That’s a very punk thing of them to do.

Using aspect ratio as a plot device is actually pretty great.

Make Amalgam movies, you cowards.

I agree Belafonte’s episode should be included and that the final piece is the best the show ever did. This list, not wrongly, emphasizes the bedlam and insanity that made the Muppets so great. But it neglects those moments where the show used the medium to create something ethereal and unearthly. Qualities that…

Here’s an AV Club illustrated essay on the subject from a few years ago that I always enjoyed:

I despised Caillou so badly whenever my kid watched it; from the terrible character models, to the grating art palette, to (of course) Caillou himself. But it’s a testament to nostalgia that now that my daughter is 11, I feel kind of sentimental for the show.

Caillou is French for ‘pebble’, hence the kid’s smooth, stone-like head. It’s just a Charlie Brown-style visual abstraction. The show is based off of a series of books by a French-Canadian author which were, while banal and too-cute, not nearly as terrible as the cartoon show.

So then pick a lane. If yer gonna address the one, then don’t bother with the other. “Racism is bad, and so is the cut on that blouse!”

It’s just so interesting how camp expanded and evolved so much since ‘66, that you can’t just say you’re making it under the camp banner and have it work.

The way you minimize transphobia, corporate carelessness of their employees lives, and sexual assault by placing them alongside a fine/forgettable recurring joke from a television show is really something.

I feel the same way. It felt like a curative after such a brutal year. Clarke being able to shift from something as lore and detail-heavy as Strange and Norrell to something deeply empathetic as this just reaffirmed how impressed I am with her writing.

I’m playing Fallen Order right now, and by the sound of it, in about the same place you are. After initially being excited by the general positive tone of the game, to then being beffudled by the creative decision to use slides as a major game play mechanic, I’ve settled into feeling this is almost an archetypal…

My wife and I rewatch all three Ocean’s movies with startling regularity. They are both weighted-blanket comfort viewing and clever, attentive films. It’s the best of both worlds.

Better Maul Saul

Yeah, the protagonists truly did find the least efficient method to use their immortality to help people.

I started off cold with this movie, but significantly warmed up to it by the end. It’s the perfect b-movie - smart enough to not get in the way of the stupidity. Sure, the final thesis that violence is necessary to promote peace is the same kind of pretzel logic in service of making a questionable, but rad narrative…

This is true.

Thank you, and that’s fair. I’m always happy to know people are still striving towards the angels (aliens?) of our better natures. But these last four years have been such a brutal experience, my empathy for willful ignorance has been greatly depleted.

Thank you, and that’s fair. I’m always happy to know people are still striving towards the angels (aliens?) of our better natures. But these last four years have been such a brutal experience, my empathy for willful ignorance has been greatly depleted.

So the thing about mocking flat earthers. I was watching a couple of clips from the web show “All Gas and No Brakes”, where the host goes into all sorts of esoteric groups and interviews the members.