So bring liberal now means being pro-censorship?

I love Pacific Rim!  It is the poster child for stupid fun movies.  If you think about it to hard or are looking for something thought provoking or original then you will be disappointed.   If you go into wanting to see giant robots fighting giant monsters,  its delivers. 

True, but one difference is that the Hardy Boys were always corporate works for hire ghostwritten for years by a man who reportedly hated the characters and then by a succession of hacks, whereas Dahl’s works were the creation of a singular author and reflect his unique personality.

I don’t like the idea of editing books without the author’s permission, but there is some precedent for this — in his own lifetime, Dahl revised the Oompa-Loompas from being African pygmies to more generic fantasy tribal people (perhaps still problematic but less so).

I understand the desire to update these stories so a new generation of kids aren’t reading about harmful stereotypes, but editing a dead author’s work is extremely gross and sets a terrible precedent. I don’t need “updated language” when I read an older book. Erasing the sins of the past is also a good way to avoid…

There are so many delicious Mexican pastries, it’s a fucking crime to have the technical be tacos. Plus, you can’t make tres leches cake without letting it soak up the milk overnight (or at least a good long while). That’s why the cakes were dry, Paul, you ignorant shit! Even without the cheesy jokes and sombreros,…

Remember when Giuseppe won German Week by making a panettone..

It’s kinda in the show’s DNA to flub a country-specific theme of the week, so the Mexican week was pretty much what you’d expect by this point, but time and time and time again this past season the time constraints ruined the challenges. If Paul is telling every contestant that their dough didn’t proof long enough or…

The best part of that challenge was Paul repeatedly confusing the words “taco” and “tortilla.” Really did your research there, buddy.

For me it wasn’t the cultural insensitivity of the costumes, it was 1) the lack of actual research into Mexican baking/pastry, which goes deeper than tortillas and conchas, and 2) the technical challenge being a cooking challenge. The topping proportions on those tacos were nuts, too.

Okay. Let’s take these in order.

You seem on edge, necg“Ray”. Investigation not going how you wanted?

Yup, and if you go back and look at old interviews with SMG’s colleagues during the early seasons, the one thing they all say is how incredibly impressed they were by her work ethic and her efforts to make the show as good as it could be. Granted, a lot of them were pretty new to acting, but even Tony Head talks about…

People keep bringing up the charisma thing..

Has anybody asked the casts of Avengers, Firefly, Buffy, if Whedon is a horrible person? They all seem to like working for him repeatedly, including on vanity projects like his Shakespeare movie.

There are hundreds of talk show visits by actors who discuss how their “huge” part in some movie got completely cut and they didn’t find out about it until much later, sometimes the premiere of the movie itself. Acting in a scene and having that scene filmed is not some kind of magic contract that ensures that scene…

Im definetly not suggesting that Sophia Crawfords work was negligible, as I said just about everytime they cut to a wide shot it is very clear that it’s not SMG doing the stunt work. I’m not arguing SMG did most of her own stunts, she clearly didnt. I just said Jeff Pruitt went to far in the other direction suggesting…

In the end it turned out the stunt guy and his now wife was harassing smg...she has since backed up this claim

The other side of this is Pruitt seemed to really dimish the stunt work that SMG did do. In interviews hes said she barely did anything, made fun of how she runs and questioned if she had ever had martial arts training like she claimed.

He really doesn’t seem mentally well.