You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I was avoiding posting in this thread since I don't agree with the sentiment, and I knew anything I'd say in this thread would count as a signature, but if SFS is going to join, why not?
kex it appears that you have been coaxed into a snafu
I'm not really in a snafu necessarily it just bothers me- as someone who Has Opinions- that someone would tell someone else to never express those opinions, even jokingly. As someone who agrees with Todd rather frequently, at any rate, it does also end up feeling a bit like my opinions are by extension insulted.
In seriousness, critics dipping their toes into a field of criticism in which they are not trained usually goes poorly (see: Roger Ebert and video games as the most notable example).
But anyway, I don't actually have anything against Todd in the Shadows in particular, but so many people think I do that I can't not play into it, you know?
Todd has said that he's a bit more interested in film criticism than music criticism but he does what he does because not as many people fill that particular niche. At any rate, the issue with Ebert was partially that he was dismissive of the medium to begin with, not just untrained in it.
Todd's film opinions are bad because they are boring and wrong, and he expresses them with the utmost deep inner conviction, thus compounding the problem.
Furthermore, a man who does not like Agents of SHIELD but watches every episode anyway has no right to express opinions on live-action storytelling media.
Furthermore, a man who does not like Agents of SHIELD but watches every episode anyway has no right to express opinions on live-action storytelling media.
I don't understand this kind of intellectual masochism.
"I fucking hate every second of this but I am going to suffer through it just so I can tell everyone how terrible it is in detail."
Furthermore, a man who does not like Agents of SHIELD but watches every episode anyway has no right to express opinions on live-action storytelling media.
Why, though? What about the fact that he watches a show neither of you like precludes him from expressing opinions?
If you like Agents of SHIELD and watch it, you can express opinions on live-action storytelling media.
If you don't like Agents of SHIELD and don't or have stopped watching it you can express opinions on live-action storytelling media
If you don't like Agents of SHIELD and watch it, you are Part Of The Problem and must have your opinion-haver on live action storytelling media card taken away.
If you like Agents of SHIELD and watch it, you can express opinions on live-action storytelling media.
If you don't like Agents of SHIELD and don't or have stopped watching it you can express opinions on live-action storytelling media
If you don't like Agents of SHIELD and watch it, you are Part Of The Problem and must have your opinion-haver on live action storytelling media card taken away.
There're also simple things like torrenting, if you want to minimize how much of The Problem you are.
Even putting aside that hate-watching is a thing, I rather dislike the idea that you can't watch something you dislike and then be disallowed from talking about it. How else are you going to specify what exactly a piece of media does wrong without actually taking the time to indulge in enough of it? Read synopses? Go off of secondhand opinions? That's idiotic.
Or not treat Twitter and such like one more piece of an extended dialogue on whatever media is being discussed, where every opinion is (technically) open to modification with new information.
Todd doesn't talk about Agents of SHIELD. He just occasionally mentions watching it despite disliking it, as is his Duty As An Informed Consumer Of Marvel/Disney Content
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Now I know what you're thinking: Didn't I not review Transformers 10? Well the answer is, although I went to see it on opening day, T10 was just a recap of Transformers 5-9. I couldn't believe how many fratbro dudebro idiots went to see the movie, given how bad it was. Now let me pull up my 50$ commemorative Transformers 11 action figure to show you just how shitty even the toys for this thing are...
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
She trashed The Lorax movie.
My three-year-old cousin (actually the three year old son of my cousin) loves the Lorax movie.
AUSTIN DISAGREES WITH YOU, LINDSAY. YOU DARE TELL THE KING OF SCORPIONS THAT HE IS WRONG?
(He told me that he is the king of scorpions.)
Like seriously why do you even care
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Todd's terrible opinions on movies effect us ALL Kexruct.
like aside from you disagreeing with them
Like I don't agree with Dan Olson about all the superhero movies he listed as vaguely fascist-y but I understand and respect his reasoning for it.
like I understand you're being facetious but examine your metaphors here
at any rate you still haven't explained what you take issue with exactly
Honestly I'm picking up some "they're just sheeple"-y vibes from the way you stated that
I rest my case.
step back and see if it, like, actually applies
Where does that leave me?