Yeah, I remember singing “I hate you, you hate me, let’s get together and kill Barney” on the school bus in elementary school in the mid-90s, and I think distancing from “baby stuff” was part of it.

“When The Last Temptation of Christ had its world premiere at the Venice film festival, I was crossing the lobby of the Excelsior hotel on my way to an interview. Barney the Dinosaur and I saw each other from across the lobby, and he headed toward me to say hello and check in with me. He came near and then he hit a…

Fox News has already gone after Mister Rogers for preaching radical leftist ideology like “everyone matters” to children.

I wonder how Martin Scorsese feels about Barney the Dinosaur.

“Black Adam is the film that will have audiences saying ‘Black Adam.’”

Or - and hear me out - kids just thought it was funny? I don’t think most of the hate came from adults, but teenagers discovering how to be edgy.

K.E.V.I.N. Can Feige Himself

I agree that Jen defying and retconning a cluttered, predictable ending leads to a cluttered, rushed ending instead, but yeah overall I forgive it. Skewering K.E.V.I.N. and the algorithmically-designed finales earned this episode a LOT of goodwill for me.

Blonsky should have been either in on the Intelligencia, or…

Jennifer said in the first episode that it wouldn’t be a typical Marvel show. She outright edited her own show to prevent it from turning into the usual bloated ending mess. Honestly it’s great that she was able to use the fourth wall to retcon a season-wide plot.

True. She realized this was her show and just shut down that plotline.

I admire Jessica Gao’s restraint in not titling this episode “KEVIN Can F**k Himself.” 

You said exactly what I have in mind. People have been taking Marvel WAY too seriously now, it’s gotten very toxic.

The show pretty perfectly captured the She-Hulk comics IMO - this is the exact sort of thing you can imagine happening there.

I enjoyed it a lot. I think a lot of people are waaaay overthinking this show which is for the most part a breezy comedy with feminist theory snuck in here and there. I enjoyed her absolutely obliterating the fourth wall more completely than anyone since Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles. This was super fun. This is not…

Yes and no. We all go in fully aware what the ultimate outcome will be in 99% of films, but a good story will draw you in so that in the moment you’re so invested it feels they’re in peril anyway.

That’s probably the “inconsistent internal logic” and “brooding anti-hero” stuff bleeding through.

One of the reactions are calling it “Snyder-esque”. Yea no thanks. 

“it wasn’t as good as i had hoped, but was better than i had feared. somewhere between 2 and 9.”

It’s simplistic but probably would be closer to the truth than you think. A good project lead who knows how to coordinate multiple different teams and handle competing desires on a single project is often invaluable and Kaplan was definitely one of those from all accounts.

I feel horribly for the OW team itself still, but good lord...was Kaplan really the glue holding it all together? I know it’s likely more complicated than that and it’s extremely rare one person has that much influence on a project worked on by hundreds but like...damn man.