Ms. Marvel trailer response: how dare they change her powers to make the CGI cheaper and look better! She-Hulk trailer: How dare they have CGI in a TV show that doesn't look perfect! Embiggened MCU females really can't win

I’ve seen most of Friends in syndication and I watched The Office as it aired. They’re both fine sitcoms and I enjoyed them at the time. Cringe and embarrassment humor isn’t my favorite so I don’t rewatch The Office. It’s possible I would appreciate it more? I think I’m just tired generally of our culture recycling…

Very true! I amend to queer people. They are the network that brought us WhiJo, Darryl, Constantine, Gary, alt-Captain Cold, and I’m sure a lot of others i don't know about cause I stopped watching everything but Legends years ago.

Go ask a lit professor who Don Quixote is, cause you’re clearly intent on fighting something that’s not even there

😂 I literally said I did like them

I’m not saying I judge people for enjoying them, obviously they’re very popular and I liked them when they were airing. But what inspires an almost Star Wars/MCU level fanaticism where people are still engaging this actively with them?

I will never understand why, of any piece of culture from the 1990s and 2000s, Friends and the Office are the two things I see gifs of and references to every single day on social media. I've even spent insomniac nights clicking 'not interested' over and over and over, they're still inescapable. There are such better…

Given that the cornerstone of her career was purposefully off-putting, unfiltered, and otherwise gross comic relief, that’s a very reasonable impression. I don’t fully understand how she’s transitioned to leading lady. She’s more of a Josh Gad or Billy Eichner type that’s appreciated best in small doses (if at all).…

I was very surprised when The CW suddenly became my go-to place for fun, smart, inventive, and entertaining network TV in the heady days of Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the peak years of Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and even the first season of Riverdale. I’m not at all surprised to see that card castle…

After the Thin Man, A Shot in the Dark, arguably Ocean’s 12 if you consider them comedies, some of the Men in Black and Vacation sequels. The trend is they have to have some genre frame that adapts to an almost monster of the week approach. 

To add to the list, After the Thin Man is better than The Thin Man, but that's largely on Jimmy Stewart and the plot, not the comedy.

Oh so sorry to offend, clearly you're a true fan who has the last word on the subject, especially cause you don't know G. Willow Wilson is a woman. 

I do agree with that. 

Luckily Doreen’s most impactful powers are making friends and programming, which are both very cheap to recreate.

I don’t think that’s accurate. In the trailers you can slightly see she’s slightly projecting her body shape using her powers , and Sana Amanat has explicitly said the embiggened fist smackdown is happening in the TV show. It seems more like Green Lantern maybe? Not just pew pew pew

Directly from her first writer, G. Willow Wilson, this was probably a good call. "I think there're some characters who are very much set up for the big screen; they're very naturally sort of cinematic. But with Ms. Marvel, we really weren't interested in creating something that had very obvious film potential. [...]…

You could have guessed from the second they put her in a TV show that they were junking the original powers. It’s just too expensive to thread the needle between ‘body horror’ and ‘realistic enough to not look crappy’ for that many hours of content. I’d rather her be derivative than derided, like Medusa’s hair from…

Ah yes, the Ralph Bellamy problem

Just FYI for anyone looking for a fun, comfort movie in the vein of traditional rom-coms . . . half of the movies above are not actually rom-coms by many definitions. The Half of It is a not a bad movie, but it’s really a kind of downer, not particularly funny coming-of-age story. If you go in expecting a rom-com you…

🤷 that’s getting into pretty pedantic territory. I’d rather keep it simple and just go by season numbers + “and specials”.