Considering the reviews for it, only 35% of critics and 29% of audiences thought Watchmen wasn’t cool. This is a pretty milquetoast observation.

The first Captain Marvel had the benefit of being the last MCU movie to release before Endgame, and I think a lot of people went into that movie only to see how it would set up Endgame.

Miyazaki’s anti-capitalism evolves into its penultimate form.

That war between mutants and Inhumans was just a cynical attempt to accommodate the TV MCU’s Perlmutter-era love of Inhumans anyway.

Microsoft has been trailing Sony for some time now and while I wish it was done via an internal push for more and better first party entries, them having additional massive franchises under their belt will help prevent Sony from resting on their laurels. If 3rd place is always 3rd, why do 1st & 2nd even need to try…

Eh, I don’t know. Microsoft and its subsidiaries have made/are making virtually nothing I want personally.

The original Aladdin made 504 million. They racebent the Genie in the remake and made 1.05 billion. So, 1:2 original to remake conversion after racebending. If you adjust for inflation, racebending the story added 102 million to the box office.

It’s not like The Little Mermaid was all that popular. It made half what Beauty and the Beast did in theaters and the remake is doing half what the Beauty and the Beast remake did in theaters. Disney flipped it for easy cash and is moving on.

Having written that, I do think trusting that the second half of this current season would see some bounce in viewership is a bit misguided as, if anything, your probably going to see a bigger drop as some part of the viewership gives up after the first half.

Finally paying off that Crystal/Quicksilver relationship exploration dynamic... or it would have if they hadn’t unmutanted Quicksilver.

You do realize that the “wizards” at the FTC just got shut down by a federal judge, right? That suggests that their case doesn’t actually have any legal merit.

All of the uproar from Xbox fans I’ve heard is, “Microsoft dropped the ball playing Sony and Nintendo’s game of developing independent first party talent over several decades of curating, so if they don’t just buy up the biggest studios right now Sony will win this generation’s console wars!”

This scene has done nothing to contradict the theory that the black Ninja Turtles are Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello in that order. In fact, them namedropping Drake and Beyonce (post-Homecoming) as their favorite humans right off the top has only reinforced this headcanon.

Welp, get plenty of her on Doom Patrol now!

Democrats have been scouting centrist candidates since 2016 while raising money for far-right candidates in order to outmaneuver the left and force a default ideologically muddy position they can use for reinforcing hypercapitalist policies. (see: “Democrats spend tens of millions amplifying far-right candidates in…

Old people don’t turn into dumb dicks. Old people grow more reasonable with time. But rich, old, dumb dicks outlive everybody else thanks to higher qualities of life and better medical care.

The fun thing about young people being incensed about old people saying things that are out of step with the politics of the current day is - it will happen to you too.

Criticism is literally canceling when these guys talk about canceling. The last time anyone was actually canceled was Stephen Colbert -- who was given a new show.

Jonathan Haidt? The guy who quit academia because he didn’t want to write a statement supporting anti-racism?

Honestly, he probably thinks there are too many Marvel shows because he wants to be paid more and producing television and movies costs money he could be hoarding.