I liked it more than I thought I would (granted, the bar was low). There’s a long list of people who had problems working with Shia LaBeouf, but...I think he would have been major improvement.

It’s why Shia LeBeouf left. He knew what was up with that bear suit.

But the problem isn’t race, it’s how Disney soulessly uses wokeness to make a drab product and off it as “progressive.” But at the same token, I don’t really care all that much about it. If a little girl sees this movie and enjoys it because someone like her is a disney princess, then who am I to judge.

So the correct…

Part of me thinks live action remakes are an insult to animators, with even companies who built their foundation on animation continually seeing it as “lesser than” live action, or just as something to eventually adapt into a “real movie”.

The other is very excited to see young, talented, diverse actors giving their…

10% personality. 90% BODY LANGUAGE.

How can we better protect victims, recognitions?

There you are! *pats head*

Great! Tomorrow work on why it’s terrible judgement to use it in this context.

We only pretend to want to allow people back into society if they commit a petty crime. If you’re convicted of shoplifting or even possession of a trivial amount of marijuana, good luck ever getting a job again.

We’re inconsistent. If it is something like robbery, or even murder, we believe people should be punished and then be accepted back into society after “serving their time”. When it is a sexual thing, if it actually gets prosecuted (which it only does in a minority of cases), people get put on “sex offender” lists which…

Today I learned that producing a documentary is comparable to rape.

Oh, this ain’t about viewership, this is about status. The inevitable comparisons, the watercooler hype, and the incessant need for society to take sides. How soon before “Which Show is Better?” articles start popping up? They get it.

Rings of Power makes House Of The Dragon look silly by comparison. They had good reason to worry.

They definitely kept some of the goopy, cartoony violence from the Jackson films, which I appreciated!

Really? I’m not going to pretend to care enough about this to have an opinion about whether it makes sense in the context of the LOTR universe, but who exactly gets to decide what people do and don’t have the right to feel?

Racist and misogynist fans like to launder their racism and misogyny through complaints about “fidelity to the source material.” This has been happening since approximately forever, and it’s always valid to bring that up. But something I really hate in this “let people enjoy things” era is conflating any “negativity”…

“normies” used in the pejorative sense. That’s a pretty good sign there are ulterior motives

“Speaking of Corlys, he, his daughter Laena, and Mysaria are the only nonwhite actors in the entire series so far. Elf-pale Targaryens aside, this show had every opportunity to make its cast more diverse, especially considering how much (justified!) flack Game Of Thrones got for its homogenous central cast.”

Between now and next week, please look up the definition of the word “grooming” and provide a 2000 word essay on what it actually is, why it’s actually bad, and how this wasn’t it. You will be graded on content and presentation.