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Lindsay Ellis
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Mar 30, 2018
Even as Nostalgia Bait, 'Ready Player One' Fails to Actually Be Nostalgic
There’s no shortage of people ready to deploy "Thermian arguments" -- a logical fallacy arguing that any piece of media is beyond criticism as long as it makes logical sense within its own universe -- to explain the perfectly plausible, in-universe inclusion of the Iron Giant committing atrocities in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One.
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