Well, now it’s inevitable.

I’m having a hard time coming up with any animated franchise that hasn’t had its corpse revived recently. There was the first wave of reboot nostalgia, the second wave of, “Hey, people can draw from home, right?” in the middle of the pandemic, and now we’re in that third wave of every single remaining property asking…

A role like “stunt supervisor” on a project like this should also net you some sort of producer credit. You probably end up contributing to what happens and doesn’t happen on screen as much as the director.

To my knowledge, no one has even attempted skit nor satire about attempting to “modernize” the logo. You just don’t think of it. Not even in an attempt at sacrilege. It feels weird to even identify it as an “M,” even though that’s exactly what it is.

I would actually love a series where King Shark returns to the sea after being ridiculed for being dumb, only to find that as far as fish intelligence is concerned, he’s brilliant beyond the comprehension of his peers. He becomes a social pariah for even attempting to preach “don’t eat friends,” which is blasphemy to…

They’re just going to keep making more Mission Impossible movies in the meantime, aren’t they? By the time 7 actually comes out, they’re going to announce that he’s died in an accident on Mission Impossible 10.

That, and also art direction. A bright green cap would draw the eye, and the hot sauce bottle isn’t the focus of the scene. It would have been just as easy to create a modified green super-soaker nozzle, but that would be the brightest, most colorful thing in the entire shot. Yes, they get that particular on that…

It’s not even about how much it made in the past; it’s about how much an IP could make in the future. Ghost of Tsushima 2? I’ll pick that up on day 1. Days Gone 2? Hard pass.

I liked season 1 a lot, but everything I heard about the production was that it was developed for years as a movie that eventually expanded and got fleshed out into a series over the course of a decade of rejection. Granted, sometimes the world-building is the hardest part, and it’s easier to pick something back up…

I absolutely had a convoluted menu order when I worked at Mighty Taco in high school. It was a complete monstrosity of substitutions and ordering specific ingredients on the side that could be reassembled into something that didn’t make you feel like you ate a cheap fast food burrito for “lunch” at 10PM 6 nights a…

It at least makes me wonder if he thought he was really rapping in that cringey birthday party episode.

Exactly. And I’m way more likely to buy the next Ratchet when it comes out because it didn’t feel like a grindy chore. 

It’s such a pointless metric. Imagine tracking the success of streaming shows not by how many people watch, but by how many hours were streamed. Then you get franchises like Assassin’s Creed shooting themselves in the foot. I used to gladly buy whatever the annual entry was, until Origins came out. I sure interacted…

Yeah, I got a certain amount into BOTW (I think I’m in the second temple or whatever the hell the dungeons are called), not that that means anything since it’s nonlinear. And I even get why that sort of works for Zelda. But...I’m just not going to beat that game, and the only other Zelda game I’ve said that about was…

Kristin Schall had that weird flirty moment with Guillermo an episode or two back. She would probably have zero qualms about turning Guillermo, so long as Guillermo took the throne. Kick off season 4 with Nandor waking up from his slumber to a vampire utopia ruled by his former familiar. Play the whole episode like it…

Right? There’s the new marketing campaign: “There’s actually trace amounts of strawberries!”

100% PB, toasted, with a tall glass of something cold to wash it down with.

I used to be such a big Ubisoft fan. Had no problem with their annual Assassin’s Creed releases until Origins proved they weren’t interested in making Assassin’s Creed games anymore. At this rate, the preferred weapon in Far Cry 9 will be a hidden blade, and the primary weapon in Assassin’s Creed 37 (2026) will be an…

I mean, the industry is currently attempting to make strides to get away from this kind of stuff, and I highly doubt she’d share this at all if it hadn’t been thoroughly and adequately reconciled. This is pretty tame. Doesn’t make it excusable, but it’s two people with a ton of power having a brief, explosive shouting…

I think we’re massively misreading it. Venom as the third playable character.