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  • I think Shia, I can’t spell his last name, acting was the weakest part, but outside of that I thought it did a good job by most accounts.

    There is a pretty decent cast that does a good job hitting the comedic and serious tones for what is a ridiculous premise (advanced robots disguising themselves as vehicles). The plot also gives a somewhat reasonable explanation for why the transformers are on earth and links it to human history in a neat way. And I don’t think anyone could argue for the action sequences, at least for the time it released.

    Sure its no Oscar winner, but for what it’s supposed to be I thought it hit most of the marks.

    Now the sequels and future movies, those are all a mess.



  • No matter how you slice things up you will be creating minority and majority voices. It may be that splitting up districts by population means there is no race based majority district or it makes it so urban voices have a majority in most if not all districts. If you slice by some geographic definition you’ll absolutely create districts with varying population sizes, giving certain people a larger voice at the state and national level.

    In the end, just the decision of what a source of bias even is will likely have some bias to it. I’m not saying that we can’t make things better, but that there is no such thing as a perfect way to draw districts and at the end of the day just choosing which algorithm is used will benefit some people over others.




  • I got that he is supposed to come off inexperienced, the issue is that I’m not sure the plot of the entire movie changes much if he were removed from the events.

    He never solves the riddlers riddles, he has to be told the answer (which the riddler might have told to anyone at that point). He does disarm the shooters at the very end, but he doesn’t stop any killings/assassination attempt/flooding. It could be argued that maybe the politican would have been successfully killed if he didn’t stop the riddlers henchmen (I don’t think the shooter misses because of Batman, but can’t recall). Additionally, he was the one that really set off the falcone plot point, which may have been dealt with very differently if he didn’t get involved.