Some people are actually saying it’s bad. Like not perfect?!? Are you kidding me? The giant child in me (I’m 42) had a fucking needgasm upon seeing this episode. I never, ever, ever after the 90s thought I would get to see Luke skywalker as a jedi, let alone actually peak Luke and training a jedi. Like what do people…

Can we talk about how INSANELY good the CGI for Luke’s face was for this episode?

Yup. That quote about Gadot just pissed me off to no end because of my own experience. Oh, you’ve studied English for years, has a Ph.D in English literature, has published academic texts in English, and even teaches English composition at university? Yeah, but you have an accent, so clearly the native speaker with an…

Moreover, as director, it was HIS JOB to communicate clearly. If she misunderstood because of language, it was STILL his fault.

Every bilingual immigrant in the US who speaks perfect English with an accent has experienced that Whedon quote.

The man only speaks only one American accented English, but sure, the multilingual person is the one with communication problems.

Yeah…woof. That was like watching a horrible car crash live, but reading it if that makes sense. 

A lot of these MeToo cases are followed up by the abusers in power saying some form of “It’s really bad people felt that way, I am going to use this position of power to make good in the world!”. Weinstein did it too, Louis CK did it as well. I think it’s because abusers like Whedon relish their power, and are…

Does Whedon really think the interview was about fixing his image? The whole thing is just him digging his own grave. It’s almost like did a hit piece on himself, literally attempting a career suicide.

I’m assuming people who HBO wanted to write about it got screeners.  Not sure on anyone else.  Only episode 1 is out widely. 

Yup. Everytime something like this comes up with Allen, I’m always wondering, “Who needed more after he left his wife to marry her adopted daughter?”

Oh man, I wish you would have said there’d be spoilers from episode 2. I only have ep 1 on my feed. I’ll still watch. I don’t mind spoilers as much as some people, but episode 1 was so compelling.

Totally, it shows a pattern. No one would be talking about this if they weren’t still taking Allen’s side.  

It’s not one of his more talked about movies (it’s truly awful,) but he had one that came out in the early aughts called Hollywood Ending where circa-2002 Debra Messing, Tea Leoni and Tiffany Amber Thiessen were all absolutely head over heels for circa-2002 Woody Allen. Technically, only the first two were in love…

The comment about “Woody Allen the steamroller” (as opposed to the public image of Allen as a neurotic) reminds me of how Orson Welles absolutely pegged him for what he always was decades ago.

This. The guy has SHOWN who he is. Ending up with a child you met when she was twelve is the creepiest goddamn thing in the world, and only a creepy creepy creep would be capable of it. That’s even leaving out the fact that he was supposed to be her goddamned father. If someone shows you who they are, believe it.

You know, the thing any rational person would do after being falsely accused of doing such things, make movies clearly about yourself where you come very, very close to doing those creepy things...

I don’t understand how anyone could believe Allen after the business with his stepdaughter.

I have NEVER understood why he is lauded as some genius auteur. I, since I was a child found him repulsive and scary. I couldn’t understand why it was believable that beautiful, very young women would date him in his movies, and why anyone thought that was a story that made sense. In my opinion, the reason why several…

Yeah, all of his films are pretty much, “They can’t get enough of me! Young, old, young, young, younger, whatever... ME, the bespectacled nebbish with attractive characteristics...”

Does the series touch on the fact that Allen tells us repeatedly, in film after film, who he is? How many movies has he made now about a young, barely legal woman getting ensnared by a creepy old man (often played by Allen himself)?