I remember being upset about things in the finale, even before we knew how Jarecki had edited that voice recording. If only I could find what I wrote back then, oh here it is, in a comment on the review linked in this very article (slightly edited for a little more concision, eight years later):

The problem with talking about Superman killing Zod is you draw attention from people who don’t have a firm grasp on the idea that movies are written by a person who was making choices all the way through.

This is the only Snyderverse film I’ve seen all the way through (his only other movie I’ve seen entirely is 300, which I also dislike), but I think this movie set up a bigger problem apparent in the premises of his later films: he wanted to skip to the parts he thought were cool. And I think Snyder doesn’t think a…

Someone who writes under what I have to assume is the pen-name Demetrius Polychron published a fantasy novel called, ahem, The Fellowship of the King, which he admits is very Tolkien-inspired. He apparently made several attempts to get whichever Tolkien runs the estate now that Christopher is dead to read it, but his…

I loved this show, but the second half of season 3 followed Tumblr GIFsets up its own ass, and every push they made in the direction of these characters being increasingly less subtextual was a betrayal, I felt, of the Will character in particular. The show got it right in the first episode (or one of the first) when…

A thousand years ago on the internet somebody was saying it was stupid to criticize The Social Network for some of its fictionalized plot points; after all, this person said, Citizen Kane isn’t true to the life of William Randolph Hearst, and there is no font on the planet that could capture the feeling I had as I…

I’d counter that discussion of Zep, in particular, is often shadowed by discussions of this stuff (rightly so, given that Jimmy Page “dated” Lori Maddix for several years when she was a young teenager), in my experience, in a way that Bowie’s reputation wasn’t. I wasn’t aware of the allegations against Bowie until a…

My general take with all media is that people understand it’s slanted in some way but have no idea about how. Like, people know reality TV isn’t an unbiased record of exactly what transpired without interference from the producers who aren’t credited as “writers” but ought to be ... but they don’t understand how much…

OTOH, as someone put it today on Twitter today, it REALLY seems like The Rock doesn’t want to lose a fight to Billy Batson, which might be a problem?

I think “Co-Op” is my second-favorite episode. “Waiting for the Artist” is one of my favorite half-hours of anything ever.

Well, if they get to “A Game of You,” no matter what choice they make you’re guaranteed a rousing bit of “is this transphobic?” discourse which will give people a lot of space to say both true and untrue things about how far we’ve come.

The space monsters aren’t from the future (relative to the Comanche, unless all the “maybe there’s time travel” stuff from the piece about the series earlier this week actually means something), they’re just fictional. A story where the Comanche fight European witches would also be not a thing that ever historically…

He doesn’t need it to be in public domain. Weird Al’s work doesn’t violate copyright (because parody is fair use, and he’s obviously parodic), he just prefers not to upset people, since his intention isn’t to actually mock them. The “asking for permission” thing is just him being nice.

I was aware Fludas had this channel (which I stumbled on by accident once), though I didn’t know he’d taken it to this level. He is indeed a jazz drummer by trade - one of the best in Chicago, and he’s one of the most popular calls for pianists or horn players from NYC who play Chicago with a band of locals.

In retrospect it seems to have been a creative miscalculation on Pizzolatto’s part; I wonder if he didn’t realize that in a new medium, people wouldn’t be watching the series through the lens of his established voice as a novelist. He seems to have been surprised that people assumed all the supernatural shadings he…

PLOT DETAILS BUT NOT RESOLUTIONS FROM THE BOOK INCOMING

The dogs are happy and healthy at the end of the novel.

It sounds like the person Critifur is talking about is the company owner, which indeed makes it a situation he probably can’t resolve. And there are many situations where “HR exists to protect the company” translates in an abusive way even if the abuser ISN’T the owner/CEO.

So after Wanda harms other people to create a fantasy where she can be happy and is ultimately persuaded that this is wrong, she’s going to do it again?

Engaging seriously with the negative stories about Scientology inherently brings you into contact with “suppressive persons” and information you’re not supposed to know, and Scientology seems to be very serious about information control not just from the org’s POV, but as a value it instills in its adherents. You’re…