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    The Walking Dead: Discussion Thread

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    In case anyone cares:

     

    Rumor has it (comic spoilers)

    that the comic is doing a surprise ending this week, despite having been solicited as usual for future months to come. Rick was killed off an issue or two ago and turned after a scheming community member assassinated him in his bed, not long after he gave a rousing speech declaring to his fellow thriving survivors that "we are

    not the walking dead!" - a counterpoint to Robert Kirkman and Rick's own OTT nihilistic 'we are the walking dead' speech in early years of the book. Carl has taken his mantle as hero/budding leader.

     

    I haven't read the comic much in ages as I don't like Kirkman's writing style, but I thought it was worth noting.

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    Netflix: One Day at a Time

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    @DRW50

     

     

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    The Politics Thread

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    That's why I don't mainline all this right now. I checked in on the debates but I don't have time to exhaust myself with too much of this until the field clears.

     

    I like Harris and Warren (who I think has made a tremendous improvement of late in terms of her campaign and electable chances) a lot. I'd prefer them. I have no problem pulling a lever for Joe if I have to. I have never seen him and will never see him as an evil or unfit man. I just think there is a way to marry the message you speak of (which certainly exists) to what a lot of people are hungry for - not just in terms of deranged unicorn dreams, which is certainly a problem, but in terms of taking bolder steps to change the trajectory and framing, not just triaging the same problems over and over.

     

    We've reached a point in our culture and in our global affairs, as well as on dire issues like climate, etc. where we're going to have go for the throat, and power, that doesn't come naturally to some of the party anymore. It's that important and necessary, and it absolutely comes naturally to this GOP. We have to work on pushing the party out of the defensive crouch some of it's been in frankly since the end of the Fairness Doctrine - the same crouch that dominates the thinking of, say, the New York Times (albeit to a much more extreme, right-sympathetic slant there). Sometimes those measures start as small as, say, not taking Chuck Todd's bullshít framing at a demand. But I just know that even I - who was raised with a woman who worked on the Hill most of her life and made it very clear to me how important it is to do the long, slow work - am reaching the end of my patience with not even enforcing subpoenas while kids are starving or dying in those cages. I understand the principle of the slow knife. But there has to be a knife. And in the meantime, too many of those kids aren't getting any less orphaned, any less hungry or any less dead.

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    The Politics Thread

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    3 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

    @Vee, I thought you'd appreciate this one.

     

    You're goddamn right!

     

    I don't disagree with any of the above re: what people are desperate for. I just don't believe the only place that can be found is Biden. I think Biden is a good man but is leading largely on voter familiarity with him and association with a (superficially) saner time.

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    The Politics Thread

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    The Politics Thread

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    Marianne Williamson is the weirdest candidate I've seen in a primary in awhile.

     

    I've loved Castro since Obama's tenure and thought he'd be president someday. I still hope so. But I'm much more for Harris and Warren atm.

     

     

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    Netflix: One Day at a Time

    in Netflix | Apple TV+ | Prime Video

    Posted · Edited by Vee

    I think Netflix still serves an important and valuable purpose, both for television and film. I admire so much of what they've done and are doing. The problem is they're now trying to pretend like they're NBC in the '80s and '90s, a big swinging dick network, and can afford to be mercenary, when in reality they are dealing with typical VC/startup money issues and trying to keep that hustle going til they're fully solvent. That's why there is the much-increased rush to force people to binge programming immediately to service their hasty metrics - something I hate to do with most shows, unlike a Stranger Things which I love but which is always just a singular cultural event, an extended motion picture - and to cap all non-owned properties at three seasons unless they perform beyond any logical expectation. They tried to claim ODAAT's numbers didn't work out and got clowned on that by actual data. The real reason is it wasn't their property. I'm still pissed the show isn't at CBS All Access because they couldn't do the gracious thing and let the streaming rights go. Yet they still want to act like they're the millennials' friend and ODAAT's biggest fans - no, you're a business.

     

    Netflix needs to own its choices, acknowledge the nuance of both their (still-shaky) business model and their alleged artistic aims, and either learn to more honestly reconcile them or don't try to have it both ways. Stop trying to pressurize audiences to mainline all content ASAP so your cash flow stays golden, and stop making shows and showrunners live by that brutal, unsustainable model.

     

    I didn't notice this in the original news:

     

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    As part of the deal, CBS will also broadcast the series later in 2020, after its run on Pop. CBS was the original home for Lear's groundbreaking original comedy more than 40 years ago.

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    Netflix: One Day at a Time

    in Netflix | Apple TV+ | Prime Video

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    Guess I have to learn how to watch Pop on streaming!

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    The Politics Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Vee

    Yeah. She's got my vote now.

     

    Meanwhile, on Opposite Street:

     

     

    And now, this week's new low:

     

     

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    American Crime: Discussion Thread

    in ABC | Disney+ | ESPN+ | FX | Hulu

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    I knew I was gay when I was thirteen, but I hid it for years. I folded it and slipped it under the rest of my emotional clutter. Not worth the hassle. No one will care anyway. If I can just keep making it smaller, smaller, smaller.... My shame took the form of a shrug, but it was shame. I’m a white, cis man from an upper-middle class liberal family. Acceptance was never a question. But still, suspended in all this privilege, I balked. It took me years. It’s ongoing. I’m saying this now because I have conspicuously not said it before. I’ve been out for years in my private life, but never quite publicly. I’ve played that tedious game. Most painfully, I’ve talked about the gay characters I’ve played from a neutral, almost anthropological distance, as if they were separate from me. These evasions are bizarre and embarrassing to me now, but at the time they were natural. Discretion was default, and it seemed benign. It would be presumptuous to assume anyone would care, yeah? And anyway, why should I have to say anything? What right do strangers have to the intimate details of my life? These and other background whispers––new, softer forms of the same voices from when I was thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.... Shame can come heavy and loud, but it can come quiet too; it can take cover behind comfort and convenience. But it’s always violent. For me, this discretion has become airless. I don’t want to censor––consciously or not––the ways I talk, sit, laugh, or dress, the stories I tell, the jokes I make, my points of reference and connection. I don’t want to be complicit, even peripherally, in the idea that being gay is a problem to be solved or hushed. I’m grateful to be gay. Queerness is a solution. It’s a promise against cliche and solipsism and blandness; it’s a tilted head and an open window. I value more everyday the people, movies, books, and music that open me to it. If you’re gay, bi, trans, two-spirit or questioning, if you’re confused, if you’re in pain or you feel you’re alone, if you aren’t or you don’t: You make the world more surprising and bearable. To all the queers, deviants, misfits, and lovers in my life: I love you. I love you. Happy Pride!

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