There’s no accounting for taste, of course, but VB has never been shy about dropping villain bodies for a (somewhat uncomfortable) laugh. How soon we forget the massacre of the twisted Groovy Gang in ¡Viva los Muertos! all the way back in season 2 — which for my money was a lot more disturbing thanks to the…
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Moreover, GRRM has television-writing experience so he certainly knows what to trim to bring his idea in on a budget.
The sad part is that we’re already what, halfway through the new season we’ve waited so long for? They don’t have the runtime to spin things out for an extended period.
I enjoy the character, but I really am brought up short every time Tom Pelphry’s oddly waxen face gets a close-up. It’s like he had a Daredevil-style accident where his face was splashed with Botox and he became unable to achieve proper facial expressions.
It feels like the show did this just to address certain complaints about Finn Jones and Danny Rand as a character, and I’m not a fan of it.
I’d advise against it. Events from S1 motivate just about everything that happens in S2, and you lose a lot of the impact if they’re just hearsay.
I have to disagree that Ward and Joy are afterthoughts this season; one of the main themes running through all ten episodes is that “every family fucks you up in its own way,” which, sure, you could argue is way too complicated and subtle an idea for a martial arts/superpowers show with comic-book-quality writing to…
A kindergarten crush is not an ex-girlfriend. I was responding specifically to that situation.
Here’s how you do it: don’t fuck people until you’re 100% certain they’re too cool to ever want completely out of your life. Then if it doesn’t work out, as long as they forgive you for whatever you did, you can still be friends.
I too have read the entire Wheel of Time series, and bloat is definitely its worst fault. Teenaged-me was impressed by the fact that, unlike most fantasy epics of the day, where the Prophesied Hero gets all the Realms of Men behind him in willing self-sacrifice in the space of a couple chapters, WOT was willing to let…
Well, I felt a little bit of a spark, but it did not escape my notice that he wound up answering maybe one question for every three or four that he asked and kept those answers quite vague. That plus a total lack of long-term relationship history has me thinking “con artist.”
Because it will only ever be unified against us. We’re in charge, after all.
He didn’t say less time than it takes to play a game of baseball; he said to watch a game of baseball. Twenty-seven days may be low-balling it.
I gotta say that I never anticipated Hank’s cri de couer about how he’s tried to follow in his dad’s footsteps as a boy adventurer and gotten nothing but scorn for it, while Dean has rebelled and acted out and been lavished with paternal attention in response. Self-reflection has never been his bag, but it was a…
Hot take: Superhero movies are more important to the continued existence of film as an art form than any 100 meditations on growing up, searching for a found family, etc. that your sensitive filmmaker types will champion as real cinema. That kind of story is being done better on television, and it’s time we admit that…
While it’s certainly true that the Seattle sound eclipsed the L.A. sound in rock in the early 1990s, the contest took quite a bit longer to be settled than most people realize/remember. Use Your Illusion I/II (the follow-up to Appetite for Destruction) came out in September of 1991 — just one week prior to the release…
If you’re not a douchebag, you call Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Guns ‘N Roses and the other Led Zeppelin/Deep Purple-derived branch of bluesy metal bands “glam metal” and you trace their tights-and-teased-hair aesthetic back to David Bowie, Thin Lizzy, etc.
Hot take: The first two Thor movies’ flaws largely derive from the bland presence of Natalie Portman (who has been failing to live up to a credit she earned when she was 10 years old for her entire career) and the cringingly unfunny comic relief of Kat Dennings. The bit in Thor 2 where Dennings essentially drafts a…
Captain America: The First Avenger is regrettably bland and uninspired despite the perfect casting of Hugo Weaving as The Red Skull. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Peggy Carter’s TV series after yawning through Hayley Atwell’s performance in the film. The Winter Soldier was probably the biggest uptick in…