Heavily disagree about Smallville.

Remember when they made this movie with Albert Brooks and Brendan Fraser, only it was about baseball and it was called The Scout?

I think what Simon has that those other guys don’t is the hard journalism background. His projects always feel meticulously researched and have a deep sense of been rooted in a real physical place where he’s been trained to see relationships between vastly different subcultures. His shows cast a wide net and attempt…

At age 65, you don’t need a blow strong enough for a skull fracture to cause a cerebral hemorrhage. If there’s enough acceleration/deceleration of the brain, one of more of the bridging veins that attach the brain to the meninges can tear. These generally have a lot less elasticity once we get older.

Thanx for that insight, never thought of it that way.

I think there’s a huge difference between our experience of the world and a famous model’s, and it’s causing an empathy gap here. I worked as a model for a minute (nothing glamorous, just boring commercial work), and being a model means being treated like a lamp - stylists, photographers, casting agents, etc will say…

I don’t care if she was a [put whatever employment makes you happy here], we can be empathetic for a person that goes in to get a procedure done and is physically scarred for life after.  It doesn’t matter who she was or who she is.  Stop judging people. 

Not me. Me guv’nor gives me a farthing each week an’ a smoked kipper on Thursdees, and that sees me right as rain!

They famously lowballed her in the past. If they’re happy with what they’re getting, good for them, I guess, but this reminds me of Harry Shearer for years trying to rally his Simpsons co-stars to stick together and get a cut of the massive windfall everyone else was making and they wouldn’t go for it. Obviously…

Okay then go away, no one asked for your help.

Weird how you read the blame into the other castmembers’ actions/motivations rather than looking toward the studio that put an insulting price tag on their work in the first place.

He has more of a right to weigh in on issues affecting voice actors than literally anyone in these comments

“If the rest of the cast felt that way, they wouldn’t have agreed to come back.”

This take is reminiscent of those anti-union videos they made us watch at my retail gig. “Advocating for higher wages for everyone is an insult to your fellow workers who are (outwardly, anyway) content to work for less! Why do you have to sow discord in our happy corporate family?”

I don’t think he’s implying that West and Sagal undervalue their work, I think he’s pointing out that the industry underpays voice actors as a whole (which it absolutely does.)

“It’s insulting to suggest your coworkers should be paid more” isn’t a great take

Saying he thinks the entire cast is underpaid is not “speaking for them.” That’s an opinion on industry practices; he’s not directly commenting on the other castmembers’ decisions to sign on (at least not here), and while there is room to infer, it’s still much more inference than implication. Your comment comes…

Sure he does. People take way less than their labor is actually worth all the time, it’s one of the big issues of our time and part of the whole minimum wage conversation. It’s not insulting to say that they should be paid more, it’s insulting that they don’t get paid fair wages from the jump, even if they’re…

Not to mention rich Corinthian leather! And running an island that grants your deepest wish.

Sadly, less Anton Yelchin.