You’d have to be totally crazy to assume Tarantino was malicious in having her drive the car or happy that she got hurt. Dangerous, stupid, careless, sure, but the sloppy writing of the original article mixed with the outraged reactions (often from people who already didn’t like the director for one reason or another)…

Even Harmon hasn’t tried to tie his bad behavior to being on the spectrum. He’s been pretty up-front that it is his own personality/depression/substance issues that fueled most of it.

Paddy Considine writes and directs and is openly autistic and was in Hot Fuzz so he gets a lifetime pass from me! But his movies aren’t exactly a joy to watch in the same way Community and Rick and Morty often were/are. And apparently Dan Aykroyd? I’m sure there are others but I can’t imagine it’s easy publicly…

The problem is, a lot of the hurt he caused was due to his substance abuse, not necessarily his autism. And while that goes some way toward explaining why a person does hurtful things, it’s never an excuse. “I’m sorry I hurt you, I was drunk,” just doesn’t cut it.

He spoke on his podcast a few months ago about having a crush on one of his writers and making inappropriate advances towards her, and how shitty he felt about it. He didn’t name her but now it’s clear he was taking about Megan.

I won’t excuse Harmon for generally being a shitty boss in the early seasons of Community, and I think Ganz has every right to call him out for it. He has acknowledged having been an asshole and apologized for it. To my knowledge the shitiness didn’t cross into sexual harrassment. Which isn’t a ‘Get out of Being a…

I think this is the first one of these that specifically really bothers me, in that I expected better out of George than this. The rest of them bother me in the general sense, of course, but none of those harassers and assaulters were people I particularly looked up to on any sort of personal level.

The Doctor should always look like a person who owns a used bookstore, if you ask me.

True Blood. One minute thirty seconds of perfect Southern Gothic mood, imagery, and music, usually followed by an hour of what felt like watching a burning dumpster full of Anne Rice novels.

This isn’t Uzo Aduba’s first voice work. She was Bismuth in Steven Universe last year.

One thing to note is that Avatar is written and animated for the English language, as opposed to being a Japanese cartoon dubbed into English. So the awkwardness is more due to it being a pilot than to anything else. It definitely improves quickly. You might want to skip ahead a bit to get a better taste for it. …

It isn’t though, it’s a western cartoon that mimics the style. That’s not an indicator of quality, it’s better than a lot of ‘real’ anime, just think it’s worth mentioning that you shouldn’t judge a medium based on something only tangentially related to it.