I’ll be the only one here who agrees with you, I’m sure. But man, I have never bought into this show. Shallow can be fun, no immediate examples come to mind but there are multitudes, but I found this laughably bare of anything resembling story, character arc, or fun. Cartoons have more weight (Filoni’s in particular)…

Still waiting for Mando to be “good stuff” 

It’s amazing how quickly people will jump on something like this. Love and Thunder came out less than a year ago. Taika hasn’t released a movie in 8 months? He’s obviously being shut out of the industry. I mean, he’s got half a dozen upcoming projects listed on IMDB and is currently involved in three different TV…

Weren’t we all saying the same thing circa-Ultron and then eventually pieces came together and it was great? I think there are some rose colored glasses on about how great the MCU used to be that is feeding some of this.

So since like ‘84-’85 when the first Secret Wars came out?

After enough existential threats to humanity are presented and defeated, more of the same becomes stale.

To the extent that there’s a “dip” (I don’t know, don’t follow box office, don’t care), a likely culprit would be the same thing that hit the comic books awhile back: event fatigue.

I mean personally I’m way more stoked for multiversal shenanigans, Kang, the whole MCU getting ripped apart and put back together, etc... than I was for Iron Man 2 or whatever you’re being nostalgic about.

It’s out already!?!?! I still haven’t see the butthole cut

They feed off a mineral called can’tgetitite.

Gone with the Wind deserves to be the biggest film of all time, because it follows all the rules that cinephiles agree are immutable characteristics of a great movie:

On Pandora they are called milli’pedes

Damn Cat People 2 has more legs than a millipede.

For a community that’s fighting for acceptance and inclusion, they sure seem to be taking a page from the people they say are oppressing them.

Rowling has explicitly stated that she considers support for the HP franchise to be support for her and, by extension, for her transphobia. Given that Star Wars is now firmly in Disney’s hands and has been in the hands of many other people, it would be harder for Lucas to lay claim to the franchise in the same way.

Except JKR still has creative control over the franchise, so its not quite the same thing.

hmmm, interesting comparison, although I think that George Lucas explicitly selling the franchise to Disney (he still gets royalties??) could hypothetically softer the impact a lot more. It would amount to Disney doing some damage control, and further emphasizing how separate GL is from SW, I think.

Hearing that the game is a very bog-standard “AAA” release just makes the garbage people championing it to own the libs look all the sillier.

I did read the whole thing but I’m still not getting it, but it looks like you don’t actually think SAO should be here so we’re good hahaha

You lost me at being confused about why SAO isn’t here. You know this is a top 30, right?