The sheer audacity of Kingo. Kingo Senior. Kingo Junior. Did he just keep that going? Kingo the third. Kingo the fourth, esquire.

We watched this right after watching Obi-Wan Kenobi, and by gum after that train wreck was it nice to have a show with interesting, fun characters that I already cared about after one episode (and even more so after two), in a show that actually understands how to tell a coherent narrative. Whoever thought up…

(An aside: if Kamala has to find romance, I’d love to see her do so with a Pakistani boy, instead of, as is so often the case in western narratives, with a white boy. Sorry Bruno.)

She saw Bruno running away with “Night Light,” but Bruno ONLY hangs out with Kamala

I laughed at how dismissive they were about Kingo Senior, although they could certainly see the appeal of Kingo Junior.

Nah she has always sorta played second fiddle to him. She has been honest that she does these movies to just watch how they are made so she can apply it in her own film making.  She is a great director. 

‘Alright men, we’re going deep into enemy territory - time to load out! On the one hand, you could take this standard-issue assault rifle. On the other hand, you can carry this laser-pointer of equivalent size plus this vicious ten-foot carnivorous beast that a) you’ll have to drag around in a cage, b) might get…

Biosyn? Bio...syn. Well clearly this film’s greatest strength will be subtlety.

Sure, here’s the answer:

By the way, for anyone who might know, why are they hiding now that everyone knows that Maisie Lockwood is a clone? I mean it’s not illegal and I don’t really know what the threat to her would be? Actually, wouldn’t she be a billionaire as the sole inheritor of that estate?

For some reason, it was during the trailer for this movie that this frustration hit me with the basic premise. Not the dinosaurs roaming around, but the concept that they would be an existential threat to humanity that could just not be figured out. Like if there is one thing that humanity is really good at, it is…

velociraptors that can be directed by a laser pointer

“Rumor has it that Spielberg once wanted a Jurassic film to build to scenes involving dinosaurs strapped with rockets, running into battle”

Re:Ryan. He is raised a very specific way from his mom and sorta closed off fro the world. He doesnt know why at all. His whole issue with homelander was basically built off his moms vibes (and him pushing him off the roof). You also have to realize he has no knowledge that Homelander raped his mom and then she was…

Annie must feel so vindicated, being saved by an Almond Joy. The Almond Joys are clearly siding with the good guys here.

He self immolated, not for any cause other than his own melodrama.

I hate to go all both-siderism here but it turns out both Annie’s & Hughie’s radically different opinions of Almond Joys were valid.

The cold open was chilling. The way they build up to the shooting was perfect. The whole thing with he was quiet and kind to his mother. The same mother who watched the same skewed media he did. The idolisation of Stormfront leading him exactly where she wanted him to be. And then denouncing his act while seamlessly…

Ryan’s priorities currently are as follows:

“before setting himself alight in a moment reminiscent of Thích Quảng Đức’s famous death”