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So you're resorting to a blatant strawman argument here? When I did attack people based on their gender? I don't even know why I'm bothering posting on the Escapist at this point. All the fun people left ages ago.

So, do I have to come up with a label that describes all the people who don't like the Last Jedi? Are all those people the same? Are there only two possible criticisms of TLJ - that there's a purple-haired woman who tells off neo-Han Solo and an Asian woman does stuff?

That reminds me of this article about the Northman. " if the far right doesn’t hate your film, you might be doing something wrong"

The series needed to do two things successfully to really kickstart the story arc. First off establish the backstory that the Dragon was incredibly powerful and went mad and killed a whole bunch of people (like maybe it would have been a good idea showing the prologue that was in the book)...

That cuts both ways though. There's a clear tendency in the media at the minute to silence criticism because these particular critics are alt right or far right or whatever. Don't like the Last Jedi? You're a nazi.

To be honest I am looking forward to the Rings of Power even though I know that realistically it's going to a total car crash.

I watched the Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, a series based on the real life case of a man faking his own death in a canoeing accident to claim the life insurance. On a surface level it's quite a comical concept, but it also captures the tragic side of the story in how this leaves his family...

I have to disagree with there, I thought the first season was pretty poor . And I think there's a clear pattern, from the publicity for the show, to the trailer which barely featured any of the males characters, and finally the series itself, that shows an agenda. The writers wanted to push the...

It's been a long time since I read it but the sixth book definitely felt like that for me. I remember it starts with a recap of the earlier books which seemed to go on for about 200 pages. I heard books 7 to 10 were worse though.

I'll take your word for it, I gave up on the series after reading book 6.

Nobody reads the Wheel of Time books for the female characters. Unless you like braid tugging and incessant bickering.

I mean, all of these franchises clearly have an agenda behind them. The writers don't even hide it any more. Take the Wheel of Time as an example. Every publicity article I read about the Wheel of TIme pushed the series as a feminist fantasy series. It was so bad that the Guardian ended up doing...

She was in the Good Place, and she does some activism. The sort of activism that primarily consists of tweets. So I guess that's going to stop now. Damn you Elon Musk!

Jameela Jamil has quit twitter. https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/26/jameela-jamil-quits-twitter-as-elon-musk-set-to-take-over-site-16535712/ Truly a dark day for mankind.

I'm not going to argue that because that's not my quote!