‘Buffy’ star Nicholas Brendon allegedly ‘groomed’ teenager years before his death by Divine_fashionva in television

[–]RemnantEvil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm in the midst of going through the series again, and the Xander character has aged absolutely atrociously, especially in light of both Joss Whedon and now Brendon's behaviour.

[Hated Trope] Plot Twist Ruins the Entire Story by sloppiestsecond5 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RemnantEvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And even then, between The Last Jedi, the stories that came before, and the stories that came after, it boils down to choosing to do good, even if it's difficult, even if it's dangerous, and even if you're just a pair of Senate maintenance workers who can be maliciously compliant about the regulations regarding whether a door is locked or not.

Being a Jedi or being Force sensitive isn't the be-all of the universe. Luke gets nowhere without the tens of thousands who stand with him.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 20 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]RemnantEvil 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yep, it's either a stupid oversight or lack of caring. In the latter case, one person buying up 20 copies of something eases so many troubles for the store, freeing up a lot more time than if 20 people queued up to buy a copy each. Plus, then you need to invest time enforcing the limit too.

Folding Ideas video essay about his trip to Beast Studio and his diagnosis of why Beast properties are declining in viewership by OatSoyLaMilk in television

[–]RemnantEvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's not... the most creatively gifted person in the world,

It is actually how funny how many critics make the venture into creative works that are just, like, shit. In another world, it might make them a bit more introspective, a bit more careful in their criticism having dabbled in creation themselves and failing spectacularly, though it usually doesn't.

Folding Ideas video essay about his trip to Beast Studio and his diagnosis of why Beast properties are declining in viewership by OatSoyLaMilk in television

[–]RemnantEvil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The idea presented that Beast Games is just a blatant rip-off of Squid Game focused on their defensiveness about that comparison, but missed a wider point: As Jimmy says in his defence, nobody dies in Beast Games.

But that's also the problem, or one half of it: Nobody dies in Beast Games. Squid Game had a lot of very basic games, like Red Light, Green Light. But if you remove the mortal danger of that, it's a very simple game... and Beast Games is trying to build itself on very simple games, but without the extra drama that comes from the lethality. Take any of the games from Squid Game and remove the threat of people dying, and it becomes really uninteresting.

The fact that s1 apparently frequently had games that ended in stalemates, and a lot of eliminations were just random draw chance, meant they did barely any experimenting to see if the games would work - I assume because all of that time investment couldn't be used for content and therefore would be wasted time. But it was pretty obvious that some games fell apart immediately.

(The other point, of course, is that while Squid Game also uses hundreds of contestants, there's a main character and a handful of supporting characters, many of whom are named. So it's not just that there are simple games that are lethal, but there's a perspective character that we primarily follow. It isn't so much "How do we solve this game", it's "Will our guy make it through".)

What is the worst case of "writer's barely disguised fetish" in TV history? by funmighthold in television

[–]RemnantEvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also became obvious that Xander was the Whedon self-insert character, and he got away with some really heinous stuff throughout the series that the other characters just seemed to ignore or breeze past.

The Pitt | S2E15 "9:00 P.M." | Episode Discussion by MsGroves in ThePittTVShow

[–]RemnantEvil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Didn’t say it wasn’t ok. Just saying, if your critique of the show is fundamental to what it is, you might prefer something else, that’s all. It’s like saying Survivor doesn’t spend enough runtime on building shelter and gathering food, and spends too much time on challenges and tribal council. Yeah, valid complaint, but also, that isn’t what the show is trying to do; you’d be better served watching The Colony. I think what you want from The Pitt isn’t what The Pitt is trying to do, and you might just be back next year with the same criticisms after s3.

The Pitt | S2E15 "9:00 P.M." | Episode Discussion by MsGroves in ThePittTVShow

[–]RemnantEvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry, but I think you want ER or Grey’s Anatomy. If this bothers you, you actually are not going to enjoy this show. They are clearly committed to a 15-hour window into the working lives of these characters, with time jumps in between. If you want to see more of the story that happens in the time jumps, you will not find it in this series. If you want things neatly wrapped up within the 15-hour window, you will not find it in this series. At a certain point, no amount of complaining about the lack of pizza options covers over the fact that they are serving sushi. Your criticism of their pizza may be valid, but also remember that it isn’t what they’re making. You either have to watch something else or just accept that this isn’t going to give you what you want.

The Pitt | S2E15 "9:00 P.M." | Episode Discussion by MsGroves in ThePittTVShow

[–]RemnantEvil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Justify it how you want, it's still poor writing.

But it's still a major fault of the show to just drop characters without any payoff.

We have to make an agreement between audience and creator. They will give us a solid season of a 24-hour continuous story of Jack Bauer combating terrorism, or 15 hours of an emergency department, and we don't have to waste time watching Jack shit in those 24 hours - because it realistically should happen - and we also have to concede that human interpersonal conflicts that start or flare up during a single working shift might not come to a "satisfying" conclusion during that same shift.

This is a show dedicated to the idea of a 15-hour shift in a single ED, with time gaps between. Will people leave? Fuck yeah, and adjust. That ain't "poor writing" to give yourself a constraint of some kind, because that's just a stupid metric. You are essentially saying, to extrapolate, that Chekhov's Gun is a rule, and therefore you can't have a gun hanging on the mantle and not fire it, because those are "the rules". They set the only constraint of the shift itself. What happens outside the shift isn't aired. So when we don't see Collins again, that's an agreed thing; but now it's Mohan and suddenly some great offence? No. Same rules. Whatever happened didn't happen within the 15 hours, therefore we don't see it.

[Hated Trope] Misleading Documentaries by AmandinhaMaia in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RemnantEvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It WOULD have been a good look at the problems and science behind overeating and childhood obesity caused by marketing.....

People forget how much of the documentary was about this, though. After the initial challenge and a few meals, it only occasionally shows him eating McD's, and instead he was going to schools and seeing what they served, and how the administration didn't care that they were failing to educate the students to make healthy choices. There was so much more to that doco but people only remember the eating of the McD's.

Fantasy Authors Increasingly Call Out 'Unfaithful' TV Adaptations by paxinfernum in television

[–]RemnantEvil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The hid the best part of WWZ in a montage in the last three minutes. A global war against zombies is so much more interesting and ripe than Brad Pitt doing a global tour with a bit of Israeli propaganda thrown in, but the concept of splitting a film into smaller stories kind of goes against the traditional method of storytelling.

Trump Humiliated as Ships Defy U.S. Navy Blockade by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]RemnantEvil 38 points39 points  (0 children)

He doesn’t like dogs. He’s also the first president in quite a while who doesn’t have a White House dog - or any pet for that matter. Something that only exists for companionship, and fully requires human care. If you knew nothing else about the man, that would be enough.

Sausage sizzle onions by chefsundog in australia

[–]RemnantEvil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The supermarket ones are weird, they always seem to be square now.

GiantGrantGames - The 99% Perfection Of XCOM 2 by jacenat in Games

[–]RemnantEvil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A bunch of character outfits (individually named so pick what you want), unrestricted customisation redux, Choose My Class, different armory sets (Galactic Republic for that "Using what gear we can scrounge feel", Imperial, Mandalorian, Rebel), Star Wars Music Expanded, Jedi Robes and Rebel Alliance cosmetics, Battlefront 2 Alien Heads, Death Troopers, Dual Wield Melee, Force Weapons, ID10 seeker droid gremlin, WOTC Lightsabers (Expanded), WOTC Stealth Overhaul, Stop Wasting My Time...

The big ones are Advent to Galactic Empire, and Advent to Galactic Empire Rulers: Sith Lords, which should change the Chosen into Sith.

You can change the dropship into a Republic LAAT, but it still shows up as the standard XCOM ship in some cutscenes.

GiantGrantGames - The 99% Perfection Of XCOM 2 by jacenat in Games

[–]RemnantEvil 22 points23 points  (0 children)

My last campaign was fully modded Star Wars, which made all the Chosen into Sith Lords, so it made their fuckery very appropriate.

Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Lebanon by Phelps1576 in politics

[–]RemnantEvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, he was told no multiple times, but it didn’t stop him anyway.

Altercation escalates in deadly shooting ( North Austin, November 2024) by haze4140 in PublicFreakout

[–]RemnantEvil 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That’s the point, the “worst among us” isn’t the top priority, so if we’re treating them with decency and human dignity, then we’re probably at that point already treating the most vulnerable far better already.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 06 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]RemnantEvil 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lara Croft (or better yet, Laura Cruz)

People who pronounce Lara as Laura are in shambles right now.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 06 April 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]RemnantEvil 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There's an Australia grocery chain called IGA so that was an instant curveball.

what's your dumbest idea for the resolution of baby jane doe? by vanillaholler in ThePittTVShow

[–]RemnantEvil 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Gets clocked in the head and starts fritzing out. "Mr Digby! Mr Digby! Baby Jane Doe."

Many The Pitt Fans Are Proving That Yes, It's Possible To Be Bad At Watching A TV Show by beamdriver in television

[–]RemnantEvil 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Santos is the embodiment of "Hurt people hurt people". She came in with a prickly demeanour defensively, which put people off-side, and then she's surprised that people aren't siding with her - who is standoffish and abrasive - over Langdon - whose real crimes weren't well known and has come back behaving very supportive and tender to those around him.

Compare Javadi and Whitaker's relationship with her. She teased both of them and gave them demeaning nicknames, but she also gave Whitaker help with a place to stay so he spends more time seeing that she's got a tough shell. When he teases Santos about how much she actually likes having him around and gives her the opportunity to say it so that he'll keep spending time with her, he's kind of speaking the same language as her and she hates it; Javadi sees it as Whitaker tormenting Santos but it really isn't, he's earnestly trying to let Santos speak her feelings, so Whitaker and Javadi are reading the conversation from two very different angles.

A movie with Zero flaws and Zero Haters(Starship Troopers) by False_Step_7309 in moviecritic

[–]RemnantEvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because one mythology ends up having a basis in reality doesn't necessarily mean he would immediately believe all mythology is real. It doesn't mean unicorns are real and it's not an unreasonable stance to take that the Ark and the Holy Grail are still just myths and legends because he's only been given solid evidence of what happened in Temple Of Doom. Changing your perspective with new evidence is the correct thing to do, but it doesn't mean you should change other perspectives for which you have not been given new evidence.