It’s a weird idea right off the bat, you’re being trained in self defense to fight off a rapist or kidnapper or something. Of course the average self defense trainer isn’t going to be prepared to fight a professional martial artist. I don’t know what this would prove except to make people look dumb. And not even necessarily the instructors, some expert martial artists trouncing the guy who normally teaches people “keys to the face, stomp your heel on the ankle, run like fuck” the martial artists are going to come off like bullies.

But then all the obsession with Muay Thai. You just wanna see people do Muay Thai. That’s cool, but just suggest that show then. “I like Ong-Bak and also the slightly dumber one with the elephants, I wanna see more of that.”

Why watch either? Its more Star Wars. If you don’t care about Star Wars you will also not care about these shows because they're also Star Wars.

Have I ever? I don’t start a season until the final episode has been released. I know if I started a week early I’d be fine since I wouldn’t get to the final episode until after it aired anyway, but it’s important to me that the data they get showed them I waited.

If you use the word “overrated” you’re claiming there is an objective correct answer. That’s what I’m saying. Something can’t be over or under rated unless there ls an objectively correct answer that people are missing when they rate it.

How can you admit comedy is subjective and still claim something is “overrated” in the same post? If it’s overrated that means there’s an objective correct rating that people should be giving it, but instead they’re rating it too highly. But there’s not “too” anything if we admit that artwork is subjective. You don’t like it as much as many other people but no one is under or over rating it because that’s not possible.

But it’s not retroactive. It’s just active. They actively changed the continuity of the story. They didn’t say “Pete and MJ were never married and that’s always been true” they said “the devil ate their marriage and now it’s never happened.”

I don’t think in-universe characters changing the past counts as a retcon. Was Flashpoint a retcon? When Marty wakes up to discover his parents are happy and successful (and I guess kept Lyon Estates a nice neighborhood somehow) is that a retcon?

The good news is the last season had a flashback to Marge’s high school musical about Y2K that took place before Homer and Marge officially “met” so they couldn’t possibly have been dating in the nineties and that episode has also been retconned.

The truth is neither of those were retcons. Marge and Homer met in high school in the 70s and they on and off dated in the 90s while Homer was in a grunge band (unrelated to the massive success he had as part of a barbershop quartet in the 80s) and also they’re 38 in 2023 and all of these things are somehow true at the same time.

Firefly.

I genuinely do not understand how anyone who enjoyed the first 8 seasons of the Simpsons could think that Armin Tanzanian is anything but hilarious.

And it’s barely a retcon. The only thing we knew about him before Principal and the Pauper that wasn’t true was his name. He’s still the principal that Bart has been screwing with for years, he’s still a Vietnam vet, he’s still strangely subservient to Agnes Skinner, he still a nerd who loves being a principal despite the fact he’s quite bad at it. And even his name stops being fake by the end of the episode, by court order.

I was so confused when they decided to make a show about Castle Rock. Of the imaginary Stephen King cities there’s clearly one that we wanna see more of, and it’s the one where an interdimensional mind spider lived (lives?) and made the whole place just extra haunted and full of excessively shitty inhabitants.

Cliffhangers make a show more likely to be renewed. Everyone wants to be renewed.

If we don’t at least watch each season as it comes out the show will be cancelled before they ever get to end it. I’m not gonna start watching a season until all the episodes are available but I can’t expect them to just make seasons and seasons of television for me without showing them some sort of return.

Arcane is an excellent show, but as someone who never played LoL how much of it is actually an “adaptation”? Does the game somehow explain that Vi and Jinx grew up raised by Vander and then we’re separated and taken in by various factions in the criminal underground, their eventual reunification marred and eventually ruined by the affection Vi has for a pretty young cop lady? Or is it’s like “Vi and Jinx are sisters who hate each other, now fight!”? It’s a hell of a lot easier to “adapt” a game which contains little to no plot (though admittedly the three mortal Kombat movies and a tv show and a weird web series suggests you can still fuck it up even then.)

Stunt people get hurt all the time. That’s what we pay them definitely not enough for.

You also need a way to generate antimatter and then a way to turn the annihilation of matter and antimatter into a useful form of energy. Building a chocolate sundae out of nothing is gonna be pretty energy intensive, you’d probably have to burn an absurd amount of coal or oil to pull it off.

The other ones work “better” right? Like I just wanna go to New York City on October 30th 1929 to buy some stocks, I don’t want my TARDIS to “screw up” and land me in Buffalo on October 29, 1930 so I can stop an alien microbe from taking over the earth. I just want it to go where I tell it. If it’s gonna have it’s own opinions I’m gonna have to go with the Delorean.

The whole point of D&D is making your own stories, so I’m not sure why you’d want a movie at all, but if you’re gonna make a movie I’d sure like it to be about original characters, instead of having to hear about goddamn Drizz’t again.

Inception, but backwards. The parts where we’re expressly told “the characters are dreaming” aren’t very dreamlike, but whenever they supposed to be “awake” terrifying dream bullshit follows them. When the alley gets so narrow he has to squeeze his way out? I’ve had that nightmare.

No the reason to tell me is so that I’m not frustrated by trying to figure out if a time jump happens every time there’s a cut. I explained why there’s a reason to do it.

> Look at how lambasted the witcher was because no one could bother to pay attention and instead blamed the showrunners

There’s absolutely no good reason not to tell me when the timeline switches, though. It doesn’t have to be huge, I don’t need text on the screen or anything, but at least a woosh like on Lost or something. It’s frustrating to have to be like “oh okay which set of people are we following now?” after every cut.

Maybe they mean “if you” instead of “but”. But I guess that’s true for every movie. If your expectations are being water boarded, The Room is a pretty incredible experience in comparison.

“Why do they keep cancelling unpopular shows?” is a frustratingly popular question around these parts when the answer would seem to be self evident. But “why won’t they cancel a popular show?” is a new kind of ridiculous. “The government should make a law forcing networks to cancel popular shows that I personally don’t enjoy.” Fuck you.

It was always fiction though? I don’t understand what the “this is fiction” disclaimer has to do with anything. Yes, it sucks ever since Adam left, he was the heart of the show, without him there’s definitely writers googling “popular thing eighties” and jamming the result into a boring ass spec script they wrote for Boy Meets World or some shit. But even when Adam was weaving actual parts of his life into the plots the plots were still made up super exaggerated stories.

Because he was being a creep. He too agreed with the general consensus that the show was getting kinda shitty, and repetitive and boring, and his solution to being bored was to molest his coworkers. “As a joke.”