Peter Pan still retains its copyright in the UK, just not in the rest of the world, ISTR. incidentally, tons of revisionist fantasy works have combined the Oz, Peter Pan and/or Alice worlds.

the only film of his directed that he actualy wrote, though, too, I think.

see The Fall. that has much story as you will ever need.

again, she excels at short fiction. I did not care for her longer works, either, also with the exception of Lathe of Heaven.

if literally mean that you never cared for her novels, then I have to say that excels at shorter form fiction. I have not really cared for he novels, either, with the exception of the utterly pefect The Lathe of Heaven. but in her short works she writes as good or better she writes as well or better than any sf or…

I know Star Wars planets have only one ecosystem but do they have only one settlement, too? I can imagine that as just another another part of Tatooine.

counterargument to JJA’s: if he needed to make The Force Awakens like A New Hope in order to ease audiences into it, why did he make his first Star Trek film so unlike Star Trek?

(I also do not think audiences need spoofeeding in order to get into a sequel to the most popular film series of all time.)

assuming you can even call it sexist. I have not read the book so I won’t come to any conclusions until I have not.

in her defense, she meant, “how did a sympathetic adaptation pass muster in 2016”.

a friend went down to Washington DC dressed as James Madison to take place in the Democracy Spring protests. he got told not to go on campus (if I remember rightly... I could check on FB but that interrupt my flow) for dressing up as a slave owner. absolutely true story. it happened a few days ago.

the author of this article (not Barthes) says that Kipling’s background does not absolve him. in effect (my words, not the author’s) we should treat it like a book written today, not in 1894. and cites Barthes’ essay as justification for that view.

Reminder: Rudyard Kipling Was A Racist Fuck and The Jungle Book Was Imperialistic Garbage

no, only 99.9% percent. we can make exceptions for non-white cishet male authors.

the article leaves out the part where you explain why we must treat Barthes’ work as inviolate holy scripture.

spoiler in that last one!