lot of people hear “critical thinking” and think it means you have to be a jerk about it and you can’t like the media. The association of criticism and tearing something to shreds honestly sucks, because it’s wrong. Critical thinking doesn’t mean you have to hate everything with flaws. It means you need to think about it at more than the surface level, and discuss why the author made the choices they made, why certain things played out the way they did, and what real-life influences might’ve inspired the story.