I liked the first Maze Runner fine, but the sequels were terrible.

Important to remember that he came to Marvel after running Toy Biz for years. His primary goal, always, with every project he worked on, wasn’t to make the best film possible, but to merchandise the absolute shit out of them. He’s never cared, creatively, about the projects he worked on, only in how much he could make…

Or fucking Orci and Kurtzman.

I only have so much vomit in me...

Zelda...in live-action...produced by Avi Arad...

I literally cannot fathom a worse fate for a potential Zelda movie than those last two things...this is going to be an absolute fucking disaster.

Yeah...I mean, I don’t disagree, it just seems strange to me for them to do this now, with this show, after 15 years of “IT’S ALL CONNECTED, YOU CAN’T SKIP ANYTHING!!!”

Honestly, though, this is more in line with how comics work and I feel like this should have been the play for (almost) all the D+ shows from the…

That’s where things get muddy.

Despite what a lot of people like to put out there, the Netflix shows were never part of MCU canon, but Marvel could point to those and say “they already did that” to avoid having to retell the origin/early years of Matt and those characters again.

With them reportedly retooling DD to be…

I suppose but, like I said, that’s straight up bullshit. Echo is a sequel series, for all intents and purposes, to Hawkeye. One may not need to have seen Hawkeye to follow Echo, but I am certain it will add to the experience.

Like, You didn’t need to have seen Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Incredible Hulk, Thor, or Captain…

Winderbaum assured that audiences “[won’t] need to have seen other Marvel series to understand what’s happening in Maya’s story.

I know very, very little of Echo outside of a couple of minor comic appearances and her role in Hawkeye, so I have no stake here, but it’s always a great sign when the people responsible for adapting something call the source material “lame”.........fuck sake.

For sure, just pointing out that it does happen and a lot of actors do prefer to rehearse with their scene partners when/if possible.

Actors get together without anyone else from production present to run lines all the time, it’s an exceedingly common practice, especially if the script is fluid and/or the director encourages improvisation.

Possibly to brighten/clean it up a bit, but it’s from a series of very real test shots that were done before the film fell apart, and they’ve been online for ages.

Also because it is one of the very, very few MCU projects that is legitimately just straight up bad. With the sole exception of Olivia Coleman, everyone and everything in it sucks.

While Ilove him giving props to Coleen for her work, that suit looks sucks. Maybe it would have looked better on-screen, with proper lighting/grading, but it really just does look like a shitty rubber suit with a shittier plastic cape. He looks like a life-sized action figure, or those latex cowboy suits Primus wore…

So when I modded RE3 to give Nemesis his old head back instead of that goofy as fuck melted candle ass looking catastrophe, it was MY fault their design was bad.

Cool cool, noted.

I guess it’s good to go ahead and set a baseline while the tech is in its infancy so everyone figures out how to exploit the loopholes and technicalities as quickly as possible to make all this posturing entirely moot.

He produced/co-wrote it, had full creative control, final say on everything, and owns the IP...he’s almost certainly getting paid for views on Peacock. Or, rather, should be if we’re being fair to everyone (but, he sucks, so I hope he’s not).

Because we’re creatures of habit and people, by and large, are dumb and media illiterate. 

And the last couple seasons of The Flash were “designed” to be split into multiple mini-season chunks...spoiler: it didn’t fix anything.

Also, fwiw, I am 42 years old. I have spent most of my life watching shows that were 20+ episodes per season. It’s too much, it has always been too much, but networks had to sell as much ad space as possible to be able to keep making shows at all...with streaming, we don’t have to do that anymore. The whole point of…