Evil should be the primary value proposition. It’s miles better than any of the new Trek I could bare to put myself through. For posterity’s sake, that was two seasons of Discovery (and I can’t explain sticking it out for that long) and just half a season of Picard. I hear Strange New Worlds is better, and given Pike…

It made much less than that, $168.7m to be precise, but there are significant extenuating cicumstances (i.e. it came out before the pandemic had eased and it had a simultanous digital release). Who knows what it would’ve made if it got a normal release in a normal market.

Flashpoint doesn’t work in the comics.
It’s really weirdly structured, skipping over the real dramatic meat of Barry breaking the timeline in the first place. Despite her importance to the whole thing, Nora Allen barely appears in it. It doesn’t use the years of build up, it just wants to play in an alternate world.
And…

Didn’t officially announce it perhaps, but it was an open secret that it would get a second season well before the first season came out... pretty much from the show being revealed, if I recall correctly.

They were never intended to be traditional TV shows that run for season after season. I think they approach them in the same way as the movies, where they tell a complete story, and only consider if and when they want to do a sequel once it’s out there, and without being tied to any sort of regular schedule.

To be fair to The Suicide Squad it came out mid-pandemic and had a simultaneous streaming release, so it’s really not a fair comparison to the others. I’m not convinced it would’ve been a big hit in a COVID-free world either, but there’s limited evidence to speak with confidence and it should really be excluded (or…

I suspect the problem of Miller had a smaller direct effect than you might expect — they’re just not high profile enough to make a dent in the consciousness of general audiences (unless you count their absence from much of the promotional rounds).

I suspect it’s largely predicated on how nostalgic you are for Keaton’s Batman. The problem is, they focused all the marketing on his presence, but forgot that his films are over 30 years old, so most under-25s just don’t give a shit. If they’d brought back Bale (or maybe even Gordon-Levitt) instead, it might well…

I don’t remember any where they didn’t either. Gunshots haven’t been very common in the MCU.

What’s been called an “overwhelming margin” of votes in favor of it isn’t quite true

Are we sure she’s actually dead? It was a gut shot. Those, at least as far as fiction is concerned, are far from instant death — protagonists usually just shrug them off. Emergency services arrive quickly enough and she can probably be revived.

You’re wrong. “The Snap” is how real-world audiences (at least initially) referred to Thanos using the stones, because that’s what he did — he snapped his fingers. “The Blip” is the in-universe name for the whole event. Several of the post-Blip entries have had characters say some variation of “I was blipped” when…

You’re complaining that The Mandalorian isn’t referencing a character who died ~30 years earlier? You must’ve abhorred Andor’s steadfast refusal to pack itself full of fanboy references.

Nothing more serious than snapping your fingers...

That’s not quite what Simpson is saying. He wasn’t involved in the opening sequence at all, he just thinks AI art is unethical (I don’t disagree, especially if it’s used commercially to avoid paying a professional). And the AI didn’t animate the sequence, it was used to produce the final images that were then animated…

It’s in one of the trailers. They’ve disguised it with CGI to look like a very conveniently ramp-shaped rocky outcrop.

There’s no real explanation for why they are committing acts of violence [...]. It doesn’t appear as if the Skrulls want to undermine any systems of government; what they’re doing is plain old terrorism, full of random high-density, high-visibility targets all over the globe.

You’re acting like these AI models have a database of all of their training material that they are just cross-referencing. Sorry, that’s not how AI works.

Now, if a bunch of artists story-boarded all of this out and then someone just scanned it into the box to do the work - that feels less ok.

I don’t know what you do like, but I’m pretty sure you’ve waited that long for a sequel before and still cared about it.