Good Night and Good Luck is also in that era, and iirc Clooney paid RDJ’s insurance out of his own pocket to convince the studio to let him cast him.

Give Melanie Rawn’s Sunrunner books a shot. They do a lot of what you’re crediting GRRM for, but they did it first, and the series has been finished for over twenty years. Just 6 books, and if the first trilogy doesn’t do it for you it’s a complete story and you don’t have to read the second.

having recently appeared in The Suicide Squad (which is apparently non-canonical in the new DC universe)

From a story perspective you’d think that the implied connection between the Ten Rings and Kamala’s bangle and whatever is happening in The Marvels that they’d be trying to move Shang-Chi 2 UP in the schedule.

‘Defining boundaries’ means letting your partner know the things that you won’t do. I.e. “I am uncomfortable with heights, so if you’re looking for a partner who will go rock climbing with you, I’m not the right partner for you.” If your ‘boundaries’ are placing explicit limits on your partner’s behavior (beyond…

Seems like a real mixed message to give Paramount more money for messing with you.

Essentially what Paramount and Disney and Max are doing with the more recent spate of pulling content is writing off the reduction in value of the service that the shows/movies were on, not writing off the production costs of the shows/movies themselves.

It looked like a shoulder shot, so I’m betting she consciously shifted back to her Skrull form after the hit to sell that it was a killshot, but it’s not an immediately wound and she’ll be able to make her way to get help.

Tweetdeck (the only way to use twitter that made it remotely usable) also forced everyone into the New Tweetdeck preview (which sucks ass), and apparently the plan is that by the end of the month only Verified users will be able to use Tweetdeck at all.

So... Pretty much like every other Youtuber apology video, then.

Just finished watching this half season, and I’d say that it’s as straightforward an adaptation of Time of Contempt as Season 1 was of The Last Wish.

…but there’s a reason Amazon doesn’t call The Rings of Power an adaptation of The Silmarillion.

Have to wonder how much the ad revenue loss is down to Youtube’s increasingly byzantine monetization rules forcing creators to get their money through paid sponsorships and patreon.

My point was that that only really works with the superheroes who have innate super powers, of which there are only a small handful. Of the current ‘core’ Avengers that’s just Danvers, Spider-Man, Thor, and Hulk. Maybe Bucky, but there’s been some indication that Skrulls have greater than human strength and agility,…

Skrull Sam Wilson could still probably walk into the White House and put a bullet in the president. Or Skrull Rhodey for that matter. The risk isn’t that a Skrull impostor of an Avenger would have their powers or abilities (though with the memory mining tech they have they could fully copy somebody with learned…

I’m calling bullshit on that. There are 8 people credited for the main title sequence, and only two of them are visual artists. One animator, and the ‘concept by’ credit. Everyone else is a producer, director, technical director or department head.

The 4000 series also supports frame generation which provides a huge performance boost and can make even the most poorly optimized game (e.g. Jedi Survivor) run at a locked 60 FPS.

I think the production of Season 2 is fully cancelled. They’re shopping Season 1 to other streamers so they can squeeze some more money out of it.

I think this does set up a softening of the Federation’s ban on genetic modification. The impression I always had from ‘Doctor Bashir, I Presume’ was that the Federation ban on genetic enhancement was specifically for humans, not all species.

I love that this has pretty much been: