I think Snyder just missed the subtext he was supposed to be going for there, probably taken up with his desire to showing bad ass fighting. Obviously the Amazons and Atlanteans were serious about guarding the Motherboxes, but the desperation and difficulty of a conflict that would inspire that level of fear does not…

The flashback sequence has a very similar feeling to the opening of Fellowship of the Ring, where they showed the battle where Sauron loses the ring. Except in that sequence, Sauron is practically winning that battle single-handedly until a lucky swipe by Isildur does him in.

I haven’t gotten to the end of the Snyder cut (up to part 3), but I don’t think it was a good look that Darkseid’s proper introduction during the Age of Heroes flashback sequence was him getting his ass kicked.   

Those are the main subplots that were cut, but it’s not just that. There are just longer takes, incidental scenes, and more supporting cameos of similar sequences from what Whedon retained. All those types of restored edits add up when combined with the subplots that were just excised entirely.

He also wears it for that one arc in McFarlane’s adjectiveless Spider-Man when he needs to be stealthy before realizing he should have minimized the giant white spider image on it.  

Thanks, as always. I was reading comics (including Secret Wars) at the time, but I always remembered Peter’s tenure in the black suit lasting more than just the single month...

Why does everyone want the Fox X-Men to be integrated into the MCU? As much as I love some of those films, I really want to see an original MCU driven take, with the same fealty that they’ve brought to the rest of their adaptations.  

I was a bit disappointed that the fifth one made Will and Elizabeth’s ending sadder.  Perhaps I just misunderstood the ending of the third one, but I thought once she waited the first time the curse would be broken, not that they’d basically spend the rest of their lives only seeing each other once a decade.  

I always give The Lone Ranger a pass mostly for its action sequences. Whatever else was wrong with that film, it’s extremely effective when it forgets its plot and just has everyone jumping around the ludicrous set pieces.

I think you’re referring to the ‘95 reunion special, which gathered the first four casts with an audience Q&A. Puck and Judd got into a very heated exchange and then Puck and Mohammed almost came to blows before Puck moved somewhere else on stage. I would love to rewatch that (it was fun to see the different casts…

I know why they did it, but it wasn’t quite the same when they added the jobs component in S5: Miami.  I was still generally okay with it and Road Rules (some seasons were better than others- I liked Boston and New Orleans) until the Las Vegas season, as you said. 

Yeah, I was thinking about how hard it would be to get any of the other early seasons to reunite in mass like this. I think they might be able to pull off SF if Puck wasn’t invited- everyone else there seemed to like each other and bonded over their friendship with Pedro.  

I can understand why they chose Nicks (she’s totally a bigger sales draw for a tour), and undeniably Buckingham is probably a prick and hard to work with. But at the same time it seems he is more invested in the band than Nicks yet they choose Stevie every time there is a problem. Tango in the Night and Say You Will…

Fleetwood Mac was an English blues band that started in the late 60's. John McVie was bassist, and Mick Fleetwood was the drummer.

In my endless attempts at reimagining how I would improve the prequels, your scenario for Qui Gon and Kenobi is a recurring one. In my conception, I’d have Kenobi as the main Jedi character in Phantom Menace who would’ve done most of what we saw Neeson do, with the new Qui Gon character performing mostly as an older…

It’s a fun movie, for sure. Not as deep as Empire, but the Jabba rescue is excellent pulpy fun, the speeder bikes were cool, and the space battle is an amazing sequence of special effects that really may still be the best filmed narrative depiction of a fleet/fighter space battle even after all these years. The…

I could tell that it was plainly trying to establish some good feeling between them, since AoTC completely failed at that and the next time they see each other in RotS they’d be trying to kill each other. But it was too late, and too little.  Even during that sequence Kenobi and Anakin are mostly not interacting with…

I actually really do like the idea of a “rhyme”, sort of showing how history repeats itself and contrasting how the different generations deal with similar predicaments. For the generational story that Star Was became, it’s a solid stylistic choice.

Interesting.  What’s the difference to you?

I like Qui-Gon, but I can’t help but feel he’s an extra character and they should’ve kept the prequel cast tighter. Keeping in mind Kenobi’s comment that Yoda is the one who trained him, it would’ve made more sense to me for the two Jedi involved in Phantom Menace to be Kenobi and Yoda. But that gets in the way of the…