The short story is very funny, it’s a riff on the Little Mermaid where the mermaid goes “Why should I turn into a human? Why don’t you turn into a fishman instead?”

I think I get what Payne means though. Yes, all movies become dated, but there is a difference between that and a “period piece” set in a time before it was made because those so often become nostalgia-tinted and have all these “clever” winks to the audience about characters predicting that computers will never catch…

It’s so strange how folks are all “MCU is completely failing now, everything was a flop” when A. Every MCU movie has been in the top ten movies of the year for that year, and B. Acting like post-pandemic box office should be compared to the pre-pandemic, massive-cliffhanger-and-arc-plot-resolving Endgame and treated…

It’s weird reading a post treating movies like Captain Marvel or basically 90% of the Disney+ shows as if they have bad reviews and not excellent reviews and box office.

It sounds like lazy writing, to be honest. “What’s a good way to create relationship drama? I know! One of them cheats on the other!” If that’s all you can come up with, you’re not that good of a writer.

Like in most situations, House is not wrong here.

With any other outcome it would’ve been hard to explain why the core characters wouldn’t have a role to play in The Boys S4, but it seems like they literally locked them away so that they can’t. And while Cate and Sam are both still at large and now famous “heroes”, it’s easy enough to hand-wave away why either of…

Chandler and Monica as a couple has held up really well in retrospect. It’s like the writers wanted to go in the completely opposite direction of Ross and Rachel and so made a really mature, loving, supportive relationship.

YA stuff has gotten a lot more raunchy if this was YA.

I quite like Andre so would be bummed if they write him out of the show. Nepo baby who’s a completely apathetic loser until he’s presented with a single crisis and suddenly realizes he has a moral backbone, he’d just never been in a position to use it before.

Sam was tortured for years in a prison run by psychopathic humans, he gets out, sees a world where supers live in peace, and sees that the government wants to control the supes.

well, he found the dead from the virus kids...

Karen Gillan and John Cho met earlier this year to talk about a Selfie movie if they can get the film rights from the WB. I hope they’ll be able to negotiate after the strike.

John Cho is a pretty reasonable offer, I wonder if this will be like Selfie where I question why he isn’t a bigger TV star.

I confess to being a sucker for a movie or show with a well created, non-campy seventies vibe. I find something oddly cozy in a “Mary Tyler Moore” kind of way about them and gentle Christmas stories set in this era, even if they are only mediocre, are like a narcotic for me. I watch the Ed Asner ”The Gathering” TV…

I ain’t got time or energy to stock the stuff and make homemade pesto every time I need it. Yeah, the jar stuff isn’t nearly as good, but it’s good enough to blob onto a sandwich or pizza, and it’s convenient and lasts a long time.

Executive Producers are the highest level of the seven levels of writers that the WGA has in their contracts, starting at staff writer. I’d link but they’ve never fixed that - if you put both in a google search for those two titles along with level you can find a few lists and explanations.

Perhaps that an imaginary Osage director with the skill of Martin Scorsese might have felt comfortable enough to center the movie directly on the Osage experiencing the crime, rather than on one of the white people involved in it?

I knew that the twist at the end of season 2 was going to be too tricky to untangle, but I’d hoped...because I really liked Nathan and Nora.

How I’m reading this is that the movie’s turned out to be a respectful and sensitive telling of this piece of Osage history. It sounds like it’s imperfect, which really is a given with an Italian American director (albeit an amazing one) rather than an Osage director at the helm. The Osage quoted seem to have some…