Prince of Egypt has a bad rep, theologically? It's always been SUPER popular in pretty much every Jewish household I know as a Passover movie.

And of course, "Persepolis" was both pretty good and widely seen here in the states as well as "A Cat in Paris". I haven't seen "Zarafa" yet, because I don't know if there's a subbed version (my French is juuuuust good enough to get the gist of the trailer) but it looked pretty decent. There's also Chomet - his…

I'm not really excusing Andersen's work as much as it comes across in my comments, I think? I think the weird, weird psychology of Andersen just means that real adaptions of his work would be bitter pills to swallow in contemporary America. "Now I'm killing myself as a mermaid, now I'm killing myself as a impoverished…

Last time I read through some of them, the implication I got was that the female characters were his self-inserts. It's a level of self-hatred that is deeply, deeply uncomfortable, but also undeniably the reason his best fables still have so much power.

It's on Netflix now! And it's really good!

Actually, I've quite enjoyed the recent animation coming out of France. I saw "The Rabbi's Cat" the other day on Netflix, and it was a gorgeous adaptation of the graphic novels.

I think most Hans Christian Andersen stories have been adapted poorly over the years, in general because it's hard for contemporary society to get into the headspace of someone so deeply tormented by being an impoverished member of the aristocracy and closeted gay in 18th C. Christian Denmark. Many, if not all, of…

Charlotte's a really awesome character, though. She's clearly Tiana's friend despite their class and race differences, and a rare Disney character who is: a woman, full-figured, younger than 30 without being the lead or the romantic interest, and not evil. I agree that keeping Tiana as a frog that long is the big…

Of course, that is essentially what happened in the real world… so those fans are wrong.

The Avatar-verse series suffers from the same problem as a lot of critically acclaimed shows: an elite cadre of people online really love the hell out of it, and it still gets shitty ratings. So Nick has to constantly weigh the cost of producing it (animation this good is expensive) over the gain in small ratings +…

And I take another head, and with it, the commentators power.

Agree in principle, but we're also told repeatedly in Trek that there are all these humans who have either renounced Fed citizenship or NEVER WERE (like Yar) because one of their ancestors did so. So it's possible that there are a lot of humans in the AQ who just really could care less about what happens to the…

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Sold.

The Weyouns make it seem like there's a numbered order, whereas I'm picturing more of a fleshy Cylon thing.

I actually like "Darkness" because it's fun to watch a heavily pregnant Kira DESTROY a dude. Unfortunately it also happens to be That Episode That Always Is On Spike or whatever for me.

The Broadway Program infects the main computers of the station, and the only way to keep it from killing everyone by deleting life support (and such shit) is to have everyone sing everything? So now it's a reversal of Our Man Bashir in plot, too.

Oh bah. You've just cracked the code.

I actually really love "His Way" and I'm sad that fandom doesn't. It has a bunch of good stuff in it.

Potential fanwank: with the wormhole sealed off, the Founders are also cloning multiple copies of Vorta due to limited resources. (Maybe the patterns for making new Vorta types are somewhere in the GQ.) So they're the same make and model, but not actually the same Vorta.