What I mean is that I felt betrayed by the people entrusted with this thing that has all of this history and means a lot to me.

I mean, it’s how I feel. I neither begrudge others for feeling differently nor am I trying to speak for anyone other than myself.

They’re quite similar in a lot of ways, just tonally near-opposites.

So, I have a very deep loathing for The Last Jedi and I feel that Lucasfilm has made a number of choices in recent years that haven’t contributed to good storytelling.

I dislike TLJ for a lot of reasons. I think that it’s a mediocre film and a lousy Star Wars sequel, it bummed me out massively and I think that it gets far too much credit for being intrepid.

Yeah, I’ll agree. I think that the veneer of Schumacherian 90s wackiness obscures a story that has in some ways more substance to it than the other Batman films of the era. And the wackiness isn’t completely unenjoyable for me.

I’ve never thought that Batman Forever is terrible or irredeemable. Sure, it’s the 90s high-caffeine-soda version of Batman and Tommy Lee Jones should be playing Two-Face darker and more menacing, but there’s a lot to enjoy about it.

I’d rather watch an Ant-Man film in between heavy Thanos chapters than probably just about any other MCU type of film. I don’t think that one can expect something on the scale of and with the audacity of (relatively speaking) Infinity War without it being spread over a couple of years, and I’m just glad that we’re…

That recent film was actually pretty solid from a character standpoint. The Power Rangery parts were the weakest unfortunately, but they’ve got a good young cast and I’d watch a sequel if it was a little less awkward with the Zords and villains.

In spite of the cloud of heaviness over the MCU right now, the thought of Nebula and Iron Man stuck alone together puts a smile on my face.

Yeah, I’d forgotten about that moment, but it was one of those cases where you just know that a character is going to do something horribly foolish, and in spite of the fact that it’s in character for him—Quill is basically a big kid living in his own personal roleplaying fantasy, or at least he seems given over to…

I’ll go with all of that, except regarding the Asgardians, they’ve suffered enough so I hope that Thor doesn’t end another film broken, and is Valkyrie accounted for? I assumed that was alive somewhere; the Tessa Thompson goat newswire did nothing to clear up my confusion.

I don’t think it would’ve been any more jarring for me than seeing Yoda in TFA, and Yoda didn’t jar me. It was like ‘wow’ but it made sense, just as Guinness would’ve.

Due to the nature of his/her code name, I’m neither able nor at liberty to say more than I already have.

It’s only in the limited-edition Star Wars pack that Crayola released earlier this month, which also includes the likes of ‘darth ocher.’

I was cooler on Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange than I’ve ever been on another lead MCU actor, but I like him more in Infinity War, I think.

I was just mesmerized by the machine, but this being the first I’d heard of the incident, curiosity took me to the actual YouTube page (I know) and there is a lot of feeback framing him as a people’s champion. This comment in particular caught my eye:

I get what is being said here about the meat-and-potatoes aspect of the conflict being seldom seen or felt, but considering that this episode includes a Martian nuke striking Earth and likely killing millions, ‘theoretical’ isn’t a word I’d use and, uh...there’s definitely an impact.

I totally get what you’re saying, but I’m fine with the show keeping the timing neat and compressed. Realism, in this case, would drag the scene out. If anything, they should’ve staggered the launches for simultaneous impact.

If I recall correctly, the entire original team is still alive, so I halfway expect it to be a reprisal of the first Avengers film, spiked by Captain Marvel.