That is the real beauty of the show, and why I can’t help but feel nervous about the adaptation. The anime gives you way more than it initially seems, in glances, in silences, in throwaway lines of dialog, in what they don’t show in getting from Point A to Point B, and the things they do show in the margins. But…

This isn’t explicitly stated but just about every other Red Dragon character we meet reacts to Spike along the lines of “I wish you hadn’t left” or “things would be different if you were still here” etc. Spike had everyone’s loyalty but didn’t give two shits about the power. Vicious wanted all of the power but had…

And just cost ScarJo dearly. I don’t think the comment was truly made with any ill intent but I don’t blame Liu for being defensive. It sucks that these two particular movies had to be the ones to play with the business model. Extenuating circumstances yes, and it’s easy to argue that of course they take chances with…

From the previews I’m getting the impression this will mostly be What If...Women?!? And while that’s great I’m beyond ready for Actually Women! Without an Asterisk! 

This is a show in it’s 5th season. It is behaving very much like a show in it’s 5th season. I have laughed several times each episode, sometimes because of an actual joke, sometimes because of the WTFness of it all. And every episode has kept my eyeballs on the screen with the sheer visual shenanigans of what is…

Mostly naked but non-threatening man who rides a giant kitty cat appeals to girls? Crazy.

Exactly. Having a general plan in mind without being a slave to it seems like the sweet spot of good writing to me. These movies are hugely successful for reasons beyond “audiences are uncultured simpletons.”

Or how every Twitter criticism or less-than-ideally phrased interview comment gets spun up into three articles worth of indignation and outrage.

Yeah, none of that bit really screamed "agency" to me. 

The reason for Disney’s skittishness is almost certainly the global market. I did the college program at Disney in 2001. At that time they were one of the few places offering same sex partner benefits and had a gay night club on campus at Disney World. This doesn’t make them beacons of social progress, it just points…

It has enough of my favorite pretty people being filmed prettily that they would have had me for an at-home viewing. That plus Marvel gets my ass to the theater.

I saw the show on Broadway when the original cast was long gone. I didn’t know anything about it going in, never heard the music before, loved it. Looked up a Ben Platt performance on YouTube later, and it was in an entirely different league. I’m glad I went into the show with no expectations. So I get why they were…

I’m happy to get this update but super annoyed that it took pretty much the whole of quarantine for them to do this. 

The fact that Cannonball by The Breeders was not used in Captain Marvel is a sin I can never forgive. 

Betty is concerned about ruining Archie with all her darkness...bitch, he’s been to prison. And was in a fight club in prison. And probably killed a couple people, I can’t really recall, but he was certainly murder adjacent a bunch of times and this was before he went to war.

I got some Crazy Rich Asians vibes off that for sure. “I want you to love me for me, so I will fail to mention some very specific things about me until you really have no choice but to give it a go.” I can empathize with the impulse but I still find it to be a dick move. 

I used to never cry at anything, was a badge of honor, in fact. Then I was alone at home, in the final death throes of a 7 year relationship, and watched Once. The first time they join each other for Falling Slowly, I full on sobbed. I think because what they were portraying was long gone in the relationship and that…

I had a problem with how easy she got off but I recognize I can be impossible to please in that sense. It bothers me when characters just brush off insane things happening like nothing but consequences are also a bummer to watch. Like Wanda jailed or forever haunted by her actions wouldn’t be satisfying. But even so.…

I love that song and was excited someone else remembered it from Tom and Jerry. Just wanted to say that. 

I try not to give too much shit about this, because I understand the real world complications of casting and that it would often stop plots from progressing BUT. Pepper Potts should have been on this. It apparently represents 3 billion dollars in Stark assets and was technically the husband of her work…