So a hit piece is only effective when read by humans. This is a first of its kind example, and likely was at least prompted by a human, if not written by an actual human. Additionally while social media is full of bots, it’s humans who are actually affected by such a response.

If I say you’re “stupid”, it matters. You can ignore me sure, but at face value it matters. As far as I know I’ve never commented on a post of yours, so you could write me off as a worthless troll, but in theory it matters. But a bot calling you “stupid”? That really doesn’t matter. If you know you’re talking to a bot, as they exist today, then that really doesn’t matter.

Society may change on this issue, but as it stands now a bot publishing a hit piece… That’s worthless.

Good catch. I could watch those for years to come and be happy.

The only one I thought of was Star Wars Clone Wars. It took a WHILE to become a successful series and even then animation is always in a different category.

Huh, I thought this was going to stay animated, so I’m surprised to see that it’s live action.

The choice to watch episodes in either black and white or color is interesting, but perhaps flawed. I’m no black and white film expert, but my understanding is that a film planned for black and white might use colors that could look odd if shown in color.

I’d prefer specific scenes, or going all in and giving it all a “Sin City” black and white vibe.

But… I’ll judge it when I see it.

It definitely is. Looking around online it seems there is some sort of relationship between having had COVID and developing shingles, but I’m not a doctor.

Doubly surprising is that I didn’t know you could die from shingles directly. If you’re older it can cause major issues and complications, but I didn’t know death was possible.

Sad all around.

The Kelvin timeline has some moments, but I agree that overall they don’t hold up. I gave them all a rewatch last year and apart from spectacle, there isn’t much there.

I haven’t seen the Pee-wee films since I was a kid, but it’s the same character… But everything else is different. So it kinda counts, especially as a spin-off of the show.

It really is impressive that we can have a perfect ending to Breaking Bad, and then a second perfect ending with El Camino.

I also wonder if the streaming movie has a different audience expectation and is more likely to work. Does a theatrical film have too narrow of an audience to be successful? And as such whatever story gets told appeals to no one?

Caught this on Hulu and it definitely isn’t the best film, but with the RT audience reviews currently sitting at 57%, I’d bump it up to an even 60% so it’s certified popcorn or whatever.

I think Emma Mackey and Jamie Lee Curtis are great. I think the backstory and the beginning of the film work well. The husband character was a little all over the place and a little mustache twirly, we could have used an overbearing mother in law, which is hinted at both directly and indirectly with Kumail’s character, I think that could have made that story more believable and contrast well with the “perfect” family idea.

A fine 6/10.

I definitely watched and enjoyed Dead Like Me the series. I definitely watched the film but have no memory of it, except that Mandy Patinkin wasn’t in it. So yeah, it was probably terrible, but I’ve wiped it away.

Huh, apparently there are two series? I’ve never heard of either but now I’m intrigued. Is it a long ongoing story or more monster of the week with some connective moments?

I also think South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut and The Simpsons Movie are both excellent animated films that get to exist alongside their TV series.

South Park is a hilarious film, solid musical, and I’d say they should make more, but the series nowadays are often just films, and Matt & Trey are still making musicals in other media like Team America World Police and Book of Mormon, so they don’t need to just use South Park.

The Simpsons, people love to shit on The Simpsons but the film was excellent and I’m glad we’re getting another one. It was a grand adventure that we don’t get to see the Simpsons family go on, and the adventure was a fun one.

My vote has to be the Star Trek films as the best. Which Star Trek films? So many bad, so many good, but the winner has to be First Contact.

We get our full TNG crew together, fancy new ship, fighting the Borg, time travel, tons of lore, THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE! Just brilliant.

Technically that’s based on the second game, so they’ll have to save that for the sequel.

Why does it have to continue the story of BG3?

Because that’s how the show gets made. Based on my read of the article the intention definitely seems to be a new story set in Faerun. Sure we’ll have some familiar characters pop in from time to time, but it definitely sounds like a new story.

I expect the first season will lean more heavily on the story of characters post BG3, but if it’s successful I could see them traveling the world.

For the longest time that film held my personal title of “Worst film I’ve ever seen”.

It’s three different films shoved together.

A sci-fi comedy, a hard hitting drama, and a conversation about the environment.

Any of those films individually could have worked, but together was just a mess.

I’m surprised, but glad, that at least someone liked it.

So it’s difficult to discuss this show as you’ve only seen the first two episodes and I’ve watched all nine episodes twice.

However even from the first two episodes, I’m not sure you and I watched the same show.

I think it’s fine to wish for a show to be something, but you can’t fault a show for not being something it never tried to be. You can’t watch Shakespeare and complain that it lacked a big car chase scene.

I think you’ve picked up on some of the themes of Pluribus, but you haven’t caught them all, and you may be wrong about others.

For anyone looking for more information, John Oliver delivers. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

The first episode of season 3 was absolutely amazing. It was like a season finale as a season opener. If this is the last project Harrison Ford does I’ll be bummed, but it’s a hell of a high note to go out on. (And if course that could still be several years from now.)

I had no idea about Chance Perdomo. I really enjoyed his performance in season 1, and thought that season 2 had an abrupt start because his character was missing (understandable given that he had passed). Perhaps, in a world where he was cut, season 2 would have had a rough start regardless.

My main issue with season 2 is that it only worked as an in-between season of The Boys season 4 and 5. It was a great in-between, but Gen V setup a great story line for The Boys season 4, but that show just ignored Gen V.

Either Gen V needed lower stakes, or Gen V needed to play a major role in The Boys and The Boys needed to continue that story.

I’m excited for the finale of The Boys, but I’m also excited that once it’s over Gen V will get the freedom to control the larger narrative of the universe.