Really? The Karen/Danny stuff was more than enough to drag it down by itself.

Pretty much. The cast they put together worked for what they wanted to do in season 1, but with each progressive time jump it has become more and more awkward to keep some of them around and come up with things for them to do, which is presumably why they keep resorting to awful soap operatics. By normal standards,…

Every year you wonder: how can this new season live up to the previous one?

The overwhelming number of them are positive (apologies, I could’ve been more specific). That’s not mixed.

And have been overwhelmingly positive. Describing something as having a mixed reaction because some negative reviews exist is disingenuous, and by that standard, shows like Breaking Bad, Succession, The Good Place, Mad Men, and The Last of Us all had a mixed response — in fact, I’m struggling to find an example of a…

Except it’s entirely possible that, as far as Kojima is concerned, Akio Otsuka is THE definitive voice for Snake.

Is it possible that OB wasn’t just remembering things, but that Loki was actually changing time in the TVA?

Not that crazy. Presumably, Kojima was never entirely happy with Hayter’s performance, but didn’t find anyone closer to what he wanted (or more famous, if you prefer) until MGSV, so in the meantime, Hayter would keep getting the role by default.

I think the lightsaber grab is just about earned (it would’ve played better at a smaller scale though, like if she’d been pinned to the floor and it was just out of reach, instead of half way across the room). But to have that one relatively small success and then suddenly be able to push Ezra over a huge distance …

They finished filming in October last year, there was plenty of time to do additional photography pre-strike, if anyone felt it was needed.

An actor saying they would be willing to do more is an awfully long way from being an indication that more is coming.

Agreed. From very early on, I’ve been expecting this season to end with the return of Thrawn, which leads back into The Mandalorian and/or the crossover event they announced way back. Maybe we get a second season of Ahsoka after that, but telling a different story — more of a standalone sequel than a traditional…

It could be that they’re all just regular stormtroopers in janky armor, but that’s the least likely—and least interesting—explanation.

All I can think is, this is less an amusing anecdote and more an indication of how much of an asshole Steve Forn must be.

Seeding it is unnecessary, but you can’t do the full cosmic saga (maybe not the Hellfire Club either) — it’s too big and too much of a detour from what the X-Men are generally about. It something that works in an ongoing comic book or as an arc in an TV series, but not when you’re only getting one movie every 2-3…

Morrison? They’re a great writer (albeit a little pretentious at times and prone to having characters exclaim in each other’s direction instead of, y’know, talking), but they don’t strike me as particularly suited to Castlevania.

I disagree that a reprehensible protagonist needs to be cool. That would be a huge mistake and could very easily read as excusing his behaviour. If they keep his extremely problematic attitudes, they’d really have to tackle them head on.

Not letting one of our 6 streams be occasionally out of house was the last straw.

I actually think that could be interesting, although certainly not for everyone. With it apparently being a period piece, they could easily wrap his misogyny and racism in “it was the attitudes of the times”. It’d be a tough balance to strike, between him being a brutal asshole and interesting enough to follow, but it…

It means that adapting AI-generated material is much more challenging for the studios in question