We both through it was great. Thoroughly delightful. And I was surprised at how full the 90 minutes was - a lot fewer of the “let’s pause and stare in wonder at the CGI” moments.” We finished Loki last night and I have no idea why people thought that Ep 6 stuck the landing. Completely boring navel gazing about an…

What do you think you were missing, because I thought it did a very creditable job of (re-)introducing Kamala and Monica to audiences who may not have seen their TV appearances?

1. Kudos to the cinematographer for keeping it just tight enough on Lashana Lynch’s face that it would be difficult to see the Binary marks at first. Bringing Kelsey Grammer back was just wonderful as well.

none of the character is MoM were from the Singer X-Men movies. Prof X in that movie was from the 90's animated series. 

Not like the Fox movies were bastions of consistency. Maybe she ended up in the Ratner-verse. 

Other than being played by Patrick Stewart, that connection ended there. This seems to be THE Singer-verse.

You are shocked, after Multiverse of Madness did the same thing? 

Kelsey Grammar as Beast is pretty wild. I am shocked they’re even acknowledging the Singer X-Men movies. 

Hah. Spider-Tofu. I like it. 

I got hit by the tofu bug a number of times. At one point, as Peter, eventually his head and neck appeared (and maybe his feet) and I was then riding a bicycle with Harry, as Harry pretended that it was perfectly normal that his friends entire torso had vanished.

Other times, certain NPC models wouldn’t load.  Like…

Please don’t fix the bug I have with one of Miles’ suits that turns him into a tiny white textureless bounding box. It’s hilarious and I’d dearly miss the adventures of Spider-Box.

Because it is not about the money in a practical sense of buying things. Once you’re making millions of dollars a year and up, money is just how you keep score, points for a game. It is really about power and control.

Also, the thing is? It costs them a little money. It costs them WAY more power and leverage, and THAT’S what they want. That’s why they’re spending more to union bust than it would cost to just acquiesce to the demands. They know if they let things slip through their fingers here, they’ll lose control of their work…

But if you give workers money for food and rent, that’s fewer dollars producers have to spend on hookers and blow. 

And for what? Making money for the sake of making money is so hollow. Most studies suggest that you will get more out of your employees if they are happy.

“Do they mean for deepfaking?”

It’s not so much about the technology now, so much as where it’ll get over the course of the new contract (at least 3 years iirc). When Rogue One came out in 2016, it was crazy expensive and time-consuming to hire a body double and put Carrie Fisher’s face on her, and that was with her consent before she passed. Now…

Capitalism: We will pay you pennies one time for your voice and your image, and we will reanimate you after you die.

This is ghoulish.

It’s wild that the studios think this is a viable offer for anyone.