I watched the first season. It’s pretty grim. Competitive cheer is insanely dangerous, and it’s hard to see what most of the people on that team are going to do with their lives once (junior) college cheer is over.

Alright, the tankies have weighed in.

I’d say Hangman is 50% Maverick (as far as his perceived reliability goes) and 50% Iceman (bit of a bully but comes good in the end - also looks just like him)

Agreed. Rooster’s issue is he’s TOO conservative and won’t let his full abilities off the chain because he doesn’t want to end up like his dad.

I’m guessing she still had to do the work that was cut, and now she won’t appear in this tentpole Marvel production that would raise her profile quite nicely. The 7 mil will no doubt cushion this disappointment though.

After Yang is... not good. This review mostly sums up my feelings about it better than I would be able to. https://jacobin.com/2022/03/after-yang-contemplative-sci-fi-kogonada-film-review

Agreed. I think it would have been much better if he hadn’t cast himself as the lead. I know he’s really young and sort of learning on the job, and he seems to have some real talent that I hope he develops, but I think it’s mostly behind-the-camera talent.

I felt the same way with RRR, I actually only started watching because my girlfriend will put on really long Netflix movies to prevent her laptop from going to sleep when she’s running code (it’s a work laptop, she can’t install Caffeine or something). I caught one of the early sequences, and ended up watching the…

I think you make an interesting point. I think about the movie The Secretary with Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader in a BDSM relationship. There is hardly any actual sex in the movie in yet, it is sexy as hell and fully BDSM.

She plays a normal awful person in Shining Vale, but yeah, she pretty much exists as a hatesink.

Thanks for the show’s description.

“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. AND LOLA!”

First saw the blue arm and thought it was confirmed kree, then when they said ‘djinn’ I wondered if the kree thing was a mislead and the blue arm was a slightly distasteful nod towards Robin Williams genie in ALADDIN

I am personally beyond livid at an audience that refuses to watch this show because of <insert fucking stupid reason>.  There is VERY little justifiable reason to not watch this show if you have spent the time to watch the other MCU shows and movies.  It’s not the best of the bunch, but if you sat and suffered through…

The moment that I especially enjoyed: when the East Asian bride and the South Asian bride take just a second in their distress to admire each other and tell each other how beautiful they look.

They’re trying to make their way home, and needs the bangle to do so. In fact, as Aisha says, “he” said they would need two. Who is he?

It was a little jarring just how quickly Najima moved from being friendly to Kamala to ok-let’s-kill-her-and-anyone-else-who-happens-to-be-in-the-vicinity.
Like, they’ve been here for 100 years, but then she says they don’t have time to wait? Why don’t they have time? Is there some cosmic multiversal alignment or…

Kind of funny that they point out the British looting and then reveal that Kamala is descended from a group created by a British writer/artist.

I want this show to do good because it is not the normal mold but it just looks so unappealing to me. Her powers are just straight up uninspired and boring.

I’ll be honest, Clan Destine was not a reference i was EVER expecting to see, but it’s certainly a nice way to shoe-horn in a Djinn reference...