Bryan Eagle

Captain of Federation starship USS Insecurity NCC-1985

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

If I am being jokey in the face of the current American political predicament, it is because I use humor as a coping mechanism. Not because I think this is a laughing matter. Anyway, I leave this:

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

@suchnerve I firmly believe shit like Cinema Sins has blame. Analyzing stories the most superficial, "it doesn't make sense UNLESS it was explicitly stated" is the worst way to engage w/ a story. Made a bunch of nerds who view plot as a mechanical roadmap, not a product of character choices

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

I’ve meandered. Point is, I’m tired of this ever present now, of dystopian fiction, of no vision for the Future. We have to dream one up, with our science and our art, or else none will come about. Let’s reclaim the Future from Trumpism & allow ourselves to dream beyond now

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

This will be my last Twitter post, so I’m gonna make it count. Trumpism - which I use to embody the age of Trump & the conservative agenda he represents - has taken a lot from us. It’s taken more than we realize. It’s taken the Future away from us 1/ 🧵

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

If we don’t imagine a world beyond now, we will never reach one. Every rebellion needs a plan for what to do when it is victorious. We need to allow ourselves to think we will exist 500 years from now, and that existence can be GOOD. 6/

[Amanda Wong @amandawtwong]

Maybe we were too hard on JJ Abrams for "Somehow Palpatine returned."

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

@ElieNYC The American Experiment is over. It didn’t work. A country by the name of America may continue, but it will either be a dictatorship or a democracy that must rewrite/undo so many founding Constitutional elements we may as well draft a new one

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

& it’s head is on your side. Ran out of characters. Zaslav knows a conservative, “anti-woke” media campaign is coming & knows playing ball will make him richer than having principles

Fuck fuck fuck cinema as art is in more trouble than we thought. That’s my prediction

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

The 2 things about this that jump at me:

1. Zaslav is like Musk or Bezos, deregulation will enable him to do anything to get richer & allow monopolistic moves
2. Such a monopoly is ideal for a dictator - easier to control content if there’s only 1 media company & is on your side

[Variety @Variety]

Trump Administration May Increase Opportunity for 'Needed' Industry Consolidation, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Says https://t.co/hoMv96AK5c

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

All those posts about Gen Z wanting less sex in film? Then you see how they vote more conservative. A new wave of puritanical bullshit is coming and like the first go round, Hollywood will capitulate in advance & an untrue portrait of social conservatism will grace every screen

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

The Zaslav & MPA statements on Trump make me fear another Hays Code era is coming. Studios preemptively self-imposing conservative pleasing content guidelines. They won’t try to censor you if you aren’t saying anything they object to, and the revenue stream isn’t disrupted 1/2

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

I worry with the decline of physical media, the effect of the original Code-era will happen: an erasure of prior made diverse, progressive art. Pull them from streaming, don’t make DVDs, an erasure of so much art just so the money making machine keeps churning 2/2

[Bryan Eagle @bryaneagleshow]

They know he’s a wannabe-dictator & think kissing his ass in advance (& killing projects with progressive themes from go) will keep them safe from his interference. Same logic that gave us the Hays Code: preemptively cater to a conservative govt so you can keep the $$ rolling in

[Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs]

What in the dystopian fuck is this. MPA has nothing to do with the US government and the president has no part in that industry and/or its governance, regulations or anything resembling censorship.

[Jane Schoenbrun @sapphicspielbrg]

Underrated actor: Joe Pantaliano

[Chase Masterson 😳 @ChaseMasterson]

It’s like the Cardassians got control of Deep Space 9 again.