Star Wars, meanwhile, is America as both empire and rebellion, caught between domination and liberation, shaped by a deep-rooted “great man” myth.

It’s interesting to read Star Trek and Star Wars as two ways America mythologizes itself. Star Trek sits in tension with itself as imagining a utopian future born from Western liberal ideals while also challenging those ideals to actually live up to their promise. While-

but was a crypto scam. tortuga lives!

hmmm sure but 26 weeks straight of Marty is liable to feel a bit like homework after a while not unlike the Kubrick series

RIP to the great tortuga who my St Helenan mum definitely didn't name me after (probably more likely because Jonathan is a common name there because of the tortoise) 🫡🐢

Adam Johnson had a good deleted post about how beyond just the lie that working tirelessly line also offered the administration left-wing cover to ignore the Uncommitted movement at a time their leverage had been strongest. It really cannot be undersold how disastrous it was on a consequential level

I've actually reached the boring stage where I think Bale as Bruce Wayne as the best Batman performance ever should be taken as a given (despite his Batman voice kinda sucking) & the only non-contrarian opinion is preferring Conroy if you stretch to include animation

*Me meeting this infamous pain in the ass character every ER fan hates* that's pookie

if you were playing devil's advocate you might concede the most straight allegorical ST episodes (Far Beyond The Stars aside) are rarely the best but even then stuff like Measure of A Man (mostly an ethical quandary) refers to real-world slavery in an extremely direct way. It's all political man

Batman rankings post rewatch: 1. The Dark Knight Rises 2. The Dark Knight 3. Batman Begins 4. The Batman 5. Batman Returns 6. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (I like the best TAS episodes more tbf) 7. Batman Forever 8. Batman & Robin 9. Batman 10. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

It being so close probably means Marty wins comfortably though as all the disgruntled Wes fans vote for him..

Erm actually it's not apartheid because Israel disclaims any responsibility for the non Jewish people it has control over in every single way— please don't look up what the white regime in South Africa did btw ☝🏽🤓

NW (with no Andor): filling in some blind spots in the hope I finally drive myself insane

wouldn't mind a Wes or Marty series but getting the original Pelham 123 on Patreon might be the gamebreaker lol

your grandparents voting for reagan

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I think this is partly the reason why Reese had such a difficult time writing the sequel: how do you write a Batman movie when Batman himself realizes being Batman is not really working.

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the moment FAM decided introduce its tech CEO character as "hmmm, this guy is sort of empathetic and at worst ambiguous" in the current environment is when I should have know the writing was on the wall

station eleven never got the appreciation it deserves but it is NOT! TOO! LATE!

Ryan is a secret Station Eleven fan hell yeh

me: but what I love most of all is when the chosen king regains their throne & then gets burnt to a crisp for being a lousy Jacobite Perkin Warbeck ass

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

look man Carrie Coon in The Leftovers is an alltimer performance

The new Harry Potter series looks polished, earnest, and overwhelmingly unneeded. I wish the children in it an easy and early escape and every adult involved a reckoning with the choice they made.

I like how much DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN is about ICE.

I wrote about the second season of DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN. It takes a bit to get there, but the ultimate payoff is dynamite. Also I love Michael Gandolfini in this.

Daredevil: Born Again s2 has better fight scenes and (eventually) brings back Jessica Jones, but it's still saddled with a lot of plots and characters set up by the fired s1 showrunners. My review:

I enjoyed the new season of DAREDEVIL. I don't think it really blazes any new path, narratively, but everyone's doing the thing.

JJ Abrams probably could have just made DUEL OF THE FATES and stuck the landing for an uneven trilogy. DotF is flawed, to be sure, but it's also, you know, not an anti-movie like RoS is

As usual, Duel of the Fates was not necessarily a *good* conclusion to the sequel trilogy but it was at least recognisably *a* conclusion to the sequel trilogy

Yeah, very obviously The Last Jedi envisages a time skip, and one big hint as to that is that Duel of the Fates...has one.

Also, the ideal magic school TV show exists. It is called The Magicians, it's an extremely loose adaptation of a (very good) trilogy, and it rules. Just watch that instead!

yeh he follows through on Ned's plea without question and then faces down an entire Lannister troop rather than give up Gendry. there's your goddamn characterisation

This thing has "debuts huge, does well in Season 1, slowly tapers off after that, becomes unprofitable in Season 3 or 4" written all over it.

I would rate the chances of Dems winning a trifecta in 2029 and frittering it away on tax cuts and penny-ante affordability stuff as "distressingly plausible." not guaranteed, but definitely the status quo path

yay we get up to the 2020s 🙂 (now just need the 2050s epilogue with the Not!United Federation of Planets getting formed)

the second best MCU show, well deserved

still very real and very true

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patient zero of current Twitter Blue Checks

Chuck Norris jokes were the first memes that people who weren't funny could join in on. A true harbinger.

The ‘We Will Rock You’ scene that near opens ‘A Knight’s Tale’ goes so hard it’s a renewed joy each time I watch the greatest medievalist movie of all ages

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ok so my takeaway first and foremost from this is that Kat would have won if her opponent hadn't been the popular mayor of a meaningful part of the core left base in the district

They are (predictably) doing a dementia storyline 😔