Why does the existence of trans people upset you so much?

The more I read the current batch of hot takes on superhero-anything the more I feel like I’m living in a different world to most reviewers. Let’s be clear about this, the MCU *is* a connected universe... but very few of those films are absolutely key to understanding the rest. Hell I know people who started with…

I hope Netflix learns something from this. I guarantee they wouldn’t have seen this kind of boost of the whole season had been dropped at once. When you can only consume a show one week at a time, you have a week to talk about what just happened and speculate about what’s going to happen next. On the other hand, when…

I really have found it strange to see so many people complaining about Phase 4 not having a cohesive narrative. Even more so that I first started to see people saying it when we were barely halfway through Loki. It’s like they forgot what the Infinity Saga was actually like! We don’t hear the words ‘infinity stone’…

Oh I’ll try! For me, Phase 4 didn’t have a unifying *story line* but had unifying themes, particularly loss and legacy. It dealt with the aftermath of the Snap and the battle against Thanos, as well as the other personal losses experienced by the characters, while also passing the torch to a new generation of heroes.…

Not at all. The biggest problem with the map is that it was basically just the level map with features removed, as opposed to a guide indicating paths you could take. It happened a lot that some things that looked far away were connected by a rope or something, while things that looked close together were blocked by a…

It felt like the map was working against me; I remember one section where I got tripped up in trying to backtrack via the map, but if I’d looked around the area some environmental clues would’ve revealed a shortcut.

Yes, fewer staticky blue holograms please. There should be a better balance of being faithful to the SW look and actual usability.

If the years since 2016 have taught us anything, it’s that people who identify as tough-guys-with-guns will follow anyone who tells them it’s ok to hurt the people they don’t like, regardless of how effete, soft, or obviously smooth-brained that “leader” might be. 

But they didn’t “tell” anything. Not sure you know what show vs tell actually means. Kathleen is only “shown”, in fact, to a fault.

“I don’t know if Joel and Ellie were ambushed by those guys. They seemed genuinely angry that Joel was firing on them; I think he started it.”

Snyder has made precisely one good movie, his first, but at least he has a distinctive aesthetic and style. Other directors aped Synder (whether that was a good or bad thing is up to the viewer) because he had a voice. Trevorrow is a creative void, at best trying to copy “Amblin” without an ounce of skill to pull it…

Excited for more Evil! Minor correction though, it’s their 4th season in development now.

Looking back, the thing about early Marvel is that its goals were so modest: do a handful of standalones introducing the characters, then try to get to Avengers and see what happens after that.

At the very least, it sounds like once again another Dark Universe-esque “cart before the horse”. Hit on your first movie or two before worrying about your 9th and 10th.

And hey, look at that - the Authority run he links to is one tgat is definitely not in the DCU.

AND that’s the difference between plot-based and character-based storytelling.

I understand why devs do it. I am more talking about the players.

Bigger budget, worse CGI…less focus on the characters. Yikes.

Just seems like they showed the entire movie on that trailer.