Also, for the first 20 years or so, wasn’t Carol Danvers literally the only person Fury could ask to do any space-related things? And she was starting out with no alien allies except the Skrulls— as far as anyone else was concerned, she was some weird Kree military deserter with random superpowers. Neither one of them…

Dil says “I thought you knew,” but her follow-up is “What were you doing in the bar, if you didn’t know?” From her point of view that’s a totally reasonable question, and it’s interesting to see Jordan’s comments in this interview about the real-life bar that this was based on, because when I first saw the movie as a…

It’s a smaller-scale story and yes it’s a downer, so those are both challenges, but I can imagine them livening it up without dumbing it down— Herbert throws so many little background things and barely-described past events into all of these books, extrapolating on some of those could be an interesting way to…

Short answer: Ross was given the Third Murderer’s lines, and also a brief line of a random servant who’s telling Macbeth that the First and Second murderers are here to see him. I think that’s it— there’s a lot of story they’ve invented for him, but the rest is all nonverbal.

Long answer: Ross in the play is basically…

Something I didn’t expect— although I’m sure it’s been done in other productions at some point, since pretty much any kind of variation you can imagine trying on Shakespeare has been done at some point— is that Coen made a pretty bold choice in combining one particular named character with two particular unnamed ones…

That quote sure is pretty stupid (totally aside from the insane idea that kids would’ve gone apeshit for a 10-hour surrealist extravaganza by the guy who made The Holy Mountain as long as enough famous people were associated with it, there’s no fucking way Jodorowsky could’ve finished his movie before Star Wars came…

There’s definitely some poetic license here— they’re going for an immediate signifier of “things have fallen apart further than anything we’ve ever seen”, so it can’t just look like a building that’s been abandoned for 20 years within a still-functioning civilization, it has to look more extreme just as a visual…

I haven’t read the book so I didn’t have any particular image of the characters ahead of time, but I think just on the show’s own terms, the reviewer’s idea of García Bernal being bad casting for Leander because he’s too likable is off base. I mean... I’ve totally known people like that! Warm and funny and interesting…

A person I like and respect went on a week-long Facebook tear about how terrible the Sandman TV show was obviously going to be because they had “normwashed” the character of Death. Because her hair wasn’t spiky enough.

Something none of the adaptations have used is that Shaddam is described in the book as looking like a fairly young guy, due to the incredibly good medical care he’s had for the last 80+ years.

Eye of the beholder and all, but to me only the first 2 of those (and maybe Irulan’s hat) are ugly. The other headgear is bizarre for sure but I’m into it; it’s pretty much in the Moebius tradition of future fashion.

Halloween Kills is the worst movie I’ve seen in years. I mean, of course everyone doesn’t have the same tastes as me, but I liked the 2018 one pretty well and went into this with a hopeful open mind, and yikes— pretty much a disaster on every level except the gore effects. It’s not just full of stupid dialogue and…

Wednesday in the comics has an oval head; she’s not bulgy like that. 2D designs always need to be interpreted in some way when rendered in 3D, and I’d have been fine with them deciding to exaggerate some things instead of trying to be identical to the comics, but I agree with the reviewer that their choices here…

Yes, the article is right there for anyone to read, and I read it— so I was pointing out why your comment didn’t make any sense as a response to the original text. You may have thought you were cutting for brevity, but what you cut totally changed the meaning, in such a way as to give you a false thing to criticize;…

The way you edited that passage makes it sound like the “but” is a disagreement with the first part; it’s not, and it’s pretty obnoxious to scold someone for “wording this very badly” when you’ve left out crucial wording. You removed a sentence in between: “Democratizing access might truly be the best way forward for…

Yeah, in the first few reaction shots of Colin, it kind of looked like he was trying to figure out “How is this asshole so good at *my* job? Is he secretly an energy vampire?” before the penny dropped that the guy is trying to make money.

Because the one thing stronger than Laszlo’s hypnotic powers is his self-regard. This is a specialized thing he thinks he knows how to do, because he spent a few hours doing it 300 years ago, so he’s going to show it off— he is that guy.

Not only did half a dozen vamps fall for the snake oil— the extra joke in the way they stage that scene is that they don’t die simultaneously, because only one at a time can go out through the door, so each one goes up in flames in full view of whoever’s trying to get out next, who presumably thinks “Sucks to be you,…

You can assume whatever you want, but the play is a character-focused tragedy with a supernatural element - it’s not meant to represent practical political life in any era. And the way the Macbeths are portrayed in it is that, except for Macbeth’s short-lived friend Banquo, they seem to be totally alone in the world.…

There’s nothing in the play to suggest that the Macbeths give a shit about anyone other than themselves, or are trying to establish any kind of legacy. There is some ambiguous dialogue as to whether they’ve ever had children: Macduff, on learning that his family has been killed on Macbeth’s orders, says “He hath no…