This season of AHS was a true return to form. The best season since Coven. 

Calling it. Eternals is going to be one of the greatest things the MCU has ever done. I’m going against the collective Internets wisdom.

No. The comma changes “extended” from a qualifier to a compound clause.

We saw an extended, 10-minute clip from the long-awaited James Bond movie...

I really want to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife, but unless things improve dramatically over the next couple of months (ha ha) I guess I’ll be waiting until it’s available via streaming somewhere. It’s the first movie that I’d consider paying the $30 or whatever premium streaming fee for.

Sinister Six fight, preferably OG Gobby, Doc Ock, Sandman, Electro, Rhino (cuz who don’t wanna see more Paul Giamatti?), and Vulture. No, I don’t want any more Mysterio. I’m glad he took a bullet to the head.

I want to see the movie and have fun. That’s all I’d normally ask.

But since you want us to go wild: I’d want a psychedelically deranged acid trip sequence where reality is so messed up, Parker and the villains keep shifting into multiple depictions of themselves, fighting across a chaotic landscape (like Dr. Strange’s…

I know you’re joking, but I’d happily pay to watch a cross of it’s a wonderful life and into the spiderverse. That sounds delightful. 

Hop’s character is all over the place. One minute he’s the tender, Eggo-dispensing guardian of 11, the next he’s got Cary Elwes’ finger in a cigar-cutter to get information about a plot he doesn’t even grasp yet, or he’s bullying tiny little Mike over some obviously innocent snogging.

Good genre fiction still requires good characters and good storytelling, if anything more so than in a story with a naturalistic setting.

I don’t think an homage to the 80’s excuses overly tropey story lines or weird shifts in tone. TWO infiltrations of a military base by separate child & adult-sized air vent tunnels might qualify as parody, but it doesn’t make it good.

Eh. At least this season was more ambitious than Season 2:“Oops we made a hit with no thought of where to take the story.” It’s infuriatingly close to being really good.

I loved the subplot with Steven and Robin, but the rest of the season felt like a diminished retread of things we have already seen. The period detail is far more on-the-nose than before, and the main narrative strays from scenes of everyday life much more quickly.

I’m blown away by the ballsiness of “While everyone remembers The Goonies’ full, very ‘80s-appropriate trailer...” being written by someone born at least a decade after the movie premiered.

Well people not born around that time really forget how 80's the 80's became and that initially there was no difference from the 70's. They think it was 1980 rolls around and BAMMMM SPANDEX AND NEON!!! Which is wrong, that didn’t show up till mid-80's and you can see the progression in movies like ET (1982) or Flight…

That Empire Endgame cover is explicitly fake, says so in the IG post that’s quoted... “Sidenote - this isn’t the official cover”

That’s a brilliant pitch! Gremlins on a Plane, perfect callback to the Twilight Zone episode. And then just when you think it’s gonna be a super contained thriller, you totally go massive with the reflecting pool and turn DC upside down.  Get that President Clamp continuity in there.  This is the best idea I’ve heard…

My understanding was that Gizmo was supposed to die/turn very early in the first one, but Spielberg talked them out of it. I’d like to see an extremely contained set piece that hearkens back to the madcap nature of Gremlins 2, but I agree the bulk of a third movie should shoot for the tone of the original.

Germain, you have to share Charles Villanueva’s EPIC Road to Infinity War supercut here on io9!

The sequel is much better.