endangered pander

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This morning I was going to rant about how Hollywood is awkwardly wedging China into aspiring blockbusters. In The Martian, for instance, the hapless Americans, capable of setting up a huge Mars base, are mysteriously incapable of launching food into Earth orbit without gracious Chinese help. In Gravity, an astronaut saves her own life only by lily-padding to the nonexistent Chinese space station.

And so I was going to satirize this with my own awkward infusion of noble China into today's post. I was going to title it "Pander Express." But I needed a third example, so I googled "movies chinese pandering."

Sigh. Colbert did this exact bit three months ago. His writers even thought of a sweet and sour joke. Jerks.