$225.5 million seems like a quarter billion to me.

Hey, remember when there was a show on television called Game of Thrones and we all thought it was pretty much the most important piece of media in decades? Me neither.

If they say something like, ‘she brought him back with her powers’, that’s hand-waving. It’s lazy and convenient.

You are aware, of course, that Marx never said or wrote any such thing?

That said, the “timeline” is kind of BS anyways. It didn’t really even exist until like 15 years ago and wasn’t public until 2011.

If a series is just a bunch of standalone things with familiar names and faces copy/pasted onto it, I’m just not interested. (Looking at you, Super Mario Bros. 2 . . .)

Jordan’s only upgrade to Tolkien was to include women and PoC, but not being sexist was too much?

At the moment of creation, the Creator imprisoned the Dark One (the Devil/Morgoth, right?) outside creation. He made the Wheel of Time, which governs the universe. It has 7 spokes, each spoke is an age, as an age passes it fades in memory to legend, then myth, then is forgotten when the age comes again. The unnamed…

Red herring. The weaknesses in your original point exposed, you’ve shifted not only to a new argument but an entirely different issue. Your new argument’s not any more solid, incidentally, but I also won’t be baited into changing the subject.

False equivalence. A straight, white A-lister with their pick of jobs taking a role as minority character in a big studio film when very few of those opportunities exist for actors of that identity isn’t even a little bit the same thing as a person of a minority identity playing a character of majority identity, for…

Oh well thank you for the concern. Without wanting to burden anyone too much, it’s still a long ride. She was pregnant by the time they found it, so they couldn’t operate until she’d carried him far enough along. But then as she was recovering from the delivery she developed a pulmonary embolism, so now we’re in the…

My wife was diagnosed with BPPV a couple years ago, and then, right in the thick of the quarantine months, it started becoming persistently worse and then other symptoms began to emerge. Turns out she has a slow-growing brain tumor pushing on the cerebellum and fourth ventricle, affecting balance before going on to…

I though MoS was somewhere between fine and good—the intense hate was definitely an internet groupthink thing—and I didn’t like BvS much, but my reasons were more about narrative structure and storytelling than they were tone. But yeah, even when he’s making a good argument about Zack Snyder, he’s really only arguing…

Eh, the vast majority of the times he makes an argument for why making grittiness the norm is bad, he basically says “the norm used to be that comics were for kids, if grittiness becomes the norm, then kids won’t have as much comics media to consume.” Which...isn’t any kind of obvious moral or aesthetic reason not to…

I always knew Mickey was a Narc.

I hope part of their conversation touched on how trilogies of movies should have some producers plotting out the major beats of a narrative that runs through all three films. If you don’t want your character being centered in some movies of a series and sidelined in others, it’s not great to have two directors of…

The interior decorators:

Now, I’m not American so I may be wrong, but Hawaii is aUS state, right? So by definition, every citizen of Hawaii is an American, right? And thus shouldn’t it be more accurate to say “out of state tourist” or “continental tourist?”

Gamora will turn up in Guardians 3, mixed up with Adam Warlock who is heavily hinted to figure prominently in the film. That will echo comics storylines that introduce Warlock, where he has a slightly more villainous Gamora as his companion, and it will give the chance for lots of comedic chest-puffing from Starlord…

I have never understood why this movie got as much hate as it did. I think it might have just been one of those early-internet hivemind pile-ons that has now become conventional wisdom because no one goes back and watches it again (when a lot of good stuff emerges, as you say).