Of the many surprising revelations of the #metoo moment, this one is somehow... the least.

No, but he sexually harasses Colossus. 

Oh good, a de facto spoiler thread!

Aw man, was he up for the part or did the producers just never go there?

In fairness, Alfie Woodward as Black Mariah could have been a compelling villain (“local neighborhood power broker with political ambitions discovers her inner supervillain”), and was trying her best with what she had — you just could barely hear her over Diamondback mugging for six episodes straight. :(

Amen. This is why I (AND ALL RIGHT-THINKING PEOPLE) preferred Homecoming to most of the recent MCU movies: the stakes were relatable. No universe-threatening megalomaniacs, just a pissed-off construction/demolition contractor with a temper and more weapons than he should have had.

Screw that, I want to live in the universe where Cronenberg got to direct Return of the Jedi as he was originally supposed to.

Yeah, I think this tends to put a lot of people off of him. His early stuff and especially the first 2-3 Discworld books are really pretty crap: “light-hearted comedy-fantasy” was big in the 80s (think Piers Anthony and Terry Brooks) and he didn’t properly break out of that vein and find his own voice until, IMO,…

To each their own, but I didn’t read the first two films’ takes on the creature to be particularly in opposition. Alien locked a crew of weaponless non-soldiers into a ship full of narrow corridors with the universe’s most perfectly evolved ambush predator. Nothing that happened in that film suggested that the…

Other things better than Prometheus:

Every time I scroll down and see this gimmick account posting, I’m briefly excited that Zodiac Motherfucker has finally returned to us, and then inevitably disappointed when my eyes finally focus.

I feel like inasmuch as Gilliam was ever going to be suited to a traditional big-budget scifi action tentpole movie, we got everything we could have out of that combination during 12 Monkeys.

Fair, although honestly? Once you’re handed the brief of “write an Alien film, but it’s gotta star Sigourney Weaver even though we literally incinerated her at the end of the last one, and oh by the way we’ve also signed up Winona Ryder”? You’ve already entered the Land of Stupid and hell why NOT use it as a test-run…

And while we’re at it, Resurrection isn’t so bad, either.

In both Barnes’ and Thompson’s cases, they have the advantage of being ridiculously good-looking. As strategies for getting hired in Hollywood go, it’s always been a good one.

Oh hey, and remember the time that io9 hired a diet coach as a science writer and he got to write long advertisements for his diet coaching business as “food science” columns that were all regurgitations of circa-2014 fad diet bullshit? I’m sure he was the last of those, right?

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No sign of Diamondback: good.

This. And honestly, it doesn’t take anything away from what they’ve managed to do. I could shoot up HGH and andro 24/7 and there’s no way I’d even begin to approach Hafþór’s numbers.

Is it really a scandal in this case? This isn’t the Olympics: nobody’s really pretending that these guys aren’t juiced to the gills.