Ghostbusters 2016 was bad, but at least it was bad in a “swing for the fences and strike out” sort of way. At least it tried to do something relatively new with the concept.

“That’s longer than Phineas and Ferb’s four-year summer vacation.”

Actually, forget every season, every EPISODE should end that way, just in case the head writer or main actor are struck by lightning before they can make more. TV should never take risks or try out new ideas, it’s irresponsible!

We know that the show was highly popular in its first season. I don’t think Max released numbers for season two, though, but given WB’s habit of killing everything that isn’t Game of Thrones-related these days, that may not say anything negative about its numbers.

Wrong.

Season orders get revoked and studios break their word. Until the show is literally on the air, there are no guarantees. So you may as well just write the story you want to write and hope for the best.

The books’ popularity has dropped off significantly, but they still sell better than most other book series. It’s no longer this massive cultural phenomenon, but it’s still popular enough to milk for a bit of extra money. But it feels like it peaked quite a while ago and the kids who are reading it now are doing so…

Yeah, but Harry Potter DID end, though. All we’ve gotten since then are a bunch of terrible prequels. Which makes the whole thing even more pathetic. It doesn’t even have a *narrative* reason to keep going.

People don’t worship Rowling because of her mediocre writing, they worship her because she’s a raging bigot and that makes them feel validated about hating the same people she does. It’s similar to why so many people adore Donald Trump.

That’s the gist of it, yeah. But it also means you can use whatever combination of those you want when talking to them.

Everyone has pronouns, including you. Relax.

Jon does do the call and response thing often enough, though. But I think in this case he would have looked hypocritical if he’d let the boos go on, since his thesis was that Democrats can beat Trump, but they need to do it with an actual presidential campaign, not by throwing him off the ballot.

To be fair, the people who voted for Trump also claim to hate Hollywood and also want different movies. It’s just that they movies they want to see are either about Jesus, or about a muscular white guy who beats up foreigners.

Sure, just like there were people drooling over those stupid NFT cartoons a couple of years ago. Doesn’t mean they’ll ever appeal to normal people.

Today in forced snark:

Any subtitle he gave it would make it seem like a sequel, and they’ve been pretty clear that it’s not that. So giving it the most simple title possible is a smart choice.

Gunn has actually been pretty adamant that he is not doing an origin story, on the grounds that everyone knows that story already.

Rocksteady built the Arkham games around the idea of Batman. How does he fight, how does he operate, what’s his arsenal, his go-to strategies? They started with the character and built the gameplay around that.