I feel like RTD and Garth Marenghi's attitudes about writers who use subtext align perfectly 

This. He’s more the stereotype of the mad scientist messing with the forces of nature, than he is an evil disabled person.

It does seriously miss the point of the consequences of artificially extending life beyond natural limits.

Can’t stuff like facial scarring (etc.) for baddies also just be indicative of them being, well, fight-experienced? Like they’ve risen through the ranks of the bad by getting in amongst it tooth-and-nail, so to speak?

People in wheelchairs, or with any other disability, can surely be as good, neutral, or evil as anyone else and removing an evil character’s wheelchair for this purpose almost feels discriminatory (albeit in a well-intentioned way). There’s a scene in (iirc) Jingo by Terry Pratchett where Sam Vimes is called out by…

It’s interesting to hear this from RTD. He has been responsible for some really good LGBT+ representation on TV. Historically, exactly the same thing he’s concerned about with disabled villains occurred with gay or gay-coded villains through the whole history of cinema - indeed it’s still occurring in a lot of…

Nobody needs to encourage Hollywood accountants, sadly 

Yes. And you thought them de-aging Aunt May was bad... :P

Pearl Jam’s “Last Kiss” is good and Alien Ant Farm’s “Smooth Criminal” was a lot of fun. Why are they here?

Yeah, the Fall Out Boy rendition is pretty terrible. Part of the genius behind the original that each verse covered a different decade. It was so easy to add three more verses since the song had been released roughly 30 years ago. Instead, they jumbled everything together.

We didn’t? I mean, we did, in that nothing came out for 18 months between Far from Home (July 2019) and Wandavision (January 2021). They then doubled down by having ALL THE THINGS (well, four films and five series) coming out in 2021, of course, so I get where the sense that we didn’t have a breather comes from, but…

Review summaries by vibe:

“Really good! (Just not great.)“ - io9
“Really great, I guess. Look, I gave it a B+, alright?” - AV Club
“This is the worst sci-fi I’ve seen today.” - The Verge

yeah, only Wes Anderson can out-Wes Anderson Wes Anderson

The Internet: Dang, that Asteroid City trailer is the most Wes Anderson that Wes Anderson has been.

I’m guessing what he is saying without saying is “We shot a bunch of stuff to tie it back into the DCCU, then reshot with the new batmen when it was supposed to tie in with the flash, and now we have taken that stuff out to make it more standalone in case it does well so we can incorporate it into the new Gunnverse.”

The inherent problem with these photorealistic remakes is they lose everything that makes the animation so indelible. Big, expressive faces and lots of color.

That ‘water dousing-to-freezer’ shot looks especially wicked.  I’m in.  

They’re based on the same novel, dude. Apart from Villeneuve sticking closer to Herbert’s than Lynch (no weirding modules, more scenes with Duncan), it was inevitable that the two movies would share a lot of the same scenes and the same dialogue. And design-wise, both movies borrow heavily from John Schoenherr’s …

Dennis essentially just upgraded the special effects and copied David Lynch’s version (practically) shot for shot.