I just need things to be immediately appealing to me and continue to do so. I rarely rank things because there's too many factors. I don't really believe in objective structural and story problems. I only believe in "Can I keep watching this and continue to enjoy it". And I've been able to do that with all the Marvel…

We've got La Boheme in May! Gonna definitely try to make it myself. I'd like to make the Opera a regular thing in my life.

I'm going to have to take this to Twitter and the larger world in general. I'm sure there's an answer out there that already exists. I just don't know where.

I think the problem here is that if they're making a setting from "scratch" like Star Wars which has no Earthly origins in-universe outside of fan speculation. You can say one guy is black and this lady has pink skin, or whatever else and that gets your point across. But how do you describe someone we'd recognize as…

How are we 3 years into Kamala Khan's story and she still doesn't have a rogues gallery? Is this just how current comics operate? Is her comic just trying to eschew such conventions?

Sorry for assuming. You just didn't come across as folks who loved that kind of stuff. I dunno. Like people who'd love Black Dynamite but find any Shaft movie to be just okay. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just saying from observing the kind of stuff Kristen says you guys love.

It's not only sounds racist it's also still geographically-based. You really have your work cut out for you there. But I'll think on it.

Now if only we can get a Superman movie by someone who loves Superman BUT recognizes that there's more than one way to tell a Superman story and realizes there's more than one kind of Superman.

Yeah but you're also kinda not the audience for that particular kind of show. Or at least you don't seem like it anyway. And by that I don't mean "You're not black". I mean I can't honestly see you two warming up to self-serious Blaxploitation. Parodies, humorous homages & pastiche and comedies maybe, but not like the…

I guess it's just okay to me. Like it was addictive, but the Flash is also addictive. The addiction means nothing.

I'm not surprised by this. But I was hoping it would at least be watchable. I'll still give it a chance.

StarHammer is the story of Evelyn Li, an aimless teen who's forced to take on the mantle of an infamous superheroine after inadvertently coming into possession of a powerful artifact.

Legion is my jam. It's not just what I want out of a superhero show, it's exactly what I want from any sort of show. I'm glad a project I had planned at the beginning of the decade never got off the ground. It would've just looked like pure garbage next to Legion.

I'm going to have to see if it's in the Minnesota library system. If not I'll hit up the used bookstores. Thanks for the rec.

The show's subtle but still noticeable shift from grounded superhero show to goofy sci-fi Blaxploitation is something I feel could've worked if you drop a few eps and give the whole series a couple more passes at the script level. And it would've still reached the sort of goals the show was going for.

I actually dig the performance for Diamondback. I don't like a lot of the individual character choices that they made. But the scenery chewing and sheer ridiculous nature of the guy feels like it could've easily fit with maybe a few more drafts and 2 fewer episodes.

That makes sense. I'm always hearing about how he pretty much walks away with the entire show. And I feel like I may have watched a slightly different show than everyone else where he and the others are shouldering the load as best they can, with often exceptional results.

I might need to read this Slash Maraud.

I'm one of the few people who wasn't overly wowed by Cottonmouth so I'm always wondering why people make such a big deal about him and his sudden exit. It's not that I don't think Ali's a great actor, I just didn't find his performance all that more compelling than anyone else's when he was still on the show.

I did love Lego Batman. I loved it for the fan service and also the production design, art direction, cinematography and lighting. But I also just loved it for the exploration of the mythos and our own relationship to it.