They'll manage to work it in, just watch. It'll be something like, "This character doesn't look like he's described in the book. This is much like Idris Elba playing any character, because I'm not racist."

Poorly and hastily!

This stuff has to be an unintended burn on the audience given McDuffie's Hawkgirl and her 5-season arc to establish her independence from the shitty debacle that the Hawkman story has always been in every incarnation.

To a Hollywood producer, that's for cowards.

All those things in the headline go well together. And far away from me.

Beyond just the suggestion that maybe all of the Antichrist business can be explained by coincidence and overactive imaginations, there's the suggestion that, okay, maybe it's real, but maybe the kid is a victim, not a villain, and he'll pull through in the end. Which is one big reason the last scene has such an…

From the very year that followed the year when Capone died!

Stephen King's analysis, hmm. Doesn't recommend it much.

'okay'

The cool mom.

Fiction begets truth begets fiction. The Church of Satan, no strong believers in any supernatural entity by that name, adopted "Ave Satani" into their own rites, after their founder claimed (unconvincingly) to have played the figure in darkness in "Rosemary's Baby".

But… there are good adaptations where directors give the same edict. I hate to repeat myself, but all the objections to this always strike me as totally beside the point.

But there are good adaptations where directors give the same edict.

I think the old saw about "don't review the film that wasn't made" is bunk. Counter-factuals are necessary to judge a film on its merits, its intent or whatever axis you find important.

The weirdest criticism of the movie to me was, "Mara said Trank told her not to read the source material". Fans went apeshit over that. As though that weren't a dictate handed down by various directors while handling adaptations both good and bad.

*tiny violin plays*

Admiral Piett: Wow, like, no one knew who was in charge after that? We should have a clearer chain of command.

Pfft, you can't use someone else's line. That's so gauche.

I always feel just the tiniest bit bad for the truly unlucky ones, no matter how rich or famous they may be. A good example is Ryan Reynolds, who spent much of the years leading up to Deadpool starring in quirky, odd flops that looked much better on paper.

That's pretty much been the plot of Spider-Man for fifty years.