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They didn't necessarily start out as Drizzt books - it's just that Salvatore realized that's where the audience response and money was, so the ensemble cast shuffled around a bunch.

 Garak, on 24 September 2020 - 08:26 AM, said:

The President and his press handlers have stuck to a strategy with three parts regarding actual reporters asking him questions.

The first part is that they are stuffing the official briefings with people from OAN, Fox, and other groups that will lob him super easy questions that are designed for him to hit his talking points. These people are scum, but they're his scum so they get the access and so on. Access is very heavily prized by reporters and unfortunately, they as a collective do not realize that it matters less with this administration than it's ever mattered before - the leaks will find them bc this administration loves to leak. Maggie Haberman had been puffing up Ivanka and Jared for years because they were leaking to her and it's fucked up the country to some degree bc people believe Maggie and she believes them.

Second, he's bullying the "bold" reporters and sometimes preventing them from getting into the room to ask questions. The reporters he has the biggest problems with are black and women.
https://www.vogue.co...nald-trump-feud

Third, the Trump administration is spinning so much bullshit on so many topics that the reporters mostly can't keep up. They're not equipped to cut through the bullshit over and over and research things in a way that someone like John Oliver can. They don't have the experience and they don't have the gumption/healthcare to continually put their job at risk to call these people out. How do you risk a mortgage and healthcare when the country already believes you're kind of bad at your job and the people with the power fucking hate you? Well, it's a tough decision.

 Aptorian, on 24 September 2020 - 01:09 PM, said:

I think he dies like 3 times in the series.

I feel ashamed for once arguing here that racism was worse in Europe. They're different flavors, but it's a more entrenched and far more violent and thieving form in the US.

This series of decisions and charges tells us an enormous amount. It tells us that we are not safe from the police, we are not safe from paramilitary wannabes, we often cannot get justice, we are forced to pay the salaries of people enacting and strengthening the systems and organizations doing this violence, and that large swathes of the media cannot grapple with all of this because it would require tossing out their "there are two sides to every issue" approach.

Maslany is a top tier actor in terms of skills. I hope she makes tons of money as Hulk and can do Mark Ruffalo style passion projects.