I haven’t seen this episode yet, but Ms. Marvel is the first MCU show I’ve seen where the non-superhero parts are compelling enough to make the supe stuff seem generic and dull by comparison, so this tracks. 

I dont understand, you are saying that the box office is not representative of peoples viewing habits?

“What can be done about the MCU at this point?”

As a QA for 9 years, I must say that there are too many times that I have received a deadline before the written requirements.

Yeah, I don’t think anyone is trying to defend this particular piece. It was mindboggling bad and indicates that a lot of people up the quality assurance chain at Marvel are just awful at their jobs.

But to make the assertion that non-black people shouldn’t be hired to write a black character is, I think, far from a…

He should be criticized for his work, and his identity is inseparable from that criticism. What’s concerning is the implication that he shouldn’t have ever been hired in the first place because he was not Black.

Kathleen Kennedy made two of the four best-received Star Wars movies in a mostly mediocre franchise to the tune of, adjusted for inflation, two of the three most commercially successful movies in the franchise. So by blame, I guess, huge praise for doing her job even if prequel movie fans won’t stop trying to rewrite…

It’s an interesting idea, but the reality is there is no possible way we could safely coexist with animals that large and vicious. They would destroy most ecosystems and cause all manner of destruction. We current live with all kinds of dangerous apex predator species because they keep to their habitats where we stay…

Same deal with with interest in Star Wars. I heard through the grapevine that he took Episode 9 because, in his words, it would be “good for his career.” (And his leaked screenplay very tellingly read like someone who’d just boned up on sourcebooks.)

I mean, the best metric you can probably use when trying objectively look at any art is whether or not the artist was successful in what they were trying to do. I doubt if you asked Colin Trevorrow or the guys behind morbius if they wanted to make very dumb movies that could be appreciated for effects and/or the…

Look! Look! We got a Last Jedi hater here! We got Last Jedi hater!  See?  Nobody cares.

I think the most likely scenario is that they are focusing so much on the fighting that this mode will feel like an afterthought. At worst, the mode will be one of those things that people look at and say, “Meh... that was pretty janky and weird, but at least Capcom prioritized the fighting mechanics.”

Although I think I get your point, I feel just using Black as a synonym for African-American is a very American centric viewpoint and perhaps undersells other black cultures

Oh, I saw Agents of SHIELD.

The Darkhold corrupts everyone who reads it. Even Life Model Decoys. 

Did they finally solve the issue with the Sonic 3 music rights?

Hot take is probably pushing it, there are plenty of people who dig those games and might agree, but it’s a little spicy for me. I dunno, I like those games (most of them, I hate the first Rush) but stacking them up against the games in this bundle feels almost unfair. Dimps were just okay at Sonic level design at…

Gotta pay the animators somehow!

You forgot that Anniversary mode also includes full on animated cutscenes linking not just the various zones together, but the games themselves in one extra large story. There’s also the ability to play as Knuckles or Tails alone or together in all of the games, including Sonic 1 and CD.