I honestly find it bizarre that this story about imperialism, colonialism, privilege, etc, and people are legit saying “wow what if Armond just gave him the right room?”. He’s met 1000 Shanes before this Shane, this was just the breaking point.

I’ll watch this! I was vaguely interested in The Witcher and so checked it out. I liked it a lot. Then I decided I actually loved it and watched through in full a second time. I think it was rich with complexity. (Unlike unnecessarily complex, pretty empty without the confusing web of unclarity of, say, Westworld.)

Sure, most of the characters returned to their default position, but I thought the final message was optimistic. Maybe it’s unrealistic, or rare, or maybe you just have to be the youngest cast member.

There is a non-zero percentage of people (especially in their 20's) who want to fight the system, but have someone else do the dirty work. Paula is very much the avatar of that world, even when contrasted with the fake wokeness in Olivia.

I fully understand that exec guy was talking about this as an experiment in logistics.

Appreciate the real response and not just calling me flat out racist for addressing the literal complaints/concerns mentioned in the article.

If it’s a prequel they should really be filming it in plain old Zealand.

I do love his movies, but there’s something unbearably smug about him. And it comes across in these kinds of moments. Like he needs to have his joke. I dunno - could be jealously I guess.

Re: the firing of Lord and Miller on the Solo movie: What I remember reading in several articles at the time was that Lawrence Kasdan (responsible for writing several Star Wars films going all the way back to Empire) really clashed with Lord and Miller’s comedic, improvisational style where they would at times allow…

While I loved Thor Ragnarok, there was bathos fatigue by the end (Banner flopping on the ground in the final fight was predictable in a movie that subverted as many action scenes as Ragnarok did, and more importantly you’re allowed to make us feel even a little sad about Asgard being destroyed without Korg…

I honestly thought Roxana was being sarcastic by calling her “poor, sweet Paula”.

Chekov’s EpiPen.

I’m in the grays, so just a few comments on your pointers:

So thinking a bit about the continuity- man.

Ok, so the Rick in birdperson’s memories is clearly our Rick. But if he moved in with version of Beth that was alive- that’s a different dimension. Then he switched dimensions again after the Cronenberg thing.

He said he was going to after the squirrle thing, but lets assume…

We’re missing the real lede here:

It’s hard to complain when even a bad Rick and Morty episode is still better than the average comedy show.

I am not sure I agree that Nicole’s line about still being in pain quite reaches the level of histrionic (a word historically used to diminish women’s real life concerns). She is in pain, and she’s ashamed, and she’s upset that Mark told their son something *about her* that she didn’t want the kids to know. Sure, it…

It’s not weird—Snyder’s a bad artistic influence on the DCEU. Dude’s aesthetic peaked with Sucker Punch and that should tell you something.

I took the Memory Tammy saying “I really did love you” to be Birdperson’s subconscious trying to overcome denial, or a coping mechanism and attempt at closure over the trauma that occurred due to Tammy and his death. Or maybe BP was just creating a reciprocation, in memory, of the feelings he had for her. Or maybe I…

The show highlights his criminal inexperience by showing a stack of money right next to the bracelets, which he ignored for said bracelets.