The casting conversation for Supergirl:
"Is she extremely attractive?"
"No"
"OK, not a must-have. So she's athletic?"
"Also no"
"So then at least we got someone world-famous!"
"Nope. She's unknown"
"Oh. Well, she must have a great vibe"
"Nah, she will insult the audience repeatedly."
"So then she must be a HUGE comic book fan?"
"Nope. She will say in interviews she basically doesn't know the character"
"Well, Superman is all-American, she must totally hold up American values!"
"She's Australian."
"Hmmm...she's hired!"
<fast forward 2 years>
"Supergirl failed! How could this have happened? It must be the fault of the audience."
@vedugudev@michaelmalice Your anecdotal experience means nothing to the compiled data. If this is true, and you're not lying for clout on the internet, then you're simply an outlier.
@michaelmalice I used to be confused by people who do things like obliviously block the grocery store aisle and seem to totally lack situational awareness. Now I view them the same way I would a robot vacuum.
@JCK_86 NYC has a system to give free or heavily subsidized passes to people in need. There are people who would rather spend the money on other things (the guy in the story had a nice phone and shoes). $1.50 is affordable to everyone.
When San Francisco installed jump proof fare gates, crime, vandalism and the need for janitorial services plummeted by as much as 90%. The notion we have to tolerate disorder and crime from people who won’t pay $1.50 because we feel sorry for them it is deeply corrosive.
The new DCU is just about @JamesGunn insert of his stupid dog. Both movies have essentially been about saving a self-insert of his dog. Not even a comic accurate Krypto.