Catch-up notes:
- I never asked: What's The Stand? I've never heard of it.
- Pirates 5 not performing as well didn't have anything to do with Johnny Depp. It had everything to do with people being sick of redundant swashbuckling movies with the same cast.
- Kathryn Arnold should lose her job over this. She is not an "expert" in the slightest; she's wholly unintelligent. The sheer amount of ignorant babble that came out of her mouth... yikes. If I were her employer, I would not someone this embarrassing representing my company.
- Apparently there were defamatory remarks toward Amber, but not toward Johnny in this psycho's brain? WUT? Her testimony was hilarious for all the most infuriating reasons. At least Dr. Spiegel knows things from textbooks (though not how to identify them properly) and the hand surgeon guy is a probably good doctor who didn't know jack squat about Jack Sparrow's injury. This woman believes literally everything she hears since she can't think for herself.
- When Ms. Arnold started rattling off the list of names of "comparable careers" I trained my eyes on the gallery audience and there were a couple of facepalms, a few heads shaken, and a few people busting up in stitches. The jury most certainly reacted the same way. Amber, who's been around since like 2008 or so, was hardly relevant until being cast as Mera. Again, Ana de Armas is the only one on there that's an apt comparison in terms of career trajectory, but Ana's a great actress while Amber is not. This is why Ana's on the upsring
- Wayne absolutely destroyed her. Glorious.
- Starting today... the defense finally rested. They have very limited time to cross-examine and rebut the rebuttal. Another two hours would've been handy for them.
- Ben Chew's rant went on for way too long. The defense's rebuttal said the court in the UK said it's just a fact that he's a wife-beater. Amber is the beater. This has been proven. Amber's team still thinks they could win this counter-claim. Their chance is below zero. The argument that Adam Waldman was speaking for Johnny made me crack up laughing. It's been proven that the harpy beat Johnny beyond a reasonable doubt. No defamatory comments were made by Waldman.
I stopped there after yadda-yadda-yaddaing the rest of it. Sad that the ludicrous counter-claim was denied. The $100 million is such a ridiculous sum that is unsubstantiated and solely based on conjecture. As was said, if this was gender-reversed, it would be a very open-and-shut case, and if justice does not prevail... I don't wanna know what would happen tbh.