That’s fair. Though the misery is the point with those books, there’s almost no choice but to lean into it. That special Dahlian magic is a bit more fragile, I think. It’s easy to imagine a much tamer James and the Giant Peach movie, for instance.

Marry Me is very good. Personally I’m hope for the chamber pop of Actor to come back into vogue.

Oof. Not sure how I feel about this. Dahl’s best stuff is slightly jagged around the edges. A little untidy, a little scary, a little inappropriate.

Set on Earth and across multiple contents

now we’re slightly disappointed that she chose this rather than starring in a new CW superhero show

Because they’re the largest identifiable example of franchises/sequels/blockbusters eating the film industry.

In other words, Mobile Suit Gundam exists in the MCU.

it does take some of the fun and optimism out of the Star-Lord episode now that we know that Boseman plays a more traditional version of T’Challa in a number of places in this show

You could at least spare us the fake exasperation with having to write about this. Just don’t write about it!

Also, the trailer opens with Neo looking at a black cat, like the one Sati saw when she woke up at the end of Revolutions, so, like Trinity in the first movie, we’ve gotta ask: Is it the same cat?

“Matrices past”, not “Matrices’ past”.

Obviously, that concept—that vision would be considered a super power to blind people, who have managed to restore civilization without it—smacks of ableism

Clickbait ate the world.

Ah, I understand your confusion; that’s actually Ken Marino.

Once we reach post-scarcity there’ll be no reason not to adapt the Culture books!

If you try to read it at any level other than just skimming, it’s...bad. Like go and actually take English Comp again(?) bad.

O’Malley has one of the best YouTube channels online or off—there are lots of great off-line YouTube channels; we call them “your imagination.”

is there

Could it be any more obvious that you just typed names into Google until you had enough words to string together in a vaguely joke-shaped aside?

They give a shit about literally nothing - except PR dollars and the ad impressions they get from those of us without ad blockers.