Lindsay Ellis

I think that Todd's skin color was brightened by the flash of the camera. But that's just me.

6 feet is tall, above average height, not super tall but definitely tall.

The Whole Plate is set to return on June 29th.

Whats that again? I forgot.

An exploration of film academia and its assorted fields of study via Michael Bay's Transformers

Oh, right, that's fun.

I admire Lindsey's patience in meticulously analysing these films. I doubt I'd be able to get through them even once.

Well, picking apart something you despise can be fun, too.

Liked her quip about Thanos.

Thanos done gone too far by picking on poor Loki

Part two of It's Lit!, this time Lindsay discusses the growth of YA literature.

The new layout appears to have borked up the youtube links.

Here's the It's Lit video on YA novels for anyone who hasn't watched yet since RIP youtube embeds.

Edited by Nouct on Jun 26th 2018 at 7:25:08 AM

Thank you

I'm A-OK with that. Youtube embeds never seemed worth the trouble, considering how much they slow down the forums.

None at all? Never had any slowdowns due to embeds.

The, say, Cinemasins or Zero Punctuation threads would take about ten seconds to load thanks to the embeds. Any thread that had more embeds than discussion were not worth it.

Weird issue you had then :/

I've never had issues with slowdown from embeds. Maybe its on your end?

I've never had issues with vids and, even then, it sounds like the frequency of them on a page is more the problem, which I don't think Lindsay releases videos fast enough to have that kind of a problem.

Honestly the problem with young adult literature is that they can be very... too indulgent.

This will be fun.

Intriguing. I'm not sure if a MTMTE-style relationship like Chromedome and Rewind would be viable in a Transformers film, but I'd very much like to see some exploration of how magically powered robots acclimate to the societal and cultural norms of the civilizations they infiltrate, including the acquisition of a concept of gender (provided they didn't already have one).

While the franchise has relationships that do represent homosexuality in a positive light, I don't feel like it deserves to be talked about. You have an endless amount of established characters thus pairing them together is easier than shoehorning in a specific character or creating an entirely new character. It's not a deep message, it's a writing tool.

I'm sorry if this came off as preachy or homophobic, this topic just comes off as very forced to me. I have no idea how this could apply to the live action films either. If anything, they're probably offensive as expected.

I'm such an idiot...

Edited by ParaChomp on Jun 29th 2018 at 1:43:43 AM

She's covering the bayformer films.

There's no chance it's positive.