This is exactly right and a much more eloquent way of getting at what I was saying. There are occasionally legitimate warm, human moments, but only a couple of times a season and more often than not, it’s an interesting experiment in surreality.

Is that guy pearce?

...there are countries other than America?

Can’t wait. It’s such a unique show that by it’s nature can’t quite cohere into something I love, but by that same token, is always surprising and creative. 

This can’t be true right...they should be on Hulu with the rest of FX’s lineup but I don’t have Disney+ to check. 

Steve Buscemi, Keanu Reeves, Mr. Rogers (R.I.P.), David Mitchell, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Styles all could do this to my wedding and I’d gladly allow it.

I realized just now that whenever a narrator is references, I do the voice as Ron Howard. 

Yup. And we also pretend, without thinking at all about the implications, that a work of art’s value is entirely dependent on who its audience is. 

Visually it’s a clear masterpiece and one of the best sci-fi films in years. In terms of story and character, I wished it was a little lighter on its feet. If you shoot everything with the same awed reverence, at a certain point you cease to care (or at least I ceased to care). I’d have sacrificed a lot of scenes of…

For it to be a joke, they’d need to undercut it at some point and they don’t. Instead they end the trailer at a fever pitch by letting the audience fill in an unspoken catchphrase (like Kirk saying ‘To bold go...’)

This feels weird.

Pfft, pure hyperbole, you said the same thing when I was going out for cigarettes yesterday.

Glad to see this isn’t a repeat of the reception Blade Runner 2049 received. Haven’t seen it yet, but my love for the cast and Villeneuve makes me happy the deserving parties have gotten a win. 

As noted to the other comments correctly noting my mistake, I am entirely off-base here. Not sure how I got it so wrong (apart from relying on personal impression instead of bothering to look it up), but either way, you’re totally right!

You are totally right. I honestly thought it had done tepidly but in retrospect that’s so far off base, I’m not sure what I was thinking of. 

It’s interesting to see Marvel retool as it goes. Black Panther is a huge hit and the role of Wakanda is emphasized in projects. Captain Marvel is a mild failure and they clearly cut down her role in Endgame. I wonder, if this flops at the box office, whether they might find a way to simply ignore the Eternals…

Plus the Inhumans have a history of vaguely interesting characters and stories (I do say vaguely). But that show ruined our chances of ever seeing any of that on screen. 

I stand by fambly. Vin Diesel will probably use it as part of a new catch phrase. 

It’d be more interesting to do a sci-fi film that reveals itself as a prequel at the end by explaining the area 51 thing (and maybe also those stupid robots).

Indeed, a more fair question would be, what compelling reason did the creators have to make this? If the creators themselves at best were hoping to make a bad idea less bad in the execution, I think you can fairly complain there was no reason to make it. But again, whether any audience wanted it or not is irrelevant.