Well, the original TERFs (the ones who were truly “radical feminists”) seemed to be really caught up in this academic point about whether or not the experience of growing up being treated as female was intrinsic to female identity. It’s a point you can kind of see a logic to if you’re arguing in the abstract (kind of…

Wow! That must be it - we went on holiday to Knots Berry farm when I was kid. Cheers for the info!

The way you bolded the names made me think you were claiming that the role of Halle Berry was played by Uma Thurman (problematically) and that Kate Winslet was played by Hugh Jackman (that alone would save any movie).

Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park (just up the road from Knott’s Berry Farm) used to have a pretty impressive Poseidon Adventure ‘set’ - it was from the engine room, you entered and (IIRC) the characters were on a separate catwalk below you just above the water level, entire room “upside down”.

Wes Anderson forces members of his cast and crew to sit in silly little dainty chairs...at gunpoint.

Counterpoint; it’s both mean and funny.

when nobody ever thought about this issue

For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell you’re talking about.

I’m very glad that a PoC will get to say and be the target of all the terrible race jokes on fucking Family Guy.  Big win.

Or Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain.  There is a good reason one of them had to play a blonde in The Help.

Or, hear me out, how about we do literally anything else.

They could keep the existing voice actors and just have an episode where it is revealed that Hibbert, Carl, etc, have actually been white characters shamelessly doing blackface for 31 years.

Interesting that the narrative - for some people - has shifted to “I can understand the Apu issue, but this is a bit too much.” When the debate over Apu first began, both the crew and fans were remarkably dismissive of it. Hindsight is an intriguing thing.

My point wasn’t so much him playing a woman as it was him playing a Hispanic woman, but only mentioning the black character he was stepping back from. Although there has been some noise about different gender voice casting recently, Loren Bouchard got criticized for casting male voice actors in female roles in his new…

Well actually the 486 usually had between 4 to 16 megabites of Ram

i work very low on the totem pole for the buyer at a film distributor and saw this a year ago — lets just say i didnt give it a glowing review, and uh, well, my company isn’t the one releasing it. the vfx look a good deal nicer than before, though.

Will next week quote all the crimes of Elagabalus in elegiacs? And will we then floor peculiarities parabolous in conics?

I can't do that because I end up stopping to watch all of Niles' physical humor. The one where he's trying to iron his pants is the best.

Fraiser is still just so god damned good. I can't think of another hit multi-cam sitcom from my late 80s/early 90s childhood that I like as much or that has aged as well.

No war, except for the reminder that the original idea for DS9 may have been stolen from JMS' B5 documents.  With that being said, both shows are pretty great and have fantastic episodes throughout.