The trailer kind of sucks, but I've enjoyed nearly everything Singer's put into the series so far. The trailer seems to suffer from extreme contemporary trailer-ism which is hard to lay at the feet of the movie.

I was indeed asking if the show improved after the first episode, as that is a very common thing to happen to TV shows. I'm glad you loved it and I'll try to do it as much as possible for you!

The thing about Psylocke is that she doesn't really need a lot of lines, and in a sequel with that many new cast members, they're probably better off without them.

I do like the idea of Cannonball's abilities, which seemed fun to draw, and I guess I'm kind of glad that Negasonic Teenage Warhead is going to be Cannonball in that one movie instead of a precognitive who dies instantly.

Yeah, the Externals, a group that inexplicably included Apocalypse, Cannonball the rocket hick and Selene the Robert Howard domme queen, then everyone else whom no one ever once cared about. It was right up there with that Wolverine story where everyone with super-smelling turns out to be descended from mutant dogs or…

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Yes. But I doubt we're getting a straight adaptation of any of it.

They really went back to the "change the crappy future" well over and over until it became impossible to remember who was from what timeline. I enjoyed the TV version, where the time travelers are a couple of roommates walking into the kitchen after each other over and over and moving everything around just the way…

I like it a lot, but I can't make excuses for much of it, especially the ending. It's one of those movies where I expect people to laugh at it when they watch it with me, around when the panel transitions start.

I was a little thrilled that they picked up the concept from the books that Steve Rogers is, for whatever reason, very good at cartooning, and introduced it without leaning out of the movie and winking at us. It's such a nice way to show that the guy had plenty going on before he managed to get anyone but his best…

Take all my symbolism, Dad! Into your Absorbing Manhole!

*makes a little bulletproof vest for you with "KILLJOY" on it*

I think Marvel's Thor is good for flying through space, fighting trolls, fighting big things on fire, acting out the Eddas in odd hats, and so on, while the comic sex appeal of a buff, hot, awkward pop-Shakespeare dude in the contemporary world could have waited for Avengers because you only really need a couple lines…

I thought you said that one of those guys always broke up with He-Man, and I thought, wow, not even He-Man, is nothing good enough for that guy?

I didn't like either movie much, but I liked the second movie better than the first, even though it made no sense, because it seemed determined to just tell its own (sloppy, meandering) story over in its corner and involve the "Thor" characters as needed. I don't remember the particulars either.

I have this mental version of Ant-Man where it's The Wasp and Paul Rudd's not in it and Lilly's character hires the gang for the first heist as an end run around her dad and the love story is a smart-mouthed odd-couple pairing between Lilly and Peña and everything makes tons more sense and is less boring.

WHO'S THE LITTLE MOUSE NOW?!

I think Avengers was a success at its project although I didn't like it much as a movie, because it did a good job of tying all these movies by Marvel's leashed-auteur types into something that piqued curiosity about how these musclehead characters saw each other.

Agreed, I was like, "here comes the 'Dune' montage"…

That first Captain America movie was the only Disney Marvel movie that I enjoyed at anywhere near the level of the Iron Man movies. It had a good idea of what it was trying to be, and how to be it and be entertaining about it. Winter Soldier suffered because it's just not possible to make a thriller out of a kids'…