Plenty of people can say it’s not thoughtful or smart. People have been saying Ricky Gervais in particular is a dull blowhard for over a decade now.

You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to them.

Morbius is the Jeb! of movies. The jokes can be fun, but for the love of god, don’t engage with the actual thing. It’s just the blandest shit imaginable when it isn’t actively awful.

His only creative involvement with the shows these days might be voice acting (though they’re being iterated on the foundations he constructed, and plenty of their issues are inherent to that foundation), but he’s still heavily involved in the business side of things and absolutely has to deal with Fox higher-ups when…

I usually roll my eyes at the pedants who nitpick every typo on this site, but come on.

The point is that it sucks when every instance of queerness is the blink-and-you-miss-it “totally natural and in the background” variety while Iron Man, Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Scarlett Witch, Vision, Star-Lord, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Panther, Ant-Man, and countless side characters get to have romances…

Because many progressive and minority circles have their own tinier groups of people who care more about creating and litigating jargon for the sake of Maximum Categorization than actually paying attention to people’s lived experiences and actions.

I don’t think Loki had to make a big gesture, because really who cares about Loki’s sexual preferences, it has nothing to do with any characterization of his for his entire existence including in Loki...

The reason it feels fairly galling in Loki is because

Disney’s notorious square-ness has been a cornerstone of their makeup long before the Chinese market was a twinkle in anybody’s eye, and there hasn’t been an MCU release in China since Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019. Corporations are gonna corporation and China’s gonna China, but this still fits a very…

Which is why I’m not exclusively using the character of Peacemaker to make my point, but pointing out that he’s one of many queer characters across a number of their current shows. He’d be a poor example by himself, but he’s not by himself, so his own personal brand of heteroflexibility can exist on its own merits. He…

Peacemaker isn’t the only queer character on the show, and it’s not the only show with meaningful queer representation in DC’s lineup, which is the point.

Nobody owes Disney anything, either. Funny how that works.

It got more viewers than The Book of Boba Fett, which was the Disney+ show it was up against.

Having LGBTQ characters where their sexuality isn’t treated a huge deal that dominates a story is itself progress.

Peacemaker is a direct sequel to The Suicide Squad and is part of the DCEU, and it did huge, record-breaking numbers for HBO Max. It was in no way a small side project.

The problem is that “swapping spit with a man” shouldn’t be an issue in 2022, and that every instance of queerness is nothing more than a background detail.

I read it more as him complaining about Disney’s limitations than him complaining about Kate Herron’s choices.

There’s a whole lot to be said on how DC and Marvel are handling their respective properties, but I think it’s pretty undeniable that DC’s TV shows handle queer characters and topics a hell of a lot better than Marvel’s “background character wears a pride flag” approach. Doom Patrol, Peacemaker and Harley Quinn do a…

Leaving June 2

“A financial gun to the head” is absolutely ridiculous. Netflix is a business serving paying customers, that’s how all this shit works. People are allowed to express their distaste over Ricky Gervais for his bigotry just as much as they’re allowed to express their distaste for Cooking With Paris for being a dumb shit…