You do realize that there is a middle ground between “everything Marvel does is amazing” and “there’s some superhero fatigue so everything Marvel makes is an unsalvageable mess,” right? Yes, recently some things have been underwhelming (Quantumania, Secret Invasion), and some have underperformed (The Marvels), but…

I’ll take Davies worship over the opposite, which seems to be Youtubers that decry all three 60th anniversary specials as focusing on a LGBT/political/woke agenda instead of just what they consider to be “good sci-fi”.

“But jeez, the Davies worship is just excessive.”

God, if only the Whitaker years had been “Broadchurch but with aliens.” Broadchurch was consistently good.  I feel genuinely sorry for Chibnall: the thing he wanted to do most in the world turned out to be something that he was very bad at. I hope he’s got another downbeat police procedural left in him.

Marvels was great. Much more fun and decidedly less convoluted than Captain Marvel. Khamala Khan is a lightning bolt of charisma. There were laugh-out-loud funny scenes, musical numbers, and a villain that actually had legitimate beef. I can’t understand the pillorying it’s getting. My thought after watching it was,…

Can we stop with the bizarre hang-wringing about The Marvels? Look at how apologetic the writers are about labeling it disappointing. “Perhaps no other film had a steeper road to climb this year than The Marvels,” it begins, unconvincingly. Then it blames the rest of the MCU (despite literally every MCU movie doing…

I used to think Michael Bay was the worst director, but at least he had the self awareness to know he was making high concept schlock. He always knew he was a hack, and was okay with that.

Should have Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

I’m not sure how you walk out of In Bruges thinking it was a comedy or that it was a comedic role.  He said some funny things, but it’s a dramatic, visceral, tragic film.  

Clooney and the Coens remind me, Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading.  Or the tandem of David Rasche and JK Simmons.

What else doesn’t make a lick of sense is that IO9 once again offers series analysis from a writer who admits mid-article that they haven’t seen the show.

Marvel’s obsession with committing genocide over and over again is more than a bit unsettling at this point. With how often its come up its seeming like the message that Marvel is trying to send is less ‘genocide bad’ more ‘minorities aren’t allowed nice things and if you start to get happy we’ll kill you all off’.

I came to say just about exactly this, but you said it better.

Not sure it alienated anyone. It was just lazy writing.

Yeah, this is how I felt, but I wanted to see if anyone else had a strong argument for the show ultimately succeeding.

Yes, exactly. The more they try to pretend that the series has anything to do with the Foundation novels, the siller they sound.

This interview seems like it has more red flags than the first season. Back to back cliffhanger finales? original plan for 8 seasons? 2 years between 1 and 2? Sounds like a zero percent chance of this series ending with dignity and closure. The show definitely has some excellent elements, but I’m very glad I hadn’t…

This is a truly terrible take. You’re aware that most movies aren’t made because fans specifically called for a certain plot to be made, and the filmmakers just do it, right? That’s idiotic. And PWB is incredibly likeable in everything I’ve ever seen her in. Sorry your action heroes can only ever be men. Must be a sad…

Troll says what?

Yeah, except that method has been tried and it doesn’t work. All it does is give these people more supporters.