Hot Take: Love & Thunder is hilarious and awesome.

So, according to this movie, Monica Rambeau, despite being a former Air Force captain who’s had superpowers for at least a year or two, when seeing a girl about to fall to her death while she herself is safely on the ground, stammers, hesitates, and is reluctant to attempt a save until Fury yells “Black Girl Magic!”…

“its interstellar setting”

I imagine Daredevil did fine for a violent streaming show, though I also imagine its fans are the extremely online, very vocal type. I don’t know how many regular MCU theatergoers watched it, however, which is what I was getting at.

Interesting - particularly so as, again, the other Triwizard school stuff was right there. (Though I guess I wouldn’t blame Rowling for just being tired of writing the series by that point.)

It seems like both a nod to the fact that not every Marvel Studios thing “matters” in the grand scope of the series, which, duh, but also an attempt to plead with viewers that they should still care about what happens here anyway.

I do think that, given how grim the Hunger Games universe and story is, there was a real benefit in doing a slower penultimate movie in which not a lot happened. The characters weren’t complex enough, and the plotting wasn’t exciting enough, to make the Mockingjay movies great, but the deliberate pace did give the…

Meh, I would have happily written out the whole damn camping trip, and thus fit the book into one movie, easy. (But the fans and accountants would have understandably revolted.)

Kinda important follow-up: how does she feel about the situation  now?

Prompt replies carry a surcharge. If you can’t be bothered to Venmo me for expedited opinions, that’s on you.

All that is perfectly fair, but, going by recaps and reactions, my biggest problem with the show is pretty nothing happens, the villains just stand around and aren’t remotely threatening, and the heroes barely take any kind of proactive action apart from fighting those who happen to be immediately in front of them.…

He’s telling me how much adventure is in this adventure show, which isn’t anywhere near sufficient.

Ah yes, the old “how can you be sure you wouldn’t like to pay $15 for the privilege of being kicked in the stomach while standing naked in a freezing rain, as a boombox blares a Chipmunk cover of Karma Chameleon, if you’ve never even tried it yourself?!” tack. LOL.

I admit I was being hyperbolic there, and indeed outright misrepresentative; the review was indeed considerably less glowing than recent ones. (But, “from a certain point of view,” shouldn’t anything other than a scathing takedown of this finale be seen as high praise?) :P

Unbelievable. It sounds even duller and less fun than I’d imagined, and I’d imagined a complete bore of a finale.

They also deem The Real Housewives of New Jersey and Top Chef worthy of coverage over Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, despite just about nonexistent comment sections. Hell, I’ve been saying for years that retro reviews of Rome would easily crush the comment sections of most of the shows they currently cover. (Not to…

LOL, what story? I’ve been reading all these recaps, and I don’t see much story being told. In seven episodes, two groups have skirmished a bit, to no real result, and traveled to another galaxy, where the bad guys have spent two episodes loading cargo. Also, the main character had a very long, weird dream, which…

The real burning question is, is this showing getting watched (and earning subscriptions) at anywhere near a reasonable rate? Or is it a big hit in anywhere near the same way that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was a $383m worldwide smash? Or is it a roaring success like Willow S1, which was removed from D+…

Look, I’m certainly no fan of Barsanti, but even he seems to appreciate that just because people are pew-pew!-ing and swoosh-swoosh!-ing at each other doesn’t mean the story is meaningfully advancing.

Just because people are pew-pew!-ing and swoosh-swoosh!-ing at each other doesn’t mean the story is meaningfully advancing.