Someone calling themself “superepicfluffynerfherder” has whimsicality issues?

SPACES GO AFTER PUNCTUATION, NOT BEFORE.

Several years back, I was tearing through the Essential X-Men trades, and it was so interesting how by around volume 5 or 6, they stopped primarily consisting of X-Men books. You’d get maybe 6 X-Men issues, but then a Thor, a Spider-man, three New Mutants, an X-Factor, and an Avengers. It was like watching the…

I don’t imagine that everyone watching Endgame knew who every character in the final battle was. But it’s easy to introduce a lesser-known supporting character with a few lines of throwaway dialogue, especially if their power set is based on some preexisting hero. I mean, “She-Hulk” is pretty much self-explanatory. 

IIRC originally Dr. Strange was going to show up in the second half of the show, and presumably this would set up Wanda as the villain of Multiverse of Madness. But COVID caused a change of plans, and the roles of the third-act good guys shifted to Monica and Darcy.

Is Barney even all that beloved by people in their thirties? It always seemed like a show aimed at very small children whose cognitive faculties hadn’t matured yet. As soon as they moved on to preschool and kindergarten and started forming relationships with other kids their affections would fade pretty quickly, hence…

Wait, Bruce Wayne is a goddamned orphan?

It seems kinda apples and oranges. Kodos was a Federation official who mass murdered his own citizens in an effort to save his colony, and then spent the rest of his life in hiding, pretending to be a Shakespearean actor. The implication was that he felt guilty of his crimes but could only express it through his…

I’ve always wanted to see an adaptation of John M. Ford’s Pocket TOS novel How Much For Just The Planet?, in which the Enterprise discovers a planet whose culture is based on 1930s Hollywood musicals and slapstick comedies, though Lower Decks would probably be better suited for it.

Maybe they could shoot the whole thing handheld on the sidewalks.

Disney Kool-Aid? This is straight-up Marvel and DC shit. The “good guys” in those comics do horrible things all the time but they get redeemed for it all the time. Jean Grey and Magneto have committed genocide multiple times and they’re still heroes, or occasionally anti-heroes, in the X-Men comics. Morpheus condemned…

Uh-huh. Again, this is not about whether or not Wanda is a good person, it’s whether or not she’s the protagonist of her show. And again, she is!

I’d never heard of Polly Pocket before this week. But then again, I am a dude in his early fifties. (Seriously, when I heard the name I thought of “poly pockets,” which is shorthand for notebooks and folders with pockets inside. Like this was a toy designed to get kids excited about office work or something.)

But bad people do get away with bad things in real life, thanks to connections or privileges, as Wanda does thanks to her Avenger status. And most of the time, they don’t even see themselves as bad. This is the kind of realism and literary depth that fans have been wanting to see in movies and shows based on comics…

None of those sentences are making the arguments you think they are.

“Protagonist: the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.”

You realize that it’s possible to have sympathetic portrayals of bad or conflicted people in fiction, right? Whether or not you like her as a character, Wanda was the protagonist of WandaVision and the show explored her traumas, motivations, conflicts, and ethical shortcomings from inside her perspective.

Big “so it goes” energy.

I watched the first episode and it was like watching an early episode of AoS under the influence of some bad edibles.

“If you don’t watch FATWS, you won’t know how Sam became Captain America before Captain America 4. If you don’t watch WandaVision or Ms. Marvel, you won’t know who the other two leads in Captain Marvel 2 are. If you don’t watch Hawkeye, you won’t understand why Hailee Steinfeld randomly shows up in Avengers 6.”