I’d go so far as to say the general thematic thrust of not being able to ever truly control people, and especially those you love/family is going to factor into both the emotional and narrative climax. The situation re: Wanda/town’s consciousness reminds me a bit of the Yeerks from Animorphs crossed with the beings…

Was this Pietro snatched from a different universe, one where he’s still alive?

That’s ridiculous. The movie makes it very clear that going back in time and changing things doesn’t actually change what happened in your timeline, it just creates a new one. So you’d just be leaving the world where everyone was snapped, and creating one where they weren’t. How is that *better* than bringing everyone…

Is it really “selfish” to want to keep people alive? It’s not as if Tony’s daughter is the only person born since the snap.

This show has its exciting moments, but I definitely have some nitpicks. I know it’s for continued drama, but after 7 long years Big Alice shows up IMMEDIATELY after pressure finally boiled over into revolution? Not while still under Wilford’s system or after Layton had had a moment to consolidate? And Wilford made it…

I'm glad I'm not the only one getting Annihilation vibes. Very heavy at the end of this episode.

“You can tell it has aged poorly because many people have misinterpreted it” seems like a non sequitur of an argument to me.

I don’t think any of the retro-TV jokes are going to connect with him or others not from the USA.

The Stark Toaster is the FIRST thing that shows color, the warning light is red.

The first episode was more ‘50s “in front of a live studio audience” until like you say, the eerie witch during the choking scene. The second ep leapt ahead to the early ‘60s early Bewitched Era with a single cam and locations that were not a sound studio. The reviewer is lumping the episodes into one era, when…

“looks like a 1950s TV sitcom”

Also...why did Steve’s soul have to take over someone else’s body? There’s no reason in the film to think the Dreamstone couldn’t just reconstitute Steve in his own, fresh body. We’re never shown that such a limitation exists, it’s so weird to have decided the best way to incorporate Steve was to have him inhabit some…

Counterpoint: Donald on DuckTales (2017) is a loving father figure to the boys and has gone to anger management therapy to be a better parent for them.

My only other thought is that, given the similarities to The Lord of the Rings which must’ve been apparent to the creators early on in this production, a conscious decision was made to ditch the bow and arrows lest the witches basically just become elves.

As you may have seen, I have given it much too much thought, and this is an occupational hazard I want to be very clear you should not adopt for no reason.

Asimov once said that the most exciting words in science were “that’s funny”; taking a cursory look into things that seem a little odd isn’t really out of character for a scientist to me. In a series that involves daemons, armoured bears, and sentient dark matter it’s not the point that will break my suspension of…

Lots of scientists have spiritual beliefs, and the story deliberately makes parallels between scientific theory and religious texts, so I don’t think it’s particularly implausible that a physicist has some I Ching sticks lying around in the show.

I think the Screech character is a super-dated element that you can’t plausibly update at all, not even in a winking irony way. That whole “skinny nerd loser with pocket protector and think glasses who builds robots” just isn’t a cultural thing, any more. Same with the other background nerd characters. And the jock…

Exactly. As a PhD holder I’ve changed (sub)fields several times as topics come and go out of favor since getting my PhD twenty years ago, but I wasn’t required to get any other degrees to do so. It’s kind of expected that people with doctorates are life-long learners so you just read some papers in the field you are…

I saw him in concert once and The Cure was playing at a big venue close by. Bragg got us to scream and yell as loud as we could so we could freak out Robert Smith.