Yeah, goddamn those assholes for being considerate of human life!

I’m pretty sure the dog thing is her kids using their own powers—they’re clearly aware of things like time passing at an unusual rate, they seem to be able to defy her abilities (she couldn’t stop them from crying, for example) and even in utero they wreaked havoc on her powers. I wouldn’t take that as evidence that…

But notably, he had no more success in killing her than Monica did in negotiating with her. The “mistake” of not trying to kill her isn’t based on a moral calculation of whether or not she’s behind it all or doing what she thinks is the right thing or anything like that, it’s based on the very real and immutable fact…

I think he’s the Fox Quicksilver because they’ve been telling us since before the pandemic that Doctor Strange 2, Spider-Man 3, and WandaVision are all connected and will bring the multiverse into the MCU as a concept. When another movie-verse’s Quicksilver shows up after all that, why wouldn’t you think he was the…

Credit where it’s due, Feige is doing an excellent job of steering the MCU but the showrunner is Jac Schaeffer and she’s doing fucking incredible work here. I really hope she gets noticed, because this is the kind of thing that shows up well on the resume.

It’s an important distinction from an operational standpoint. If Wanda is a terrorist, then she has a political goal and she’s seeking to negotiate. If she’s had a break with reality and she’s doing all this out of misplaced grief, then the best approach would be to try to guide her back to reality and get her to…

That’s more likely a reference to Wanda herself. In the comics, her probability-manipulation powers are referred to as “hex bolts”, and she’s frequently described as “hexing” her opponents.

I think it’s both. I think that she “called” this Pietro from the Fox X-Men universe as a solution to the dilemma in her mind—she’s been thinking about Pietro, missing him, ever since ‘Geraldine’ brought him up, but she draws a distinction in her mind between resurrecting a synthezoid and undoing the death of an…

“He’s a next-generation replicant. A replicant designed to hunt other replicants, in fact. We’ve made him weaker than other replicants, slower, more susceptible to injury. We’re frankly pretty sure he’s going to get his ass handed to him as easily as a human would under the same circumstances. No... more easily, in…

I promise you, if you go back and watch it again you will spend the whole time saying, “How did I miss how obviously evil Lorca was?” I had it spoiled for me before I watched, and I was seeing clues _everywhere._

I hope this means we also see ‘The Jim Henson Hour’ and ‘Muppets Tonight’ come to the service eventually. ‘Muppets Tonight’, in particular, really felt like an updating of the classic show.

It’s a tough get, even for Disney. Because it’s a variety show, every single episode has a number of songs whose rights need to be cleared separately from the payments to actors, directors, et cetera - and because this was a pre-video, pre-streaming series, most of those things weren’t settled in the initial…

Yes, if you crossed it over with “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle”.

I think it feels a bit like they’re trying to get back to the older Trek vibe, where episodes were a little more self-contained instead of chapters in a story. I kinda dig it, to be honest.

From the looks of things, it could still be a divergence at a critical moment - Yondu got bad coordinates, or was distracted by the sheer mass of vibranium, and wound up picking up a different kid.

Um... have you read ‘The Twits’ lately? It’s one hundred percent about two people whose descriptions perfectly fit those of Eastern European Jews being described as horrible, gross, nasty people whose character shines out so clearly that it makes them physically ugly. The quiet part is said particularly loud in that…

Disco Haters: “GOD, I hate Discovery! Everything’s so bleak and joyless and there’s none of the hope and optimism I look for in Trek!”

You can also NOT read the article, move on with your life, and leave the space for a discussion of the episode to people who watched the episode.

I dunno, it worked for me because Gabrielle had that little speech at the beginning saying, “It’s so cute that you think this is about facts and logic and reasoning, honey! Oh no no no. They’re all walking in with their minds closed, looking for an excuse to tell you to fuck right off, and nothing you say to them will…

I think I know where they’re going next episode! I also think I know what caused the Burn! The planet they’re on in the “Next Time on...” sequence looks a lot like an autumnal Pahvo, the planet they went to back in Season One with the sentient trees that made Saru turn on the crew. It had a natural crystalline antenna…