It had looked like a match made in heaven. Shane Black, screenwriter extraordinaire, was finally given the reins of the Predator franchise. Then, the film released, and audiences complained of one of the most heinous misuses of autism onscreen in years. I'd stayed away...until now. These are my findings.
00:00 Shane Black
02:20 Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing
6:11 The Problem
7:32 1. The Bullies
10:40 2. The Autism Goes Away
12:37 A Brief History of Stereotyping in Predator Movies
15:16 3. They Keep Speaking For Us
18:30 The Autism-Coding That Actually Works
20:26 4. The Myth of the Superpowered Autistic
25:23 Maybe He Didn't Know What He Was Doing
28:44 Why The Predator Didn't Work
