I'd love it if they just went super old-school on all of Mysterio's SFX. Model work, wires, stop-motion, smoke, mirrors, the whole time-consuming, equally-unconvincing-but-in- a-different-way magilla.

I thought that was a fantastic touch that should have been obvious to a lifelong Spider-Man reader, but that I never saw coming. That Harry would become the Green Goblin was obvious, but that he'd take a face turn, even though that's what he did in the comics, was really nice.

It absolutely did fit the movie. It's the "Mirror, Mirror" version of the "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" bit that everyone loved in Spider-Man 2. Even the aggressive dick version of Peter Parker is a nerd, because Peter Parker is a nerd. That scene has never been one of my problems with Spider-Man 3.

I, on the other hand, WOULD go to the theater for this, but it isn't showing in any theaters, as far as I can tell, which is a disappointing thing to learn after reading a movie review.

Dude's accent still irritates me.

I agree with your conclusion, but there's only one way to "deserve" a solo movie: by convincing someone with money that you can sell tickets, and Wonder Woman has never EVER been able to do that.

I don't think it's really an area that gets much focus. It might help with confidence building, but at the end of the day, the person who wins the fight is going to be the first one whose friend shows up with a gun. I'd be willing to bet she's had more fight training as an actress

He did the voice for the Trickster in the DCAU as well, IIRC. His Joker always owed a lot to Cesar Romero.

Being the most upset about things, unfortunately, is how comic nerds determine their relative status in the tribe. It's what prevents us from ever really being arbiters of taste.

I prefer "HIS GAL FRIDAY."

That might be the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me.

This statement is in direct conflict with the one you just made. You said no one who has ever picked up a comic with S.H.I.E.L.D. in it could have formed a concept of the property like the ones expressed by Sava and Sims. You are on firmer ground now, saying that this is one of many possible treatments of…

That ALSO doesn't make it a good procedural. Joe Friday was as dull and flat as a worn out dime, but Dragnet is the Ur-procedural. A procedural walks the audience through a process. Almost by definition, the totally imaginary processes of an imaginary agency dealing with imaginary problems are going to be a tricky…

But they literally started a Damage Control style story last week, then threw that away five minutes in for the berzerker thing. I don't know if they can commit to doing that either.

I'm not making fun of them for that because they didn't do it in this episode and I want them to feel positively reinforced.

If all of those things are true, then the show dies a relatively quick heat death. It's detractors are catching criticism for allegedly reviewing the show that they want to see, rather than the one that they're watching, but that accusation cuts both ways. If there are a million perfectly understandable reasons why…

So when I saw Nick Fury crash through a wall on a rocket powered motorcycle after outrunning a nuclear bomb, and then go on to commandeer a giant robot gorilla used as a movie prop in order to fight off a Tyrannosaurus, that wasn't S.H.I.E.L.D., but Agents of B.E.I.G.E. sitting on a plane talking about God is??

If this didn't have Joss AND Marvel attached it would have never seen the light of day.

Thoughts on a second viewing:

To say nothing of Confrontational Checkout Clerk who was staring right in Vanisher's direction in the episode's only brightly-lit room, but still thought "SHE'S A WITCH!!"