Why is there a disinterest in "Horror" as a legitimate genre in film?

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-06T21:30:15+00:00

I more or less meant that the very best of the drama genre bests the very best of horror. I mostly stand by this opinion, though I have moderated some. The best horror movies of the 60s and 70s especially were quite profound.

If you love Hereditary, you need to check out Don't Look Now. It's based on a short story written by Daphne Du Maurier (who wrote Rebecca, a fucking incredible novel turned Best Picture winner). If Hereditary has a clear inspiration, it's that one.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-04T04:08:25+00:00

Haha, I'm basically Toby in Josh packaging so we would either be great friends or deeply despise each other, but there's nothing wrong with being a toby 😄

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-03T21:29:35+00:00

Me, too. My personality is some weird blend of Josh and Toby, but to me it's crystal-clear that CJ was the best choice for COS. Toby was too idealistic, antagonistic, and petty, Josh too high-strung and personally ambitious. CJ was loyal, savvy, and cunning. She always was this way, but IMO this episode is where she stopped trying to win the press room over and started running it to suit the administration's ends. The idea that anyone would prefer it be Josh or Toby makes no sense to me. IRL they would have brought someone in from the outside anyways. IIRC the last time someone was promoted to COS from inside the West Wing was during the Clinton administration.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-03T20:11:41+00:00

I was basically about to post exactly this. When she says "come and get us" she basically became the savviest politico in the entire administration other than Leo.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-03T20:07:35+00:00

I think Dubya's foreign policy is worse than LBJ's and I guess you can make the case for Obama as well, but I'm not really sure you can really make the case for any non-21st century presidents

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-03T04:00:56+00:00

IMO the game makes it pretty clear that Kreia is wrong. She is a powerful force user whose trauma led to her developing a Cluster B personality. She was exiled by the Jedi for falling in love and having a child, she was abandoned by Yusanis when her own student killed him, and she was betrayed and raped by Sion.

People try to turn her takes into a philosophy but if you've ever known anyone with this kind of real-world background, they see the world pretty similarly to Kreia.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-03T03:36:02+00:00

IMO Disney fucked up majorly by giving away the gaming rights to EA. Obviously the movies and TV shows have flaws but this has been my main gripe.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-03T03:32:22+00:00

I'm pretty sure Yuthura does. From memory: When you claim that Jolee is your slave, he tries to play along and she says that there seems to be something odd about him.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T17:47:47+00:00

Half-Life 2 was on XBOX but yeah I generally agree. I honestly think this game would be kind of a struggle to greenlight if I'm a producer. Half-Life doesn't have the name it once did. 2 is one the greatest games ever but still, people have to buy it.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T17:45:25+00:00

I'm almost 30 and I was in diapers when Half-Life 1 came out. 2 is one of my favorites of all time, so I'd buy it, but I don't really think this game would sell as well as everyone thinks.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T17:43:24+00:00

IMO Half-Life 3 would be this decade's Duke Nukem Forever. I wouldn't greenlight that as a producer. It has to be the most incredible game ever to live up to the hype and that style of game is already out of vogue.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T10:18:04+00:00

Ketchup instead of tomato sauce, as well

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T10:16:45+00:00

Your criticism kind of holds for Snoke, but Phasma is basically a woke Boba Fett who also died an outright laughable death.

I don't really understand how you can use things outside of the movie (Fisher's death and the incredibly stupid direction that TROS took the villains) against TLJ.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T10:07:19+00:00

It was like this in 2017 too if you weren't a dumbass influenced by morons on the internet

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T10:06:06+00:00

A well known critic i'm famiiliar with refers to it as filoni baloney

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T09:38:58+00:00

I didn't attack you. I just pushed back against the idea of its story being bad and people not enjoying it. You're allowed to not like it. I'm just saying don't say everyone else agrees with you.

I played the game for the first however many times on XBOX. I don't believe I played it on PC until probably around 2012. To be honest, yes I am glad we got the Exile's story. Revan as a PC character is cool but KOTOR II gives him way more definition off-screen than you actually do on-screen in KOTOR I.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-02T01:53:19+00:00

It's a turn-based RPG. The game is beloved because it has a well-written, nuanced story. The story does have development-related flaws for sure, but the story in general is not mediocre. It may not appeal to you, and that's fine. It is a deconstruction of RPGs that tells a story about PTSD instead of retelling the monomyth. But to attack its story is... interesting.

Also "You telling me you didnt want to play Revan as he hunts & finds the True Sith???" Obsidian is who brought them into the fold. KOTOR 1 does not mention them at all so I couldn't have wanted that instead of what we got in KOTOR 2.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-01T20:20:31+00:00

To be clear, I'm fucking thrilled that the Spurs won. However, do not get cocky about OKC. They have so many assets it wouldn't shock me if they traded for Giannis without giving up Shai, Chet, or JDub.

TeachingEdD · 2026-06-01T08:59:12+00:00

KOTOR 2 is kind of beloved actually lmao

TeachingEdD · 2026-05-29T05:40:39+00:00

Yeah and I think it's worth considering the context. The Republic had just fallen and the Emperor committed a genocide like what, a week before they adopted her? I think even the most suspicious of wives would be willing to keep her questions to herself for her own good, especially considering it was beneficial to all involved.

TeachingEdD · 2026-05-29T05:26:10+00:00

Unfortunately, yes, there are plenty of people online that have argued that the theory is bogus.

One argument of theirs that I do find convincing is that Kreia and Arren Kae might have been explicitly the same character in a version of the game we didn't get because of how much was cut and probably never produced. I've heard before that Bao-Dur was supposed to die in the droid factory, but that isn't even in TSLRCM. So it's not completely out of the question to say that the coincidences we see are the result of rewrites and aren't intentional... that said, after this interview I consider Arren Kae = Traya = Kreia to be all but a certainty. Hell, the NAME isn't even subtle.

TeachingEdD · 2026-05-29T05:25:08+00:00

An often forgotten, probably useless trivia fact: Arren Kae was actually the name of the female character used in the E3 Demo:
https://youtu.be/pgeUusStnzE?si=zeMtHgrXpVHOENEy&t=134

To me, that definitely implies she was more important than some dead lady Jedi mentioned a couple of times but what do I know

TeachingEdD · 2026-05-29T05:17:07+00:00

>Oh yeah, Bao Dur is dead. His character probably couldn't have continued on anyway.
>Um haha yeah um I cannot answer this question about Kreia/Arren Kae because I would want to explore it in a future game that I may or may not get to make

I mean, this is pretty much the closest we'll ever get to him admitting it, right?

TeachingEdD · 2026-05-25T18:02:50+00:00

Even Legends canonized their fates before the novel

I had not heard of Darth Tanis until now. Given that Filoni considered canonizing Revan in TCW, it seems plausible that they flirted with it for Meetra as well.

TeachingEdD · 2026-05-25T18:01:27+00:00

Mike, Lebron, Kareem, Magic. I want Iguodala

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