Agreed, she was great in LEGION

A ‘disturbing looking spider-god’ is the root explanation we need for the proliferation of spider-heroes. Maybe it’s lazy and just created most of them under cover of the Osborn radioactive-spider program?

Swivels sometimes come in useful

I feel sure that she has her big gun already well in hand

Also, this:

More pandering to English nationalism by Hollywood. Cool, cool.

‘While it was immediately obvious to me that Yelena was the attacker on the roof’

“which Clint explained the previous night is crucial since trick arrows are pretty rare and unique in their design”

“ just act like iron fist never happened. we already have shang-chi as a kung-fu master so we don’t really need iron fist.”

I think movies are a given - certain plotlines which we know will be introduced in S08 only pay off in the final novels, so

“The trailers have made it seem like it’s going for generic medieval.”

“Oh, and the Chose Male also has three women who love him and sleep with him in the series, and all of them are friends and are totally cool with him sleeping with the others, because of course they are.”

‘It seems like every movie project was designed to capitalize on nostalgia for the OT and that ended up backfiring spectacularly because it only appealed to a narrowing segment of older fans.’

And a welcome to the MuskBros!

There’s a degree to which I’d go along with this; Jordan does make an effort to portray female-led plots within the Aes Sedai and certain other organisations and societies, but there’s far, far too much of his women leads just day-dreaming about the men.

“his specific ethnic heritage that Rand is very clearly the only one to have, etc.”

“Spoken like someone unfamiliar with the “playing tall” strategy or scientific/economic/diplomatic win conditions.”

“Likely, they’re the evil cabal who want to kill millions of people during World War I, which is also weird because as far as I know World War I killed bunches of people just fine on its own.” This. Wonderwoman pulled the same Little Englander nonsense with the Axis (johnny foreigner) being the Bad Guys in a war where…

T’Lyn was among the casualties from the Exclesior-class ship in this episode (she pops up for a moment in sick bay)

Did you miss the Mariner reference this episode to Jennifer’s “little butt’, and her reaction to seeing J nude in the Naked Time epsiode?