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  1. This has a 12% on RT right now. Just to contrast, GI Joe Retaliation has a 29%. It sounds like this is amazingly bad. Which kinda bums me out a bit, since I like Niccol as a director and was hoping he could make something interesting out of this. Though I will probably still enjoy it for it's amazing badness.


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    actually, I thought Russell sounded better than Hugh at certain points. I'm 99% sure he was protooled half to death in post (you can definitely hear it), but Jackman's vibrato was a bit too much sometimes.

     

    The big deal about that film was that everything was supposedly recorded live, so who knows. But I've heard Jackman sing live without any fiddling and he's quite good.


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    I don't disagree with your point, in general, but it's worth remembering that she's 17-18 years old. Her peers on tumblr are furiously shipping characters on Glee or something. At least she's trying. It's just as easy to neglect that stuff, and I'm also speaking from experience.

     

    Fair enough, I wasn't aware of her age.


  4. I think that the blogger in question buries whatever valid criticisms she may have in an avalanche of 'Everything is terrible!'. I'm sure she is well-intentioned, but her overzealousness means she ends up finger-pointing at the wrong things which ends up obscuring her point. I just know from personal experience that it's far too easy to be totally consumed by that stuff and lose some perspective.

     

    And it's for sure a healthy and sensible thing to recognize that things we like have problems.

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  5. Out of curiosity, I searched for the blog Moshe Kasher was talking about, and found him on Your Fave Is Problematic (the person who runs it has another tumblr called Calling Out Bigotry). There's no editorializing or explaining, just a very long list of direct quotes (although, elsewhere, the blogger refers to the special as "vomit-inducingly racist and sexist").

     

    I enjoyed Moshe on this show, but large portions of his standup really are problematic. To start his special, he says, "If you do become offended at any point tonight during the show, we’ve now established that that’s just you being a bitch." I'm tired of this attitude from comedians, and I'm tired of "ironic" (post-ironic, or whatever) offensive humor.

     

    I have no comment on Moshe's routine as I'm not familiar with it, but the Your Fave is Problematic blog is a perfect encapsulation of the Tumblr social justice rabbit hole. That individual has lost all sense of proportion. They say Benedict Cumberbatch is 'problematic' (Oi, I'm so sick of this word I could barf) because he used the phrase 'I'm a tart for it', which the blogger believes to be slut-shaming (even though in context he would be slut-shaming *himself*). They also criticize him for saying 'People go nuts for it', because that is supposedly ableist and mocks people with mental illnesses. They accused Marina Diamandis of wearing blackface in this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_oMD6-6q5Y - when that's clearly not what's going on.

     

    I had a friend that went down this particular rabbit hole (and I very nearly dropped down there myself) and we don't even speak anymore because according to them every word out of everyone's mouth was somehow racist, sexist, ableist, misogynist, transphobic, etc. My point being, I wouldn't use that blog as a reliable gauge of whether someone is actually problematic or not.

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  6. Kukoda is referring to the Ferengi. No, they were not all played by Jewish people (in fact, the first Ferengi we ever see is a played by a Spanish actor). They were introduced in The Next Generation, not the Original Series. Whether or not they are a Jewish stereotype is highly debatable. We do know they were introduced as a critique of capitalism.


  7. This is a 90s teenage culture-defining piece of pop entertainment along the likes of Clueless and My So-Called Life. I LOVE IT!

     

    That said, yes, it would make for a fun episode because the plot is ridiculous and obviously written by people who didn't actually understand how computers work. Plus you get an inexplicable Penn Jilette cameo!

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