Grace Caroline Currey. Her name is in the title of the article.

I would say more than foreshadowed but maybe I’m just better at subtext than our friend here. On a sidenote, there were lots of audible "aww!"s of support in the theatre when it was made clear, which was a sweet moment.

The character being gay was foreshadowed in the first film, so it’s not a retcon. He’s a supporting character & his orientation isn’t highlighted in the marketing, so it’s not like this was a prime factor in SHAZAM 2's underwhelming box office.

I don’t believe you’re actually LOLing

I hope you enjoy Shazam 2 as I did. I thought it was perfectly average, with no plans to ever see it again, but was worth the watch just once. Not terrible, not amazing. 

Are you quoting the article at itself?

he was good at making very solid B content for actual children (especially at a time where everyone’s expectations were basement-level), but now that push has come to shove it just ain’t it.

For years, people have been clamoring for Filoni to be the Star Wars Kevin Feige, but the more we see, the more control he’s given, the less I like Star Wars.

Filoni is definitely super overrated. Yes, the Clone Wars was generally good, but it’s far from the untouchable masterpiece that most people think it is and had plenty of wonky or dumb elements.

We’re not talking about adapting a story to accommodate different cultural sensibilities, bringing different themes/techniques to new eyes or saving something from disappearing on a dying medium.

I’ve long felt like I’ve been marooned on an island in the Star Wars fandom for not liking the Filoni method of storytelling. For those playing along at home, that’s (1) find something you like that someone else already did, (2) have your own characters repeat it (often while lifting entire lines of dialog verbatim),…

the very second it becomes convenient, they became just as evil as the villains they won a war against. See also: the victor of every war ever, in real life and in fiction.

(Not to bring up the other show, but this is the second time we’ve seen office life on Coruscant, and Andor’s was much bleaker.)

I think its good and even necessary for the longevity of massive universes like Star Wars to have different flavors and approaches, but this one definitely felt like Favreau got a look at Andor and thought they were stealing his lunch a little

Considering the major unresolved thread of the show is why, exactly, the Imperial remnants wanted Grogu, this was 100% about putting that train back on track. And it frankly seems like groundwork to set up the whole Snoke / Palpatine stuff from the sequel trilogy, since it was infamously… uh, underexplained.

I wish people would stop rewarding (and remaking) sub-par cinema. The so-bad-it’s-good/How Did This Get Made-style contingents have drained some of the joy out of this game.

Just as long as we don’t see any ancient Jedi temples with magic powers that extend far beyond anything ever seen in regular Star Wars stories (Filoni’s most frustrating trope), I’ll be okay.

Ellie doesn’t need an incredible sense of direction not to get lost. She had footprints in the snow. The same way the group managed to track her down so easily.

And S2 was pretty fucking amazing.

Space alligators is ornery because they gots all them space teeth and no space toothbrush.