I’m sad that Simone is getting so much hate. She’s not wrong about soulmates (relationship experts say the same!). She probably felt manipulated to hear that that was the basis of her relationship with Chidi... and her experience in the Good Place altogether.

The Luz and Chester storyline would work much better if we had any inkling that those two had feelings for one another. They have zero chemistry.

L. Frank Baum was bigoted against Native Americans, but like his wife and her family was a hardcore feminist. Those Oz books are full of Strong Female Protagonists (and at least one prominent trans character). 

Or let the students paint over it. At least it would be a education. (I don’t know what the situation is in DC, but in my school district arts funding is non-existent.)

I went to the trouble of reading some of the Google reviews for Angry Orchard. Reviews from as long as two years ago were saying this place has quite a few beligerent ex-NYPD officers on staff; one reviewer likened walking around the grounds to doing time in a state penitentiary.

But Barbara was buried, so any supernatural return would be set in a cemetery, no?

For many parents, shielding children from swears isn’t a matter of prudishness but of practicality. Children repeat what they hear. Swearing at school gets them (and parents) into trouble. It’s not fun or financially sound for a parent to miss work to watch a suspended child or attend for a parent-teacher meeting. Much…

Thank you for sharing these. My eldest child just hit adolescence and I’ve been looking for titles to help them navigate consent and abuse issues.

Hve you seen Catherine Breillard’s version of Bluebeard? I watched it as a double feature with Demy’s Donkey Skin.

I noticed! They really telegraphed it with Oscar Isaac’s shaved head + big hipster beard... It still surprises me that some viewers interpreted him as the protagonist and not the villain.

I you’re looking for an excellent feminist take on Bluebeard, look for Catherine Breillard’s film adaptation from a few years ago. Her Bluebeard is a throwback to the original in that he’s as ugly on the outside as well as the inside... No romanticised brooding good looks here. The plot hews closely to the original tel…

Ryan seems to exist for the sole purpose of reassuring naysaying old white male viewers (you know, the ones fretting over a woman Doctor) that there’s still a space for them in the new series. 

“on the hunt for a new, all-purpose Sports™ mascot”

Maybe having the Daleks appear in the radio series count...?

First enough, but I got the idea she wasn’t interested in more MCU movies because he character was treated too much as a generic love interest/damsel in distress. If Marvel decides to go the Jane Foster Thor route, I hope they reach out to her first with a more complex characterisation. 

Same. I grew up in the 90s and what I mostly got out of Spider-Man: Homecoming was “teenagers these days are different (for the better)".

Add to your calculus that Solo was a $270 million movie *that went through time-consuming production problems and bad publicity*, and it only makes sense that Disney is cutting bait on annual Star Wars standalones.

I like your thinking. Give Magneto (or Victor Doom? they have the rights back now) a background as a child soldier forced into war. Make him resentful of Wakanda. Retcon vibrantium into his origin story. Maybe don't even start him out as an X-Men villain, but an Avengers/Black Panther one. 

I’m rather interested in two divergent Thors... Post-Ragnorak Odinson + Jane Foster Thor. Natalie Portman is a capable enough actress to take it on. 

The only reason I can see Downey returning is in cameo roles as Stark’s digital consciousness, comics style. Even less work than filming new flashbacks, since he wouldn’t need to do action scenes. Hell, he wouldn’t even necessarily need to film any scenes with other actors. He could just record his voice and let the…