Thomas Johnson

English PhD (2024). Does work in breaking down boundaries across genre (e.g., SF/fantasy), medium (film/TV), and ethical/political categories (long story).

[joanie @laracroftbarbie]

the obvious thing: netflix wants to dismantle the theater industry. whether the sale goes through or not, their entire model is threatened by any form of film and television distribution not based around smartphone and smart tv usage. denying that feels silly when ted admits it.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

Incidentally, this is what trying to keep cinema alive actually looks like.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

@BranArtHouse @FuturistChannel What this deal *can* to and *will* do is demonstrably harm the medium and the various industries attached to it in ways almost impossible to calculate.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

The film “Morocco”, released in 1930, four years before the code, featured a lesbian kiss and earned four Oscar nominations.

Don’t believe this revisionism. The Code set back American cinema by decades.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

“Pluribus” is packed with pandemic imagery, even outside of its emphasis on hospitals. Lockdown orders, a person cut off from the outside world, freezers full of dead human bodies.

It’s a story of a person wanting space to grieve her loss as everyone tells her everything’s fine.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

Thinking about “Hamnet”, “Pluribus” and “28 Years Later” as media this year that is (among other things) very overtly about the absurdity of trying to grieve the recent massive global pandemic in a world that often refuses to acknowledge the enormity of the tragedy.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

“This one’s for the fans.”

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

So, I become Thomas Johnson, PhD, as of two hours ago. Feels pretty good. :)

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

@Powersofman1 Happy birthday, Joel!

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

@Kunda_Kentay I was already squicked out by all of the "phrasing" suggestions Microsoft Word was starting to make on my prose pre-Chat GPT. The idea of Grammarly making suggestions makes me shudder...

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

The original review, for anyone interested:

https://t.co/B4EMPGXsJ0

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

So I googled the title of my review of HBO's Watchmen that was published in 2020 in @adaptstudies's journal, and lo and behold, Google's AI is straight-up plagiarizing it.

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

So I googled the title of my review of HBO's Watchmen that was published in 2020 in @adaptstudies's journal, and lo and behold, Google's AI is straight-up plagiarizing it.

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

@Darren_Mooney I've been offline for a few weeks so this is the first I'm hearing about this. Gives me memories of the Buffy season 3 episode "Earshot," which was pulled after Columbine.

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

this is the attitude of the tech industry toward culture — it's just content, the artistic intention does not matter at all. So ridiculous especially when considering a decades-old album that was made intentionally as an album and should be experienced as such

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

Part of the fanbase

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

@Darren_Mooney This seemed very common in the response to "Lost" when it was on, as If characters would be sharing information with the same kind of ferocity that the online fandom was dissecting mysteries, and as if the characters didn't have to worry about issues of day-to-day survival.

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

@Powersofman1 Such a beautiful image, Joel. ❤️

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

@Powersofman1 @BoBoChow11 There's so much love here in this one moment alone. Brings my heart to bursting. ❤️

Thank you for giving us a peek into this beautiful friend-lover relationship you and Bob share. It's a sign of the soul-bonding intimacy that is too easy to dismiss as impossible to find.

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

2. Emily Nussbaum will make her first-ever visit to the historic @TexasTheatre in Dallas June 28 to screen The Truman Show with me, then talk about her reality TV history book Cue the Sun! Signed books will be available on site. Tix here: https://t.co/HnByhVeE1Q

[Thomas Johnson @tdjohnson_90]

@mattzollerseitz Bookmarking for later. :)

As part of my "Leftovers" research, I'm slowly working my way through "Max" on Max. Despite being a completist, I'm curious: would you say watching all the films in order is the ideal approach to watching the series for the first time?