She had zero worldbuilding. Her entire setting didn’t make sense — why would people with magical powers basically obsess over their fake Eton? Like nothing else mattered -- not university nor careers. A.S. Byatt got a lot of grief when she wrote that in Tolkien the rivers ran and the trees grew and that the same…

You make the snitch 30 points and put a 60 minute time limit.

It reads like one of those deliberately quirky things that Rowling just threw in there as a laugh and a bit of world building, but then she got weirdly obsessed with it, so we ended up with pages and pages devoted to a nonsense game. And the annoying part is you could tweak it into something sensible pretty easily. The…

I only read up through Goblet of Fire, and I remember thinking it would have to be a very lopsided game prior to the snitch being caught for anything else to matter. And why does nothing score 1 point instead of a common multiple?

I’m reading the books for the first time.

Even curling?

All sports are stupid nonsense when you get right down to it.

Because “normal sports” aren’t also just “shit we played as kids we just want to keep doing”.

Is it really necessary to call it stupid and a sad excuse for a hobby? I mean, dudes are out there riding sticks, tossing balls and looking to be having fun. Hell, they even went so far as to have uniforms. Let em bang, bro.

Based on the trailer, the plot seems to be basically every Viking related TV show/movie/video game I’ve ever seen smashed together. But it has Ana Taylor Joy so I’m definitely seeing it.

Even if they tried to cast someone else, who wants that job?

Grounding Toomes in a very real setting helped sell him as the villain so much. When you see him as the leader of a gang of crooks, he’s menacing; when you see him as Liz’s suburban dad, he’s terrifying.

Imagine Michael Keaton threatening Tobey Maguire in a car-ride to the prom. You’d expect Tobey’s Peter to say, “You’ll be hearing from my attorney, sir!”

I feel like Spiderman’s native aesthetic is close to anime (or animation in general), in the sense that he has such a sense of movement that live action versions feel plodding. The Sam Raimi movies feel too heavy to do the character justice, and they also don’t capture the playfulness of the character very well - They…

Spider-Man 2 may be arguably the best movie, but I still like Tom Holland as the best Spiderman. He seems most like a typical teenager.

AMS was wrong to retell the origin story, but there’s no way it’s worse than AMS2. Haven’t seen the most recent one, but the first two Tom Holland ones should be ahead of the first Raimi Spiderman, even if it’s the more important film.

This is such a lily white man thing to say. 

The Garfield ones were ... okay.

Much as I originally liked 1 & 2, and thought Maguire was good, for me those just don’t hold up. Yeah, there were, very few wisecracks; at one time he calls the Green Goblin “Gobby” during a fight and it’s jarring since it wasn’t a thing we’d gotten from him before. Also I really really hated the organic web thing.…

I’d put Homecoming ahead of Spider-Man 1—if nothing else we need to recognize that Holland is immensely more suited for the role than the already-pushing-30-at-the-time Maguire—but it’s hard to argue with Spider-Verse and Spider-Man 2 as the top two. Now I'd just like a spin-off sitcom about the misadventures of Jake…