I love Whedon’s work. It is a big reason I work in the TV industry. But the shit people describe from the Buffy was not acceptable. I’ve worked with arsehole directors and producers, but nothing where every female cast member is traumatised 20 years later. Where the director isn’t allowed around one of the shows stars…

I like Pratt a lot but he’s wrong for Indy. As the Blank Check guys like to point out, he’s great when playing an overgrown manchild (Guardians, Lego, Parks, Onward) and not very compelling at all when cast as an adult (Jurassic World, Passengers). 

Johnson, Craig and the cast worked cheap on the first one. Now that it’s proven to be massively popular, it’s a sellers market. I’d much rather he took time and did two movies properly rather than churning out a bunch of them.

Judging by my right wing family member, they use socialist as a synonym for authoritarian. Big tech limits their freedom of speech and siphons off their data to snitch on them and collaborate with the authoritarian/socialists/wokies in power to limit their freedoms. These are all steps to gradually merge government…

I hate the “they’re too lazy to create an original thing” criticism. Almost every major writer or director wants to make original things. But a studio will give people 100 million to make Thudercats or Face Off. There’s a reason that after The Guest at $5m, everything he makes afterwards is some sort of established…

Those are a lot of good points. As great as TNG ending is, its a much simpler show to wrap up than Battlestar. It had a stronger status quo, fewer mysteries, few big serialised arcs, etc. So TNG could focus on Picard and the characters whereas BSG had a lot more spinning plates.

Tom Reilly has been around for many years and I’ve always thought he was solid but unremarkable. I gotta say though, this minimalist style is gorgeous. The inks and colours really working well with it.

Fair. I’m not saying it doesn’t matter how it ended. But if you watched a show for the 80 hours it takes to get to the end, chances are the person in charge is a pretty good writer/showrunner.

Sone people get too hung up on TV show endings and it’s shame.

I think his plotting is top notch. Not complicated, but very well paced and he knows his setup payoffs. I agree with you that his characters are normally very shallow archetypes, but I thought the characters in Jupiter books were leaps ahead of his usual work. Having to figure out their entire lives over decades has…

I know people generally don’t like Miller but the Jupiter books are pretty good. It helps that they have Quitely art in one, but in general, doing multiple trades in two time periods means Miller can dig a bit deeper than normal, character wise. It’s got a lot more going on than his usual 5 issue mini thats clearly a…

“Darcy is way too aware of the specifics of Vision’s death in Avengers: Infinity War.”

Straight Up (based on the trailer) is doing a lot of cool shit with composition and movement but i think the actual lighting is kinda drab for the most part. Those soft light, low contrast interiors just aren’t particulaely aesthetically pleasing. And cinematography oscar noms usually go to the prettiest ‘every frame…

No idea. I wouldn’t put it past him to throw in a standup special or a Lemonade/Guava Island “visual album” or something crazy. He’s so talented in so many different areas and Atlanta has shown he’s very experimental, so I’m hoping he does some really weird stuff.

It’s hard to know how I’d have reacted without preconceived notions. His English accent is a very retro one, I think a kind of performative 50s posh that has long died out, even among the rich. That said, I can well believe some of those guys hung around in suit shops in the 80s. I just wasn't always sure how much of…

I’m not trying to do NPH dirty, he’s an incredibly talented performer. But he’s most famous for being in a massive sitcom* where he played a guy obsessed with suits. Casting him as a posh Brit in a suit shop, while surrounding him with unknown real Brits makes him stand out.

Yeah, I don’t begrudge him in the slightest. If I was an actor I’d kill to work for Davies, nevermind NPH having been a gay teen when AIDS came along and the story is set. And you’re right, it probably helped commissioning.

It’s not just Atlanta though, is it? He’s also a very successful and critically acclaimed standup, singer and actor outside of that show.

His accent is good, though even though he’s excellent, it’s slightly distracting to have a famous American sitcom star in amongst a cast of largely British unknowns. That said, its a minor distraction in a truly brilliant TV show.

The aspect ratio thing is driving me nuts. He composed for 1.85:1 (according to his DP) but because he shot on 4 perf film, he has decided in post to expand out the tops and bottom of the frame to deliver 4:3? So instead of a nicely composed rectangle the shape of everyone’s TV, we get a version with black bars and…