I recently replayed the 5 Gameboy Mega Man games on Virtual Console.

I just watched the clip again. The exchange goes like this.
Goblin: "You think your puny webbing can stop me? …scatter you little bugs." (pushes the piano off the skyscraper).
Spidey: "Jeez Louise Goblin. I webbed you to the piano so you wouldn't push it off."
Goblin: "You what? (falls) NOOOOOOOOO!"

My first assumption would be that the three films were made by gay, male Asian writers and directors. I read more theatrical scripts than screenplays but the trope of first time artists writing about themselves still rings true.

SpiderMan Turn Off the Dark plot.
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That's her superpower!

Ha! That's my favorite number! The rest of the score is closer to the angsty ballad they sang at the Tony Awards:
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I remember reading a critic suggest that "What I've Always Wanted" should have been rewritten for Superman to sing. He wants to give up heroics and settle down with a wife and kids. I thought that was a lovely idea.

One random thought about the second libretto.

I'm surprised to hear Berger's working on another show. The book is fascinating but cruel. He makes himself look very bad as if to say "screw it. I know I'm never working again." The fact that he's promoting the book in this interview, 3 years after publishing, suggests he sees it as his primary source of income.

That's a shame. It reminds me of the Noah Galvin fallout. There's room in this world for "Looking," "Queer As Folk," "The Outs," "Modern Family," "Will and Grace," AND "The Real O'Neals." If they were all running at the same time audiences could pick and choose. It's the gap between each one that draws audience…

They tried. Twice I think. Both versions bombed.

When I first heard "You Got Possibilities" I assumed it went to a delightful villainous character. I was disappointed to learn it went to the secondary villain's secretary who has almost nothing to do with the plot.

I've listened to the title song several times and still don't get it. I could say it's about turning off the self-doubt and self-loathing in your mind but the lyrics are much vaguer.

Berger's line is an excuse. Taymor's interviews suggest she wanted to write about the Greek myth of Arachne from the beginning. The Greek chorus of nerds in the early book focused on the parallel's between Greek mythology and superhero stories. That would make a fascinating graduate thesis but didn't play out on stage.

Off-topic but this weekend I binge watched a gay-themed web series called "The Outs." It's terrific and I'd recommend it to anyone who liked "Looking."

Mencken is there but the scientist is Dr. Abner Sedgwick. He gets a delightful song called "Revenge."

The "Superman" and "Spider-Man" librettos have a similar problem: excess focus on a supporting role. Star Jack Cassidy was cast as Lex Luthor, then they couldn't get the rights to the character. They rewrote him as gossip columnist "Max Mencken."

It's interesting to compare the musings of slash fiction fans to the think pieces on HBO's cancelled show Looking. There are audiences who want nuanced same-sex relationships in their media and folks who'd rather live their fantasies vicariously through their media. Common complaints about Looking included
a) it's not…

I loved this film when I first saw it. The style and supporting cast were great and I didn't mind Cera's bland straight man as much as others seemed to. Sadly that love has diminished over time.
On a second viewing I felt it fell apart in the final stretch. (Basically after they ran out of source material).
Then I read…

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When the squad was returned to prison at the end they each got gifts for good behavior. Jai Courtney had threatened Waller and we saw him from shoulders up with no shirt shouting in his cell. The implication was he'd been locked up naked for bad behavior. According to some "content warnings" there was…