Say what you will, but I thought Fisting Firemen 9 did a great job wrapping up all the hanging plot threads of the previous eight.

Frankly, a lot of the same movies are honored by the Spirits as the Oscar, except limiting it to the cheaper movies. Not the less visible or starring-the-guy-from-the-bowling-alley-and-financed-with-Uncle-Jim's-credit-card movies. Just mainstream cinema with recognizable actors that was made for less money.

It wasn't that it deserved to win.

It certainly would have spiced up that middle section where Carol & Therese were driving cross-country…

What about transpeople playing cispeople?

See, that's the thing: the whiteness (or straightness) of the nominations is the symptom of a larger problem. Acting like the nominations are the problem to be fixed is like taking a Tylenol to lower your fever, when you have a fever because of the infection of the gunshot wound.

Also The Imitation Game, which someone upthread argued didn't count because… reasons?

I read elsewhere it didn't count because one character had heteronormative sex. Which… bi-erasure much?

Yeah, but it doesn't count because one of the lesbians has boy sex. *cough*bi-erasure*cough*

Because Therese was returning to a toxic and doomed relationship and they presented it as if it were a happy ending?

He's having an old friend for dinner….

I liked it a lot, and it's a shame it only got one season.

My main issue with the argument that cis actors shouldn't play trans characters is that it creates an idea that trans actors should ONLY play trans characters. Like, is there a compelling reason why Jamie Clayton or Laverne Cox couldn't play a ciswoman? I would hope not.

He's mansplaining to THE WHOLE PLANET OF MARS. Mars just doesn't GET how much HE UNDERSTANDS.

See, the ending didn't feel "happy" to me. It felt like Therese was falling back into a toxic relationship she was groomed for.

Part of why I had so little investment in their romance is there seemed to be little to no connection between them. I saw mostly this Silent Road Trip From Hell where they just drive without talking.

What I thought was, "Take away the gayness, and this just becomes a movie about an older, moneyed person who abandons spouse and child, then plucks a young, poor person out of their lives to groom them as a lover." Seriously, make this movie "Carl" and people would be talking about what a monster he is.

Hell, I saw both Elizabeth movies, and despite being versed in British history, I barely remember anything beyond Cate In Cool Costumes.

I think that's the fascinating thing about Mary & Anna. Like, Anna is clearly the closest thing Mary has to a best friend, but the power imbalance is always hanging over their dynamic.

See, I would have pegged Baxter to be the Ripley.