I still don't understand how that franchise works. They have about a dozen locations all in Washington (as far out as Spokane but most of them are around the sound) and then there's a single one in Dubai.

I just looked that up and it's one of the blocks that is now entirely gone. There are a number of more Asian places on the Ave but it seemed like most of them are much more niche/specific, like Sichuan style soup if their sign was any indication.

I forget if it's Seattle or the greater Puget Sound area but it's about a third non-white, and maybe 10-ish percent Asian/Pacific Islander.

I grew up preferring X-men above everything but I've sort of waned on the films and still haven't seen this one. I gleaned/it seems like this one follows the tradition of the last couple where basically all the non-white people (who aren't blue) end up being combinations of evil, useless, or dead.

Speaking of Dick's, do they make their own tartar sauce? There's something uncanny about it which is weird if so since it's probably the exact same ingredients as in the actual burgers.

In Taiwan they have/had "American Taco" since I suppose Latino tastes are essentially unheard of there but it still kind of weirded me out. (Granted I think those may have been Doritos rather than potato chips.)

I was a little convinced that Zhang Ziyi was gonna be in it and I was curious to see how they found an excuse for that and/or if they'd be dealing with migrant labor, but it turns out she's a juror for the reputable films of the festival.

I kept reading it as Roger Rabbit and was incredibly perplexed.

With two Mulans I do wonder if at least one of them is more likely to pick an actually Chinese actress, in which case I would be totally okay if the other one were Chung.

I thought it was nice she included explicitly non-white people in the UK though post-fact it does seem like she's been answering fan questions that flesh out her canon as being inclusive of different religions and orientations but she's been somewhat fuzzy on specifics it seems.

I knew about people totally having awful reactions to Rue but seriously, did people think that there was any chance someone named Cho Chang should have been a white character?

I don't think she's actually the right age for anyone unless they swap the children's genders around? I never did read the sequels so I don't know if any of that actually ends up impacting the story down the line.

I think the show presumably having insurance, a budget, and safety experts probably helps though. Even though these people hypothetically know what they're doing there was that time this show once accidentally sent a cannonball through someone's house a couple hundred meters away and I can imagine how much more…

Coraline at the very very end shows the unraveling dream mice and the rigs used to fold in and out as Coraline is lured to the magic tunnel. I actually forget if Paranorman had one but it seems like a pattern.

Uh, spoiler warning since I don't actually know what that tag is and they're mostly addendum's to the thorough blocked out answers.

I'm still not clear if seitan is the same thing but there are some non-canned fake meats that at least get the texture surprisingly close. (There's one that comes in a tube like polenta or chorizo that I see around in Vietnamese or Chinese groceries sometimes)

The fact they cast Tracy Morgan as a white Cockney (?) bad guy that looks nothing like him yet it works so perfectly… still makes me feel a little perplexed by some of the casting choices in this film even if I vaguely get their premise/defense. (Mostly since I'm utterly convinced that they could have shuffled around…

I'm among those who dug the cover and I thought it actually works really well even though I vaguely recognized the track's existence beforehand.

One thing that really interested me was I was a little surprised by an implication that someone's head was sliced in half but there was some very young child in my audience that was super into the scene in context of the narrative.

I thought that some of the quips actually helped undermine the potential self-seriousness that I sometimes find tedious about films with deliberate messages. Also some of them were definitely more effective than others (there was something very genuine about the lead talking to his dad and not quite buying the premise…