I’d highly recommend Peacemaker. Cena’s really good, from improvisational comedy chops to full on emotional breakdowns it all feels like a full character. That’s not easy to pull off given the absurdity of the character to begin with. Props to Gunn too.

I’mpulling you out of the grays JUST to tell you that (a) you’re wrong, and (b) go fuck yourself. It was on streaming.

so NORBIT 2 would be an ADAPTATION?  That might be the stupidest thing I have ever heard so I don’t doubt it is the case.

Good to see Andrea Riseborough nominated, though.

“What the fuck are Top Gun and Glass Onion adapted from?”

What are you even talking about

I think the point is that the Authority is ALREADY actually just another angel that has usurped the role of an omnipotent creator god, so introducing a second angel that usurped the role of that first angel is a little uneconomical as far as plotting goes.

Fate’s death was dumb as hell though.  He could have just, like, moved instead of suiciding. 

Almost as if the director was super into Randian objectivist wankery and treated us all to tedious “why must the strong sacrifice for the weak?” debates in a sad attempt to be deep.

He can’t, DC traded him to Marvel for Gunn, along with a 2023 first round pick and a conditional fourth rounder in 2024. It seems like a tough deal, but DC needed leadership, and Marvel had the Cap space for him after Evans left.

I can forgive a good bit about Man of Steel, but that really was the worst take on Jonathan Kent ever.

It absolutely would be hard to do that in a live action series.  Still, I guess even the fantasy settings were a bit more distinctively *weird* or stylized?  As the Variety critic I quoted says, they felt a bit too “typical Netflix fantasy adaptation”.  (And again, I genuinely am largely pleased with the show.)

Yes, now that I’m nearly done the series, I completely agree that episode three is where they really really should have tried harder to make it gritty. I got in an idiotic Twitter argument when I commented on someone’s tweet that I was disappointed that Joanna seemed, well, so *put together*. OK, they went on about…

what’s grammatically or stylistically incorrect about “could’ve?”

I’m genuinely surprised how anyone can say that this show nails the Sandman vibe. Don’t get me wrong I don’t hate it at all, and so far am quite content with the show. But it can’t be denied that it’s much more dark in style, much more noir. What I loved about the comics is how technicolour, wild and fantastical they…

Got mid-way through the third episode, and my summation is really that Sandman-the-show is bad in the same ways Incredibles 2 was bad. Nothing in it is objectionable: it’s well-cast, it’s competently shot, the effects are not egregiously awful, the story beats are clear, the pacing is smooth, but it has absolutely noth…

Rorschach’s backstory was a change I actually liked, since if it was supposed to be the moment he snapped it seemed more realistic to brutally murder the guy versus sadistically leave him to die.

I thought the “glossiness” of the adaptation was particularly noticeable in the third, Constantine-focused, episode. Britain as seen through John Constantine in that era was grungy, greasy, low-rent, working class. Mad Hettie fit right in.

You don’t have to have any understanding of the process in order to critique the result. It doesn’t matter how hard it is to make something, all we need to know is does it work? Yes or (in this case, mostly) no.

The documentary delves into this, and it looks like from the episode preview the show will as well, how Conrad and Michelle’s ersatz relationship could also be toxic, with him threatening her and calling her names and such.  And indeed she had on previous encounters urged him to get help and been a voice of support. …