well-said, and goes a long way to explain the muddle.

Interesting fact about House apportionment: the number of Reps was capped at 435 in 1929. The total population was only about 12o million at that time, which was only about one-third of what it would have been at the time of the Snap. So House membership  would have been more “representative” at the Snap than it had…

William Sadler played President Ellis in Iron Man 3 and also Agents of Shield.  I think he was supposed to have turned up in the first Ant-Man but didn’t for some reason?  Also Miguel Ferrer played his first VP (presumably replaced after it turned out he was Hydra).

Fun fact: They considered having Rhodes be VP after the five year time jump in Endgame.

iron man 3 was also all about presidential stuff, but even thats 11 years ago now.

To a certain extent Netflix, with their shift to original programming, did spark the massive escalation that’s now a problem- it’s not just that everyone put out their own streaming service (itself not a great idea) but they all felt compelled to spend absurd amounts of money on original content exclusively for those…

The Netflix model was not the problem.

Hey, *you’re* the one that took the name of that dress pattern for your avatar name, pal...

Lena Dunham has talent as a writer, but some sort of negative talent when it comes to clothing. There are people who look bad in their clothing because they clearly don’t care enough to put more thought into what they wear than just grabbing some stuff that vaguely fits and then going with it. But Dunham very clearly…

Can I please say “never use that picture again” without it being considered body shaming?

Doesn’t help that the pashmina is draped like she’s about to ruin Joey Chestnut’s legend.

Seriously, take me back to the halcyon days of the 80s and 90s, when television shows and movies were definitely not engineered solely to sell toys.

Clerks also has a similar scene that doesn’t quite make sense.

Crystal Skull did $300 million domestic in 2008 — it made about the same as Iron Man — so I’d say there was a fair amount of demand there. It certainly wasn’t because there was wildly positive buzz about the movie (though I do think the “people hate this one” generalization is a total internet-era exaggeration).

Maybe…

It baffles me that people keep framing it this way. Yes, Trump sucks. Yes, Biden is the better choice between the two of them. But why is he the choice?

There was a TON of Republican panic in 2016 as Trump steadily dismantled all GOP challengers and most considered him an embarrassment that would lose the election and cause long-term damage to the party. It’s easy to forget now, but conservative media (Fox News and talk radio) was very slow to warm up to Trump. Fox…

A taped interview with a Dem Shill is not going to do it .

It’s a combination of lots of money and lots of time. 

No they have her. She was part of their awful expanded universe plan from back when Amazing Spider-Man 2 came out and bombed. I mean she’s not Black Cat, but there’s a Felicia Hardy there in some boardroom scene so they do still have the character.

From what I’ve read and heard on podcasts, it was supposed to tie into the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies (which are Sony?) and take place in the 90s, with the villain trying to kill baby Peter Parker instead of the three teens. Then that got scrapped to try to make the concept work with MCU Tom Holland Spider-Man…