Thanos was first teased at the end of 2012’s The Avengers and finally appeared as a real character in 2018’s Infinity Wars. WandaVision aired in January 2021 nearly two years after the Fox deal had closed, so we’re about halfway through the tease cycle with no X-Men movie on the release calendar. And it feels like…

One thing I found unnerving about Get Back was the way John seemed to hold all the Beatles songs (especially the earlier ones) in such contempt. It’s sad that he seemingly felt the Beatles were something to be embarrassed about.

A fight scene would have been silly, given that Cersei didn’t know how to fight and was pregnant. But I do like the idea of Arya using a magic mask to look like Jaime, and then knifing her, and letting Cersei die thinking her brother killed her. And then the real Jaime enters the room and Arya pulls the mask off.

Is she still going on about this? Anybody who watches Enter the Dragon, and then watches Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, will primarily be amazed by Bruce Lee’s athletic grace and charismatic screen presence, and then kind of chuckle at the fictional portrayal of Lee unexpectedly playing against type. Tarantino’s…

I really liked the Entity as a concept, and it was fun seeing a thousand bureaucrats backing up the government’s knowledge with typewriters. But then the Entity doesn’t actually do much in the movie. It’s mostly just Tom Cruise doing stunts while looking for a key. Whatever they were saving for the next movie probably…

With no Emperor or Darth Vader around, it doesn’t seem like the nuts and bolts of the Rebels’ mop up duty would make for a very interesting story. There were a few more battles for a year, and then the headless Imperials signed a peace treaty? It feels like this happens offscreen because it would be anticlimactic…

I also agree that Star Wars is about the Skywalkers, and not the setting. And there’s a little discussed reason that Disney has been forced to explore corners of the galaxy that are increasingly tangential to the Skywalkers — it’s not just the difficulty around recasting Luke/Han/Leia, it’s that the original trilogy…

I felt like the series really exposed how thin the original movie is. When I saw Willow as a kid, I hadn’t even heard of Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones didn’t exist yet, so I went in with a child’s expectations. But this series was obviously made for middle-aged nerds who have since experienced those things.

It’s a re-edit that includes unused footage shot back in 1998, which clarifies that all four of them died in the plane crash and the trial is really the final judgment of their souls. Julia Louis-Dreyfus barely remembers filming the extra material and was told at the time that it was just a goof to throw off anyone…

For some time after BrBa ended, a popular interpretation was that Walt was arrested in the car he entered outside the New Hampshire bar, and everything in the series finale after the keys magically fell from the visor was a wish fulfillment fantasy.

I enjoy all the wheel spinning episodes. When episodes like Christopher and Luxury Lounge originally aired, I think fan reaction was negative primarily because they lack mob action. When viewers were waiting all week to find out if Tony was going to kill Ralphie or if there was finally going to be a war with the NY…

I gave the Filoni animated shows a chance, but I find them to be frivolous fan fiction and I just don’t like many of Filoni’s additions to the canon. Clone Wars and Rebels form a rickety foundation to pile this much TV content on top.

If a significant portion of the population is made up of mutants, why didn’t anyone mention this during the events of Civil War? Why didn’t the X-Men do anything to fight Thanos? It’s the same problem the Eternals had.

I’m going to call them “homeless” for the rest of my days and they are powerless to stop me.

Aren’t we all?

The space whales were making audible calls to each other… in hyperspace! Star Wars is not concerned with scientific accuracy.

I’m just not getting the point of the “different galaxy” conceit. We all know the deal with the Star Wars galaxy — out of the billions of star systems, humans have thoroughly conquered interstellar travel and identified thousands of worlds that have roughly the same mass and breathable atmosphere as Earth (er,…

The funny thing is that Hollywood didn’t stop hiring her because she’s an anti-vaxxer. It’s because she’s too old!

I know, it was like Filoni thought we’d never seen a TV show before. Obviously the series can’t just end with Ahsoka having failed to find Ezra or Thrawn, so spending *that much time* pretending all hope was lost just made the inevitable reveal fall flat.

They spent four full hours of TV chasing around a map ball, only to reveal at the very end of the fifth hour that the map ball was unnecessary because they could just hitch a ride with space whales.