A true conundrum. Very fine people on both sides.

That wasn’t a serious recommendation. Reading Julian Simon would only enrage you. Another example of an economist coming along and setting us all straight on environmental issues.

Human ingenuity. Human ingenuity will deliver. Along with completely unregulated markets, of course. No possible limits to growth with those two in your corner.

True that

No. Or if she is, the film decides not to show such an event happening, which seems like a choice the film would not decide to do.

What hurts it here is that there’s this big attempt to keep it secret (Ramonda is about to tell Shuri about it on the beach before Namor interrupts) but there’s no real hints at it beyond that one moment.

afaik a good storytelling advise is “show, don’t tell” and that’s imho what happened here. Sure, they could have had a poster or one of those unnerving narrated diary entries, instead they dedicated a whole arc of the movie to how Shuri fucks up being a leader due to her grief and trauma.
That’s not bad writing, that…

Yes and? How does that matter? Did you not notice there are a ton of tribes around?

You can see the cracks where they had to work around Wight’s unavailability and likely challenges with getting Freeman and Dreyfus where they needed to go due to COVID travel restrictions.

I enjoyed it. I have issues with the pacing and wish the film was able to have been restructured a bit more after Boseman’s passing—the intent was obviously for Namor and T’Challa to face off as equals. And the CIA and Riri stuff was so obviously tacked on to the film. But this film was at its best when engaging with…

It’s weird that the implication is that if one could just get double the oxygen, they’d become super strong.

“Second, Shuri’s decision to leave Wakanda and the throne is not given sufficient justification - sure, go mourn T’challa with Nakia, but why aren’t you coming back? Why are you giving M’baku the throne? It is not nensensical,”

NOPE. No, just cannot let this stand. C’mon. We got PLENTY of explanation and not everything…

I object, I loved this portrayal of Namor. It fits the general mythology of the MCU and he is a great counter to Thor’s entzauberte northern deities, bringing the magic back, the grace and force of nature-ness that should be there when engaging gods.
Due to his powers and age, he feels more like a god in the true…

From a sorta meta standpoint, they need to kill Angela Bassett so that when Shuri takes the herb, we expect to see *her* in the Ancestral Plane. We the audience *know* it can’t be T’Challa because the actor’s dead. By having Shuri expect to see her mother, it makes the reveal of Killmonger more impactful.

Drying Namor out has been his weakness for years.  I don't think it's a weakness now though

The big market for this and all synthetic pRBC substitutes is militaries around the world. They are the ones that might need large volumes of RBC’s for a lot of people at short notice and a shelf stable, transportable supply would be worth a lot to them. They are likely to buy up a huge amount when it first becomes…

Compare io9s sandman coverage (which never got a proper review) with something like stranger things which gets wall to wall coverage for weeks before and after a season releases on netflix. for such a revered work in the nerd space io9 supposedly occupies the articles you linked to feel like crumbs. It gave me the…

I was more than pleasantly surprised. I was stunned at how much it either followed, or improved upon what my imagination had added to what was already such a vivid fantasy collection.

I loved it.

Fantastic news! As someone who wasn't familiar with the original material, this is the best damn show all year. I'm so glad we're getting more.