I’ve been surprised when anything at all in the MCU references the “unsnappening” (particularly the Wandavision from two weeks ago). If you want to get real, snapping everyone back was probably a far crueler act than snapping them away. After 5 years, the world would still be grieving and dealing with a lot of trauma,…

I mean, it makes sense to promote what’s next, and Falcon and the Winter Soldier is next. They’ve revealed what they intended to reveal of Black Widow in their marketing already. If anything, I’m thankful they haven’t been drip-feeding more and more clips and footage and details in an attempt to maintain interest at…

Long-standing pet peeve of mine. There’s so much opportunity for incredible movie poster design, and the argument against it is that you need to see faces of recognizable stars in an environment that clearly establishes the genre in order to sell tickets, especially overseas. It shouldn’t be a surprise whose name has…

You can pretty much count on a “reimagining” of Peter Pan every odd-numbered year, with Robin Hood filling in the even-numbered years.

I can’t name another mega franchise with so much clout and recognizability that’s built on so little. Sure, there are other franchises where the first movie is clearly the best and the fandom loves to debate which entry comes in distant second (looking at you, Jurassic Park). But Ghostbusters is one good movie…

I believe it was implied that Kong in Skull Island was a juvenile, and nowhere near his full size yet.

Changing the showrunner, doctor, AND companions all at once just seemed sloppy. Change one of those things per season. Two if there’s massive drama behind the scenes.

I initially read that the RV played a recording stating that it was a bomb, it would detonate in 15 minutes, and everyone should evacuate the area.

Was anyone else completely convinced the ending was going to simply be Steve grabs Max and wishes for all wishes to be undone, sacrificing himself? It seemed like simple math to me. Everyone else used up their wish already, and it seemed weird that anyone would have the power to just renounce their wish and have it…

This. I’m thinking something along the lines of a financial disaster so intense that it essentially renders money worthless.

To me, “philosophical sequel” gives me hope that it’s not actually about a pandemic. If it were, that would just be a sequel. Soderbergh already went there and did that, and he didn’t leave much meat on the bone.

I’m going to take what’s apparently the even-less-popular opinion and go with Pyre, which was one of my favorite games that was new to me in 2020. I really loved the characters and story, and I oddly enjoyed the loop of story and gameplay. None of the stop/start of Transistor.

Watched Maximum Overdrive with a friend a couple weeks ago, and did a triple take when Esposito showed up. Too small of a role for the list, probably, but like Sesame Street: just a jarring realization when you see him from before he started getting typecast as a Fring-type.

I’m one of the only people who didn’t outright hate Andromeda. It’s flawed as hell, but I saw what they were trying to do, so I considered it a very clunky start to a new thing. With video games, I’m optimistic about sequels. They have a far better track record for learning from their mistakes. A lot of beloved…

I watched Batman Returns last night, and The Penguin’s similarity to Trump is kind of scary.

I agree, and I think that’s why I’m partial to Amy and Bill, even though they sort of...turned Amy into her whole thing. What I’ve always wanted, though, if only for half a season, is a non-human companion from a relatively similar culture/society. A companion that’s along for the ride and wants to help and has a…

Yeah, my British friend/coworker has shared some of his “wipes” with me. Personally, I’m looking forward to the 400-part Ken Burns documentary on 2020 that turns out to be longer than the actual year was (but not as long as it felt).

I feel like Charlie Brooker got sick of predicting/influencing the immediate future with Black Mirror, so now he’s going to try to make fun of the immediate past. But yeah, wow. Even what genuinely passed for humor back in July hasn’t aged well at all.

That phone call sounds too hauntingly plausible.

My perhaps overly-cynical theory is that Biden makes a deal with Donald: your legal troubles go away so long as you don’t incite your followers into a second Civil War. The democrats we deserve, not the ones we need.