ATJ confirmed this on Stephen Colbert’s show last week, by the way. An effect was applied to the younger actress’s face to subtly meet in the middle and gradually bring ATJ’s features forward in the mix, until she takes over the role later in the film.

Or maybe she just has extra large, bulbous eyes.

And yet no less strange or outlandish in this modern age.

Boy, you’re really not making nostalgia any less attractive by calling the past mashed potatoes.  Mmm, mashed potatoes... I remember when...

To be fair, Marvel still does do a crapload of animated shows, they just aren’t MCU tie-ins.

Counterpoint: Asgard was defined as a people, not a place, in Thor 3 — so people can still “go there” in the Buckaroo Banzai sense. In Love And Thunder we find the surviving Asgardians (and some other aliens rescued from the Grandmaster) living in Norway, in a town they have dubbed New Asgard.

You’ve crossed an important line as a pop-culture publication when “editing mistake” feels like a more likely explanation than “wordplay.”

Exactly! And Simu Liu may not have become the next Robert Downey Jr. but he’s not going hungry either. His work in Kim’s Convenience proves he’s got comedy chops, and he managed to get cast in Barbie (which I haven’t seen yet, but it’s on my list!) which is surely bringing him to the attention of a whole new audience.

I think Trinity is the reason why Ryan Reynolds is going to have to work his entire life just to get back to zero with me, no matter how many English soccer teams he tries to sell artisanal tequila to.

Some makeup and editing goes a long way towards making people less recognizable.

Well, thick skin comes from people telling you “no” and you having to live with it. The more power you get, the fewer “no”s you hear, and the greater your ability to disregard them. Being plunged back into the realm of Some Jerk Nobody Gives a Shit About with the rest of us (i.e. any lightly-moderated comments…

So this was over 10 years ago now, but at the time it was one of the few Russell Brand bits I’d ever seen (I was not familiar with “Get Me to the Greek” which seems to have been where a lot of US people first heard of him) and I thought it was legitimately funny and well-delivered.

I watched both, and the Kevin Smith show was far superior. The latter was so transparently a 30-minute ad for toys (Hey look, when the characters are powered up, they have a different costume! Now we can sell twice as many!) that the limp stories didn’t have a chance at being memorable for anybody over the age of 8 or…

I only had about a dozen or so that I’d been saving since my first concert in 1990 (Judas Priest/Megadeth/Testament at the Rosemont Horizon, a great bill!) but I decided a year or so ago they deserved better than to be stuck in a box in my closet, and wound up buying a picture frame to arrange them in.

Some of us thought HBO would never reach the heights of a horse being masturbated on-screen that we got with Silicon Valley again. We were fools to doubt.

Not sure if I’ve ever seen that many tugs on a television show before.

A major award conversation about a show also prompts the networks themselves to spend more on advertising it, and sometimes that extra bit of saturation helps.

I’m of two minds about this.

Minor nitpick, Everett Ross has never been a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. He was originally a CIA agent, but his currency with the Agency is probably not so hot after revealing state secrets to the Wakandans (in Black Panther 2) and escaping U.S. custody with their help.

I don’t understand what’s stopping anybody from talking about a great show weeks and months later, either. “Fishes” isn’t going to be any less of a masterpiece when the final season of Reservation Dogs drops, right?