That's only because most music fans are cunts that have no idea of what they're talking about. Julian's first solo album alone is vastly better, more inventive, more plaintive, more philosophical, and definitely mo betta sexy than anything in Adams' catalog. Adams has plenty talent, but none of them exceed his taste…

You can also do that with black cardamom. Whoa.

Look, Hank, I feel you. I miss him like crazy. But I think the old man knows we miss him, and is using that for his own crazed new ends. I don't know quite what those ends are yet, but when in Twin Peaks—or anywhere in the Lynchverse—have we known where we were going as we went there? This is the first time Lynch has…

In the can, a lot of the capsicum from the pith diffuses into the pepper, but you can still bring the level down a little if you get all the webbing out from inside (note: just de-seeding won't do it).

Further: those scenes where his fitness and combat chops get fetishized, plus his own affection for badges, all feel less like teases about his full return and more about contemplations on our own taste for ass-kicking peace warriors to me.

It sure feels like we're being asked 'why do you want Cooper back so badly?' In our universe, it's for nostalgia, which is a big seller in our pop culture moment but one senses is not Lynch's passion (other than the bigger nostalgia for a mythic pure 50's-esque universe that drives so much of his stuff). In the Twin…

Oh, dope! Glad you dug it. His name is Nicholas Pope, and he would be delighted to hear your compliment, as he tends to toil in obscurity, but without his weird wizardry that shit would not have flown. Also, he is a mega-mensch, one of the Earth's great souls.

One of my main homies designed the sound for it. The playable spaces, and the requirements to make sound make sense in those spaces, are fucking *bonkers*. It was so nuts, and so improbable that it would work, that many lamented that sound design no longer receives a Tony, and I'm told there's a movement to reinstate…

Disliking that level of modesty would be the intended audience reaction, and would give the franchise some of its feminist sting. 'We SWEAR it's just *superheroes* the Earth isn't ready for, NOBODY has a problem with the first one being a woman, Carol, I mean when it's time it'll be so INSPIRING!' quoth some DoD…

I would argue that the Thor comics' relationship to Norse myth is…not committed to depth, and the movies take only like the fifth derivative even of the comics.

There's an opportunity here to solve the 'where's she been since the 90s' problem with cool riffs on the need for quiet containment on the Fury/squares-in-charge side vs. the desire to shine and be a wondrous inspiration on the Danvers/feminism side. The film could end with Danvers reluctantly consenting to remain a…

For sure—though I'd add that another ingredient in their respective fates was always whether the property had any richness in it, and whether the productions tapped into it. Guardians didn't but Gunn added his own; Iron Man had some, sorta, and they found it intermittently, sorta; Thor has little and they struggled to…

Can someone sell me on Captain Marvel? I'm alllll the fuck for more chicks in the treehouse—but is there any thematic richness or big heart here? The MCU space stuff, aside from the odd moment of Silver Surfer, Lonesome Poet, or the new Guardians-as-MCU-Firefly, usually leaves me cold.

I'm not writing it off, I just wonder how cool Skulls can be. They invade! They change shape! The end. Maybe the paranoid, friends-are-enemies angle could work, but that's better suited to 70s spy jams like Cap 2 than the space-zapping Kree-Skrzzzzzzzzz

Where's the hook? I feel villains must be rooted in the philosophical marrow of a hero character; otherwise, it's all just excuses for punching. The vague threatiness of this villain threatens only to expose CM as not being about much.

I accept your challenge and will meet you with AK-47s at dawn.

Please don't let there be any reason to think he suffered from CTE and his brain is being donated to research.

'Complacency' implies an absence of urgency or effort that I don't think can be gleaned from my comments.

Equating the fuckedness of the present with that of the past risks diminishing the experience of those who were fucked in the past. I doubt you'd prefer the armed conflicts of 1917 to now, the civil rights battles of the 60s to now, even Winston Churchill's view of Indians to Trump's view of Islam.

Did we need to be assured eight different times in the article that the author TOTALLY believed the comment was obnoxious? Is that to make sure the virtue badge is plainly visible, or to protect himself in case he's accused of defending the outrageous homophobe?