The alliance they formed on the show set them up so it didn’t really matter, and that’s part of what keeps them close I’m sure. How smart they were to realize how good they had it at the time.

I needed to hear from Malala Yousafzai and the other ardent fans sharing their dependence on the show; it’s not bad to know that those 236 episodes are basically free therapy for the lonely or depressed.

Rock and roll was a big break from swing; it’s hard for some people to love Elvis and Sinatra. Maybe Bucky’s just more on the jazz tip. He was out before teenagers were a thing.

She’s reason enough for me to see it, if I find it on cable.

I’m the last Snyder fan, but the revisions weren’t all pointless. Enhancing Cyborg and Aquaman (by bringing in Mera and Vulko earlier), and letting the Amazons have their rituals and procedures and gravity were all good steps that the first film glossed over. Why did WW deliver the killing blow? A) she had a sword; B)…

But his “artistic vision!?”

It had brighter colors, and Steppenwolf was slightly more of a mansplainer to the Amazons. Otherwise, this one surprised me by being mostly coherent, and not spending as much time on Superman as a zombie revenant.

I think they’re doing a great job; the 2nd book was a slog to read at points, too. A historian’s complete indulgence (what if you could meet Famous XXX? over and over and over). But Diana’s journey towards her own power set with the Elizabethan witches are compelling scenes, and Kit Marlowe is a very good tragic…

Yeah, there was no void to fill. But I usually like where they go, I’ll give it a try. I liked Ministry once.

No, Sniffy.

IIRC from the book, the Matthew of the past sort of disappears when the one from the present travels back; the time continuum sort of takes care of itself, you find out more about this from Diana’s father later on, who also time travels. At any rate, I’m enjoying Season 2 just fine, especially all the period costumes…

Tommy and Billy can go to school? But what they’re enacting in all these cases is not the literal sitcom, but a hybrid of period references and a sensibility of the era. So I’d throw in the Travolta/Curtis Perfect movie and Jane Fonda videos for the 80s, just as the 70s had vestiges of Stepford Wives and chauvinist…

And some people (who aren’t into Westerns I guess) just found the Mandalorian boring and predictable. I suppose the current ideal is to have all the Easter eggs and tell a broad appeal story at the same time (as the MCU movies mostly did, even GotG; as HBO’s Watchmen did) but as I can’t unknow everything I know about…

That she was fan-casted in the role she now has years before is pretty amazing.

I don’t think it’s all that superficial. The MCU Wanda and Vision draw a lot on the comics, and not the most recent ones either. There love story is from the 1970s, and ended badly in the 1980s. Both characters have been a bit lost since then. The movies have been pretty clear that Wanda is a heroine, not a villain,…

Then you’re missing the identification of the villain (which is an opinion rather than a spoiler), the judgment on the increasingly strident sitcom affectations, the condemnation of 70s style, the characterization of Wanda’s erratic actions, and a very strong aversion to the couch.

Well, the twins are born on camera, but not in any way approximating realism.

Which means Let’s Get Physical, and maybe Saved by the Bell? Square Pegs? Breakfast Club?

No, Vision has super-strength, super-speed, flight, a lazer beam and the ability to control his density. He holds his own with Thor or Iron Man, and has eluded capture by Wonder Man (who also has a similar set of physical powers). He’s a synthezoid Superman. He likely cannot outrun Pietro, though.

Are there such people? The Tippi outfit showed up on Bob’s Burgers the next night, and you can buy a Barbie wearing it.