Ah man, I remember getting to about episode 10 of JJ and realizing that they had run out of plot and were just going to spin their wheels until they got to the contractually obligated number. Maybe if they had sprinkled in a few episodes where she had, you know, done her job, they wouldn’t have ended up in that mess.

Hell, the best episodes of the X Files revival were Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster and The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat. The mythology episodes were kind of bad.

I feel like people forget (or were just too young to experience) how pretty much all of the best episodes of the X-Files were the standalone episodes. Home. Squeeze & Tooms. Ice. Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose. Jose Chung’s From Outer Space. The Post-Modern Prometheus. Bad Blood.

I’m with you on the episode count, but I’m not sure about the important/interesting distinction. I remember watching the first season of Jessica Jones and being baffled that a show about a private detective had zero cases of the week. Or maybe there was one, but it turned out the case was a trap and it all just became…

I’m fine with Injustice as a video game and a comic series because it’s off to the side. Making it the main thrust of the DC movie universe is a terrible take. And beyond that, I don’t get the idea that it was Snyder’s idea from the beginning. His Superman was disconnected from humanity and more dour than the classic…

I think he can frame a shot just fine, but I struggle to find those shots gorgeous because they’re all gray-brown, washed out, and kind of ugly. I feel like he’s our best director at making ugly-pretty movies.

I’m sitting here waiting for a list of the year’s best band names.

That seems like a weird take. People often complain that the choreography is bad, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard anyone call it emotionally empty. Especially considering the raw emotion on display in that fight, and the nakedly emotional plea for Rey to join Kylo at the end of it.

It’s funny, Hamill was good but not great in the OT, and everyone loved him. Then he went and gave an incredible performance in TLJ and everyone said it was the worst thing in the history of movies.

I feel like Andor and The Last Jedi are the only two Disney Star Wars properties that really focus on the characters. In both instances, the plot is driven by the characters and what drives them.

I think you might be overestimating how much attention the general public pays to this kind of stuff. Sure, you and I knew that Spiderverse might end on a cliffhanger because we read sites like this and we remember when they were calling it Across the Spiderverse Part 1. But my coworkers and my parents and my son and…

Yes :-)

It is.

I’m on the border of Gen X and millennial, for whatever that’s worth, and I think the first two seasons are some of the funniest comedy every produced. I guess Tim Robinson’s comedy is my exact style.

Because it’s an excellent scene.

It’s near the top for me because of the stakes. They’re finally allies after dancing around each other for the whole movie, and both of them are convinced the other will turn. The supposed villain of the series is dead. It’s unclear where things are going. Then the fight ends and they both realize they had misread the…

It looks good when they shoot it in closeup, but the wispy silver lines around the waist will never look right to me. When you see him in full without some red to break up all that blue he just looks kind of goofy. Hell, I’ll take Tyler Hoechlin’s suit on Superman & Lois over anything Cavill has worn so far.

That’s probably the case for some people. I’m generally fine with alternate takes on existing properties. Why just make something again in another format without putting your own spin on it?

I’ve seen the Ultimate Cut once but it didn’t really fix anything for me. Sure, the convective tissue is better and it feels more like an actual movie rather than a random assemblage of scenes, but that’s probably like the nicest thing I could say about it. It’s like doing minor renovations on a house that has a…

I don’t know. Most of those make plenty of sense.