I thought the American iteration failed because they tried to squeeze it down to 22 minutes per episode and Reggie Watts didn’t suit the title role at all. I’m not sure the lack of panel shows in the US is a real problem — they surely could’ve raided the Whose Line is It Anyway? archives to find a few willing…

And even if they weren’t, SquareEnix would still have had a large degree of control over what was being built. Developers don’t generally just show up at a major publisher with a ready to publish AAA-wannabe, especially one built around a licensed property.

Joel too. I don’t know why they made him a regular in the first place, but I zone out every time we get stuck in one of his storylines. It’s not that he’s the worst character ever or anything, but there’s just no good reason for him to have so much screentime in this show. It’s not about him, or at least it shouldn’t…

Once it’s over, someone should edit the whole show down to a one-off movie/miniseries focused mainly on Midge’s interactions with Lenny Bruce, with pretty much everything else trimmed to the bare minimum. It would be an absolute delight.

I think “How did a disastrous launch that took a year to fix affect the planned DLC for a game?” is a perfectly valid question to frame a post around.

Possibly some people have the original page cached in their browser from before the redirect was implemented.

Luke Cage was fantastic for 6 or 7 episodes, but then, yeah, it took a very hard turn into “what the fuck? who thought any of this was a good idea?” and never recovered.

In this theoretical original structure, I imagine the flashbacks would have been laid out quite differently too. They’d be spread across 2 or 3 more episodes for a start, and as you say, they were very clumsily integrated in the version we got. The show would almost certainly have run 8 episodes too (The Mandalorian…

To be fair, Solo was probably not the best place for “lots of new ideas”. Which is not to suggest it needed to be as join-the-dots as it turned out, but you can’t really do anything radical (unless, perhaps, you wanted to reveal that everything we thought we knew about Han was pure fiction on his part).

I think it was always supposed to be both. My suspicion is that it was heavily restructured after the fact.

Is it that hard though? Jackass might have run away with the weekend, but there’s surely some easy snark to be had about Moonfall’s opening weekend just barely outperforming Spider-Man’s eighth. And from there you can pivot to mocking Roland Emmerich’s recent “Marvel films are killing original cinema”, as if (1) him…

That was my point. Sony would be looking for studios that are under Microsoft’s radar, because they don’t have the purchasing power to compete at the same level, and may struggle in the future if they don’t bolster their first-party portfolio before Microsoft eats up any more of the bigger multi-platform developers.…

Insurance. Microsoft look like they’re trying to buy up all the major multiplatform developers/publishers. Sony can’t afford to compete at that level, but they probably think it’s a good idea to at least get a few strategically valuable independent studios in their pocket while they still can.

Like Raimi says, it needs to be test-screened. You can’t get an accurate response to the reshoot stuff until the reshoot stuff is (mostly) done.

It’s not about understanding. They don’t care what it means. The rule in China is pretty simple: criminal behaviour must be punished by the end of the film.

That assumes dishonesty was involved here. It seems at least as likely that when the trailer was put together her scenes hadn’t been cut yet.

Someone mentioned that accent idea to Johnson on Twitter back when the first one came out. I think this was his reaction (but the account he’s responding to has since been “protected”, so I may be mistaken):

Not sure I agree that Inferno is worthy of a best of list (I love Hickman, and I enjoyed it fine, but it wasn’t “top 10” good), but...
1) It’s not unfinished. The final issue came out in the first week of January.
2) If being unfinished was disqualifying, Wonder Woman: Historia (1 of 3 volumes released), The Good Asian…

Given that the only reason this movie exists is because Chastain thought it would be cool to get a bunch of highly talented actresses together to kick some ass in a big espionage action-thriller (like men get to do all the time), I will never understand why she didn’t go straight for Kathryn Bigelow or Mimi Leder or…

The weirdest thing about her anti-trans unveiling is that it started with “this article about menstrual health refers to ‘people who menstruate’ instead of ‘women’ — WTF?!” and after the intial round of criticism immediately pivoted to “I was once a victim of domestic abuse and just want to protect women’s spaces, so…