“Thank God, this is why we should be more like Russia. Arrest all those damn LIE-berals! I am unaware of the concept of turnabout and hilariously question other people’s patriotism despite my ironic misunderstanding of American freedom!’

I’ve told this story before, but outside of a Birmingham there is a forrest on land once owned by US Steel. In that Forrest are hundreds of small indentations that serve as the only visual evidence of hundreds of unmarked graves, black men arrested under Jim Crow and worked to death in the Pratt City mines and buried…

... So Kinja doesn’t support html coding, huh?

You know what? I say go for it. Do nothing but one-shots. Draw from the characters’ histories, but draw from whatever version of those histories you need to, and do it in an accessible way.

Because, as much as I do get a bit of a dopamine rush from understanding sprawling continuities like Earth 616 and the MCU, when I…

I kinda like the idea of DC abandoning the aggressive extended universe model where everything is interconnected. Marvel does a great job with it, but they’ve shown how hard it get to keep everything canonical and connected with their essential abandonment of the TV universe, and the establishment of a giant blue blob…

I don’t know, but I know I wouldn’t have cared as long as the movies were good. As far as I’m concerned the only good one is Wonder Woman, and the rest are either okay, or unbearable.

Yes, it’s clearly intentional that Danny is both naive and not in control of his Iron Fist power, though I’m really not sure why on the latter point. (There’s a moment in the Iron Fist series where we see a clip of a previous IF doing stuff Danny didn’t even think was possible, and it’s like WHY I WOULD RATHER WATCH…

I thought the door was just a door keeping the bad guys away from the magical goo pool that New York was floating on. Also, why is New York floating on a magic goo pool? Also, why is the magic goo in the magic goo pool referred to as “the substance”? And also was it the bones or the goo?

Watching The Defenders, I’m glad that I skipped Iron Fist, the show. I thought that Danny’s mostly a fine character, especially when he’s the upbeat one of the ground, even if I found it a little weird how quickly his PTSD from failing K’un-L’un seems to have faded.