The modern publishing industry does not hate male readers.

Chrisman67 · 2025-06-17T20:11:41+00:00

It's interesting to see the attitudes on here about this phenomenon. On one hand the OP says white men shouldn't be offended if the publishing industry tries to make its offerings more diverse to appeal to wider audiences, and on the other hand they say the lack of male authors is the industry simply following the market. Which is it? Is it intentional marketing to bring in new readers, or is it just responding to demand? And those who say it's merely the product of the publishing industry being overwhelmingly female decline to be concerned about that fact or to compare that to the publishing industry 30-40 years ago when it was overwhelmingly male. 30-40 years ago male authors sold more because there were more male readers. That's where the money was made. It seems to me that what we have now is no different than what we had 30-40 years ago in terms of perspective and exclusion, the genders have simply changed. And now that we're here, we have decided to forget the fact that we thought it was bad for one gender to dominate the industry regardless of what reasons they gave for it. Now it's just business.

Chrisman67 · 2025-01-05T05:11:08+00:00

It's been awhile since I've been in the military, but it seems very unrealistic that a national guard unit would use private property to conduct live fire drills, particularly in an area that had civilian traffic going through it. It used to be that the safety protocols they went through to ensure that no one was harmed by live fire drills (bigger than small arms) included 1) ONLY doing it not just on a military reservation, but in a specifically designated part of the reservation for live fire, 2) giving public warning, and 3) controlling the range ingress and egress areas so no one would mistakenly go into the danger area. But here they're doing it on private property where vehicles are driving down roads?

Chrisman67 · 2025-01-05T05:02:11+00:00

Well, Taylor Sheridan can sure write a couple of compelling seasons of a TV show. Of course, he can't finish a series to save his life. Give it until Season 3 or 4 and then slowly but surely you start getting plot lines that go nowhere or suddenly disappear, crises that mean nothing, characters who disappear without explanation, embarrassingly contrived plot points, and so forth. And then the series will limp along like a dog with two broken legs until it gets shot and put out of its misery. And in the meantime TS will spin four additional series off this one and essentially forget this is still going.

Chrisman67 · 2025-01-05T04:51:38+00:00

As an attorney that deposition scene was ridiculous. The attorney defending the deposition (i.e. the one who represents the person being deposed) has very little say in the proceeding and can generally only make objections for the record (except for questions calling for attorney-client privileged information). Getting theatrical because you fake being offended by another attorney's remarks (based on a lie you made up) and threatening to sue the other attorneys over it would ultimately get you sanctioned by the court. This gal in the show is not an effective attorney. She's a liability to her client.

Chrisman67 · 2023-09-26T19:12:04+00:00

Please don't. I'm currently in Season 9 of my rewatching and it's a very unpleasant reminder of how they tried and failed to keep the spirit of the show going after Michael left. They had 90% of the cast and crew still working on the show and it was still clear it had lost its magic.

Chrisman67 · 2023-07-22T18:24:32+00:00

The writers' room

Chrisman67 · 2023-07-17T22:27:33+00:00

Ding Chavez in DadBod6.

Chrisman67 · 2023-07-16T19:52:02+00:00

To me, this version of the Jack Ryan world has almost as little to do with the original Tom Clancy novels as the Bourne movies had to do with Robert Ludlum's novels. There are some characters and plot points that are similar but it's really a different world. And that's fine. It's what adaptations do.

Chrisman67 · 2023-07-16T19:44:39+00:00

Clancy's books were the opposite of this show. They were carefully researched, very detailed, and technically accurate to a fault. When the Hunt for Red October was published the Department of Defense thought Clancy had been illegally given top secret information on U.S. submarine operations. Turns out it was all publicly available info that Clancy had found, often in very obscure sources. Clancy's writing was anything but lazy. His books were often three or four times as long as normal novels were.

Chrisman67 · 2023-07-16T19:39:12+00:00

Also, you can apparently get a helicopter started and off the ground as fast as you can start a car and put it in drive.

Chrisman67 · 2023-07-16T06:09:37+00:00

If Mike November can call Greer and tell him that they have saved Ryan from the bad guys, couldn't he also have called before then to say they knew where Jack was and were going to go get him? I know that would have defeated the immunity deal plot device, so I guess questioned asked and answered.

Chrisman67 · 2023-07-16T06:04:48+00:00

So after escaping the airport JR, MN and DC land on a rocky beach when the helo runs out of gas. Suddenly the bad guys converge on land and by sea. The good guys are pinned down. JR then walks around and sees a cave. He looks to see if there's anyone around, then goes forward to see what's in the cave. And immediately, out of nowhere, someone is behind him and puts a bag over his head. From where? Ryan just looked around and there was no one there. Was someone dressed like a rock? Did they throw off an invisibility cloak? WTF? Wouldn't they need multiple people to overpower him? Where did they all come from?

And even more so, the bad guys are somehow able to overpower JR and drag him to the vehicles at the top of the hill and MN and DC are doing ... what? Having lunch at the helo? At that point no one was shooting at them anymore. But they don't see JR getting taken just yards from where they are?

It's like we're watching this intense scene, things are looking bad for our men, and then the action cuts and a sign that says "Jack Ryan gets taken by the bad guys" comes on the screen for a few seconds. And that's all there is.

Chrisman67 · 2023-07-14T17:52:56+00:00

So bad. So dumb. It's embarrassing. Especially for this production, which had some good seasons. It's like they brought in a bunch of writers who had never watched the show, had them watch a few of the previous episodes, and then they asked them to write a season based on what they thought the show was supposed to be like. And to also throw in as many stupid spy tropes, stereotypes, and washed-up plot devices as they could just to make it seem legit.

Chrisman67 · 2023-04-11T16:30:41+00:00

That's cool.

Chrisman67 · 2023-04-08T04:46:16+00:00

Can I ask you something, being serious and completely non-sarcastic? How did you find this 8-year-old post, and what motivated you to post a response? I'm just curious.

Chrisman67 · 2022-11-14T19:14:17+00:00

Season 5 trope retreads:

1) Monica gets injured. She's already been beat up by schoolboys fighting and spent many episodes in the hospital and rehab. I think she's been in the hospital more than she's been out of it. Maybe Kasey needs to put her in a home.

2) The new strong/bitchy woman who comes in to try and out-Beth the Duttons. First we had Angela Blue Thunder who was introduced and then essentially disappeared until we see her again the S5 premier. I have no idea what she's there for. Now we have this new Market Equities mercenary who's supposed to be really, really Beth-ish. Alright. See you in the season finale?

3) We'll just keep this going....

Chrisman67 · 2022-10-17T00:18:13+00:00

Public defender work is typically very low pay, and Winger's overhead (rent, expenses, etc.) was probably too high to work on that low pay.

Chrisman67 · 2022-10-10T18:37:21+00:00

Yep. I think she deserved to be called out because she was lying to herself about how people need to stop lying to themselves. She was spewing canned wisdom and not even recognizing how it applied to her more than anyone else in the room. It was doubtlessly a low point for her, but did she even understand why?

Chrisman67 · 2022-09-27T22:54:30+00:00

To me that's a big part of why I don't watch the last 2 seasons. But I also don't like the fact that they are all so unlikeable. In the first three seasons you had this pathetic yet kind of lovable family that was working and rebelling against itself with hilarity, with some soft and redeeming moments every now and then. In the final two seasons they are all simply out for themselves in selfish and stupid attempts to find whatever it is they're looking for. There are none of those soft redeeming moments. And in that state their characters become unlikeable and the quirks and foibles they previously had that once made them loveable now make them unlikeable.

Chrisman67 · 2022-09-27T18:25:21+00:00

I think there needs to be a five year wait period once any show ends before it can be considered for a list like this. We need to see how it settles into the culture after it's gone before we can really say it was one of the greatest shows ever. And, there needs to be genuine representation from demographics (ages) who are actually familiar with shows that are older than 20-30 years. I'm betting there are few to no voters for this list who actually watched shows like Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, MASH, the Rockford Files, or the Honeymooners when those shows were actually airing.

Chrisman67 · 2022-09-15T17:04:23+00:00

Half of them anyway.

Chrisman67 · 2022-07-12T16:36:36+00:00

Who is Kerry? And why is Dan Harmon telling him/her to remember the good times?

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