pointing to Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s legendary run on Giant Sized and eventually Uncanny X-Men in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s as a touchstone

I should probably have made it clear that being “among the best of that glut of YA series adaptations we got over the last 15 years” is relative. It’s not a particularly high bar.

The second one should obviously be Plateau of the Empire of the Planet of the Apes.

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Surely Kingdom differentiates it from the previous trilogy as much as Empire would.

The Maze Runner movies were among the best of that glut of YA series adaptations we got over the last 15 years. It wasn’t at the level of The Hunger Games, but the first one in particular was a terrific movie, and the rest at least had solid set pieces, even if the narrative was completely forgettable once they’d…

I believe it’s a name with a very much remembered origin. It could be a title, or he could have adopted it because of the legends it brings to mind among apekind.

Well, it was a nod towards the original movie, but it really doesn’t matter what it was “meant” to be. If they want her to have been an astronaut on that ship, the option is there.

They’re not the same apes. This film is 300 years and many generations of ape removed from War.

They weren’t playing the long game, they just put in an easter egg referring back to the original films. It’s a bit much to describe it as set up, even if they are building on it now.

I don’t know that it’s fair to blame Waititi for any perceived change in the second season of Our Flag Means Death. He was just an actor. He had no writing credit on the show, and only directed the very first episode. I mean, I’m sure he had influence, but he wasn’t calling the shots.

He’s not wrong. It was everything about the movie, rather than him specifically, but he’s spot on about why Love and Thunder didn’t work. Everyone involved just got too caught up in the fun of making it and pushed it too far into silliness.

What people who cared about him? He had an ex-wife who he already avoided out of guilt over choosing not to be around while their child was dying, and she had no reason to think he was dead in the first place.

Did he? I thought he just didn’t die from the thing that looked like it would be fatal at the time, and then went to live in the wilderness because he was unhappy and wanted to be by himself. Maybe I’m forgetting something, but I don’t recall there being an active pretence on his part that he was dead.

I think the line of thinking is one that’s fairly common in these kind of fanatics. A review that’s not unqualified praise is nitpicked apart until it can be dismissed as a personal attack. They’ve probably convinced themselves that they’re being reasonable and have space in their worldview for the theoretical existenc…

100% agreed. After Fargo and Legion, I’m interested in whatever Hawley does — those shows weren’t perfect, but they were almost always interesting, and when everything clicked they were fantastic.

I thought your point was that you would be called a Nazi.

That silence you hear is is the collective fucks given by every North American Doctor Who fan who have had to deal with this minor inconvenience their entire lives.

According to the EW story, this isn’t canonical, so Hickman can kill off whoever he wants.

My favourite detail might be that Lennon doesn’t even wear glasses on the cover to With the Beatles.