Exactly. It seems like Walker was a decent enough person before, but the pressure of the legacy isn’t something he can handle.

In the First Avenger, Erskine explicitly states that the Super Soldier Serum amplifies everything about a person, not just their body. The Red Skull became a genocidal monster because, well, he’s a fucking Nazi. They’ve never really gone too much into Bruce Banner’s mental health issues prior to becoming the Hulk, but…

The first and last things are the only things I can’t make work in my head. The Data thing could work if they showed Starfleet trying to rebuild Data and failing and Picard is looking at it as him losing a crewmember.

I’m going to say this and catch flak:

Yes, exactly this. But it needs a build-up. There’s no way it would have worked in a single movie— but if the movie had dropped in a world where Enterprise had a fifth season focused on the Earth-Romulan War and then Beyond happened? Hell yes.

Beyond was pretty damn fun. The villain was weak, but all of the Kelvin movies have paper tigers for villains. But it was the one movie that felt like a fresh take on classic Trek.

Given the “success” of the recent TV shows set in the Prime Timeline, I’d say it’ll be something involving that. Whether it brings back any previously seen characters? Probably one or two, but with a new, younger cast they can milk a trilogy out of.

WB hired a trailer house to edit the movie and tested that version and Ayer’s version and then mashed what the test audiences liked from each cut together; hence the mess.

The extended cut is better in that it’s more coherent, but it’s not actually a better movie.

Both movies have the same bones. I’m loathe to give Whedon any credit, but he made a watchable movie with a couple of great character moments (Batman’s pep talk to Flash, Superman talking to the kids at the beginning, Superman in the last act) out of a self-serious slog. Best-case scenario, the studio would have cut…

Fun fact: According to Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, the blood ink was accidentally used in an issue of Sports Illustrated.

The CGC is such a fucking scam.

As much as I loathe Dean Cain and his politics, I don’t recall anyone complaining they cast a man of Asian descent as Superman.

The “he co-wrote 52 which had a lesbian in it so he can’t be racist/homophobic” is the definition of reaching.

I saw a quote from Greg Rucka (I think) who, when asked his opinion on Nolan’s Batman films, replied, “I think they’re very good crime movies ashamed to be about Batman.” That’s stuck with me for a while.

With Thor and Iron Man, you can have someone inherit the hammer or armor. Thunderstrike, Jane Foster and War Machine are all fan favorites in the comics and they’ve made sure that Don Cheadle appears in every nearly movie involving Tony Stark. With Cap and Widow, I think you need to give their characters and actors a…

I have a cocktail on the menu at work that pairs maple syrup with bourbon and housemade barbecue bitters. It’s absolutely delicious.

It’s certainly my favorite. And it manages to give every member of the cast a fair shake. Michael Dorn did DS9 and First Contact and Worf got a lot of great things and then he got thrown in the rest of TNG flicks for no reason other than he was on the show.

My wife and I chose April 5th for our wedding because of this event.

I can dream.