Counterpoint: Manhattan was tired of being a god. He wanted the chance to live a normal life again, for the time he could. After which he wanted to die, and pass on his gift to someone he thought might use it better, and circumstances presented him with the opportunity.

Unnecessary shade, Miles Morales and Jessica Jones did pretty well outside of a “creative vacuum”. It’s more of an acceptable TV actor vs Movie Actor thing as well as the payment/contracts involved with the fame that gives than anything to do with the character itself.

I think it’s perfectly fine for Daisy to have so much power and so flexible a power. She is more or less the only ‘big gun’ SHIELD has outside of Yoyo, and it would be a strain to say she hasn’t earned this grasp over her power over the last several seasons. She can’t be everywhere and solve everything, and there’s…

The punks were horrible, but the base idea: “Other telepaths with different powers” isn’t inherently bad, that’s where it seemed like S2 was going for its solution rather than El does everything again.

It still doesn’t make much sense WHY Mac is the leader anyway. He made some very questionable choices during/around the framework arcs. To have the main reason be “he’s religious and therefore has a superior moral compass” *barf*

At the start of the show no one really believed legends of the white walkers anyway, so it never really did outside of the year or so people knew. It is basically a prison sentence or exile.

There’s an interview where they basically said “We had no idea when this would air, so we played it safe and it happens entirely pre-snap”. They couldn’t risk spoiling Endgame. They really had no good options.

Yes, the timeline doesn’t make sense, but logistically they didn’t have much choice.

I think the ravens were Brann revealing himself to the nightking and baiting him.

Yeah the Night King is a weakspot present in the apocolypse, but it’s well established. Really there was no way for it not to be that ‘convenient’ because the dude can raise everyone who fails to kill his forces. His army would’ve just been unstoppable and the show would have ended with him ending the world.

For the sake of mending alternate timelines created from their removal. But the important distinction is that those created timelines don’t ‘override’ the one we care about. They exist separately.

Their version of time-travel avoids ALL ripples. The past we know cannot change. You can lift objects and people from the past, but it won’t Flashpoint your established history away like it was nothing.

I think it’s one of the better implementations of time-travel really, because you don’t want to invalidate everything…

There’s an interview floating around where the showrunners pitched killing Quinton to the original author, he was excited and giving ideas for all the ramifications and potential plots spawning off that.

The thematic throughline of the luncheon and lesson being that “We should be working together not competing” makes me wonder if they’re going to go for some poly ending. It’d be genuinely bizzare and kind of a cop-out of forcing Rebecca to chose, but brave in its own way.

Expanding on this, I think it would be a great show for discussion too, since most episodes went some dark and interesting places with social commentary and character studies while also being hilarious.

This show was the one I enjoyed most this season. I hope Season 2 can get some episode-coverage here, because it totally deserves it.

It wasn’t cancelled, its story was pitched as 4 seasons, and this is the 4th season. They let it reach the end when it had no business making it based on old rating metrics.

If only the writers of the original flash had put ANY limits on his power at all you could handwave these things, but I don’t blame these writers for struggling to create dramatic stakes for a character who is basically a god.

Except.. that flashback episode was one of the best of the season so... completely forgiven for me anyway.

It’s weird to say but I think this show is the only I’ve seen of the surprisingly many shows with gay characters recently that ACTUALLY reflects the internal conflict and emotional state.

Even if the world is more accepting and positive, a lot of shows erase the conflict of it entirely in pure sugar-coated acceptance…

He’s been around the comedy and podcast scene for a while, he’s consistently delightful.