I really liked this bit, it did play like a fully realized character in a way that I enjoyed, but in any case I don’t think that whether or not teens watch SNL is the point. It’s older people *raises hand* laughing at stereotypical teenisms.

I just came across this - how in the living daylights can it not yet have merited a newswire here?

I’ve never watched any of these movies, but changing ‘Peeta’ to ‘Peter’ is kinda funny. The Hunger Games characters all seem to have slightly off-kilter names and the notion that they can be parodied by replacing them with extremely pedestrian monikers, that amuses me a bit.

The episode title in the first paragraph seems to be just slightly (though understandably) off. I clicked really expecting a Flash-Bigfoot or at least Flash-Lithgow encounter.

Yeah. I was thinking maybe a Wanted poster on a wall with his face on it, but your idea makes more sense.

At some point, everything is fan-service. I’d say that Star Wars is pretty much there already. But ‘fan-service’ need not be a pejorative label.

Because the Falcon is relevant to Han Solo but 3PO isn’t, I’d say that’s why not.

G&R’s Appetite for Destruction. It has all the hallmarks of classic arena rock—costumed, long-haired white guys cranking out loud guitar rock in huge venues

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.