cost at this point—and if it has any redeeming qualities whatsoever, I get to be pleasantly surprised.

I’m all for the fantasy, it’s just that it’s shallow. I enjoyed the series a lot, until it got unbearably repetitive in the later seasons (to the point where I missed most of the last season, where they apparently stop characterizing Amanda as an R-rated Bugs Bunny for a while and treat her like a human being again).

I was in law school at the time when this was a cultural phenomenon, and it was a rule in my study group that we either had to stop in time for SATC’s first airing, or take a break to watch SATC. My study partners and I loved the show, but there was at least one time when one of them (a woman) got triggered and yelled…

I could’ve sworn there’s actually a line before the Peet reveal scene about the guy’s wife kicking him out, in the period where the dumbass guys are all suffering post their Peet breakups. IIRC, the BJ happens off-screen, and it’s only revealed at the end, so it might not have connected that this was the reason.

It’s also funny seeing how that misogyny still shapes the perception of the show today, that because they are women who like sex and feminine things, they are somehow shallow characters. In reality they finally laid some groundwork for female characters that were both good and selfish people all at once.