Every successful remake/adaptation/etc. I’ve seen has a weirdly specific take on the source material. Which is a risk, sure, but are any of these franchises putting butts in the seat on name recognition alone anymore? Mass markets may not be sophisticated, but no one wants to be bored.

Not a single franchise pictured here where the “super fan” advice wouldn’t just be “fewer women and black people”

And far fewer trench coats than I was expecting, tbh

There’s a lot to unpack in terms of predation & perversion but I also think there’s a thread here to Cornell of the general acceptance of schools as proto-carceral environments. (And, actually, in both contexts predatory perversion and punishment go hand in hand.)

“We’re keeping a list.” Genuine McCarthyism.

So disingenuous to conflate the specific argument about fact-checking debates w/ like your aunt’s FB posts about “lyin’ Donald.” Not being able to lie incessantly actually DID hinder Trump’s debate performance; Vance was “smooth” and “confident”…except when he got flustered about being fact-checked.

Artificial Intelligence won’t see your posts but people named“Al” will and briefly think a stranger hates them.

7 yo watched part of the debate and asked why Vance wants to “build a wall”. Luckily, we’d just seen an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch where the mean cheerleader joins the science club then tries to keep a bunch of people out.

I sought out your review of this episode over the weekend because this episode got under my skin so much. Many shows get at media circus and criminal injustice, but I don’t think anyone’s done a better job of contrasting the complexity of truth w/ the system’s utter indifference to it.

Also, the first question out the gate used preemptive strike against another country as a litmus test for supporting Israel—not, say, “How do we end the conflict?”