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Comment Really, Netflix is concerned with returns? (Score 1) 135

>"We have to be careful about making sure that we're not investing in places that are not really yielding a return..."

Yeah, they're definitely careful with that. It's not as if they'd licence a property (e.g. Witcher, Cowboy Beebop, Masters of the Universe), only to run it into the ground by adapting it for the fabled 'modern audience'. Not to mention Queen Cleopatra, to which literally thousands flocked to observe unique scholarship, such as historical fact established through the method of 'because my grandmother said so'.

Comment Re:Investors seeking to get their money out (Score 1) 45

Agreed. This is a textbook 'new media' zombie. Reddit has been around for around 18 years, and to my knowledge is yet to turn a profit. And that's not because they've reinvested for growth, like Amazon. They simply do not have a path to profitability.

Whatever the IPO price is, expect it to head south once those shares begin trading. Given the choice, I'd put my money into sausages. They're a far better investment so long as they're cooked and eaten before they go off.

Comment Re:What's unique about the EU... (Score 1) 18

>Wrong. There is literally a procedure to tell the Commission to write the legislation.

Which procedure is this? The commission holds ''right of initiative''. As far as I can see, Parliament can only invite the EC to propose legislation - not tell them.

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Comment Re:An institution that penalizes plagiary (Score 1) 363

>I wouldn't celebrate until we hear who's the replacement,

Harvard critical theorists are busy tabulating identity combinations to determine the type of token suited to replace Gay. All we know is that they can't go lower on the progressive stack than black wammen. It seems all but certain the replacement will need to be some variation of gay or transgender, although simply sticking with black wammen is also an option.

Comment Re:I'll say it (Score 1) 65

>In other words, you could ignore the stuff you don't like (non straight while males) before, and object to writers being able to use those things openly.

Sure, go with that. Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood is easily in my top ten comics of all time, and that character is positively flaming. The difference is it's an original character that was written well. Also, the story wasn't anchored on Waugh being gay.

>As for it being a family show, it's well documented that quite a few of the companions were selected to add some sex appeal, complete with low cut tops and even the odd bikini. It's okay when it's appealing to straight men with white women I guess.

Body shaming aside, white women? Nobody has an objections as to the race of companions and other supporting characters. Martha Jones wasn't a thing?

It's not the same thing and you know it. Your weirdo racist sex cult is clear on why changes are made.

Comment Re:I'll say it (Score 1) 65

>Are you really trying to claim that The Doctor was never gay before? Even a little bit?

No, I'm not claiming that. Normal people don't speculate on characters having fringe sexual habits - or any sexual habits for that matter. It's a family show.

>Let's see. He hangs out with hot young women, but shows no interest in them. He's very accepting of non traditional relationships between people he meets. His flamboyant style and choice of attire is what us Brits would call "camp" at times.

This is Alex Jones level connecting the dots. He's an effectively immortal alien. You could just as well be speculating as to whether E.T. would have enjoyed some rimming.

>As Donna noted, the signs have been there since the start. Some of the writers were gay, but couldn't have gay characters on screen due to attitudes at the time, but it didn't stop them writing The Doctor as gay.

Sex weirdos see sex in everything, even in family shows. Minority writers we remember are those who wrote good stuff. It's only very recently 'representation' has become a thing, where identity obsessives routinely retcon characters in order to inject themselves into the work. Oddly enough, it tends to fail badly.

Comment Re:I'll say it (Score 1) 65

>Maybe your aren't familiar with Who, but one of the core elements is that the Doctor "regenerates" every few years. New actor, new personality, but common elements and memories.

You might not know how this worked in the UK. Everybody has a first Doctor, mine being John Pertwee.

>So any attributes like race or gender are temporary. It's been established that Time Lords can change gender when regenerating, before The Doctor did it. Well, you can't read too much into canon... One Time Lord used regeneration to try on different looks, like she was trying on different outfits, and then settled in looking like a princess they had recently met.

In the mainstream series, which most people know, there were over fifty years of the Doctor being as people knew him. Then in a short few years he's a woman, a black woman, then a gay black man. Those on the rewrite side of history may try to spin an alternative history to justify this, yet normal people see it for what it is. It's a long running British character being bastardised by identitarians, and it's not going to work. Although these things get lauded by your kind, it fails at the point where it needs normal people to provide their money/time. Doctor Who, like Star Wars and Marvel is headed to apathy. There just aren't enough of your kind to support these revisionist projects. At least by creating new things, with budgets targeting racist/sexist minorities there'd be a hope of profit.

Comment Re:I'll say it (Score 1) 65

Then make new characters. Axel Foley, B.A. Baracas, Storm, Devlin Waugh, Judges Anderson/Hershey/Giant, Northstar, Blade et al were not race/sex swaps. Yet we had all of this in the 80s and 90s.

The reason literal Nazis (i.e. normal people) walk away is because of diversity cultists crudely injecting their divisive nonsense into existing properties, ruining them in the process. Tom of Finland sold well long before it was deemed necessary to turn Superman into a gay romance.

Comment Re:I'll say it (Score 2) 65

>For years there have been people whining that the next Doctor will have to be black, gay, transgender, an immigrant, and every other grievance imaginable.

It wasn't whining - more that you people are very predictable. I guessed the next doctor would be male, in an effort to recover viewers they had lost. Per the progressive stack, I guessed the doctor would need to be black or gay. We'll see if the show succeeds, or if follows the other properties that replaced success with anger, then apathy.

Comment Re:I read a book 40 years ago (Score 1) 42

Yeah, that's the key. So long as doesn't retain enough to violate copyright, either in its database or what can output then it's all good. It could still run into trademark issues. For example, if it churns out new Batman stories that incorporate elements (e.g. Batman, Batmobile) protected by trademarks.

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