If you read the thread on Whedonesque, the owner says she had been looking for an out for a while, tired of upkeep and having hosting issues etc. It's certainly tied into the message from Whedon's wife, but I think that was just the final nail in the coffin of diminishing passion and interest.

Yeah, part of what made Skylab so fun in the movie was that it was this weird, almost subplot off to the side, not involving most of our main characters, who remained preoccupied with their dumb camp bullshit. I'm not crazy about making "CRAZY THING IS GOING TO DESTROY THE CAMP!" the central story.

That and the "10 MILLION DOLLARS" written on a full sheet of printer paper were the biggest laughs of the series for me. I'll think of them often.

There's a bill being floated that requires congressional approval for first strike. It will never ever pass, but it seems the most sane way — pres still retains ability to retaliate quickly if necessary, but needs approval if he's going to fucking start a nuclear war.

Autoplays even when you open another Newswire and don't expand this one. Took me like 10 minutes to find wtf this was coming from.

Friday Night Lights and the first two seasons of Buffy, as well. Both of whose visual styles I love.

"Maybe it's just cause I'm a huge Slings & Arrows fan and I have a bias, but I liked the Lenny Bruce stuff."

Sure, but that argument would apply to any movie adapted from an Asian property — the original characters were from [country], so why not make the leads [country]-American to match?

Same. If it's explicitly Tokyo then the argument makes a little more sense to me, though it also wouldn't be the first cyberpunk property to use Japan as a backdrop (not necessarily an excuse — I definitely feel less comfortable with that version of things).

Yeah, the quick version of my argument can sound like "and the only asian people are foreigners" which isn't my point at all — just that Ghost in the Shell is not any more indicative of the race issues in Hollywood than every other film in Hollywood, (eta: nearly) all of which severely underrepresent nonwhite groups.

Same — this is the American adaptation of a Japanese film. Nobody is upset that white people took the main roles in the Shall We Dance? remake. I genuinely don't understand how this is any different from that (or the many other foreign films that have been remade into American pieces).

Yeah, this is fucked up — and not just on AVC's part. A bunch of ostensibly liberal-minded places are reporting this like "OH WHAT A BONER they accidentally let some guy who was imprisoned for a minor offense and then served his time and even became religious while in prison ON TV WHERE HE WAS CHARMING"

I think there's a great argument for In Dubious Battle being the ideal Steinbeck to adapt right now, but boy, what a shame this is how it turned out.

IN THEIR DEFENSE (cue tiny violin):

I think it's worse when there's less dialogue — try sitting through Amour when the first half-hour you're surrounded by "munch munch munch crunch munch"

And again, it's this weird double-standard: it's bad that Hamilton is hard to see because… a lot of people like it? Where the fuck are the Book of Mormon thinkpieces? The Shuffle Along thinkpieces?

Yeah, I got this set and accoutrements for my birthday last October. It was the BluRay, though… maybe it was never released on DVD??

Agreed. Marty was the "nice guy" archetype to a T.

*after the first e. coli reports*

I was similarly underwhelmed by this. I'm on most of the major services but don't post photos or anything — just something to browse when I'm bored. I dunno, this episode felt like the parody of Black Mirror to me: "have u considered maybe it would be BAD if we used our phones to rate each other!?"