Considering that this review is probably one of the most positive out there for this show, that’s pretty doubtful.

I also really liked the book but my big complaint was the end. Throughout the book there’s this big dark secret or event hinted at which, I guess, is supposed to create suspense and carry the plot along and in the end, from what I remember, it’s a series of miscarriages? I understand I risk sounding insensitive here…

Doesn’t look low budget at all? And the effects fit that Scott Pilgrim aesthetic.

The powers swap is almost certainly because of $$$. The time/cost for special effects to make a convincing, non-uncanny valley-ish on screen version of Kamala’s comic powers is significantly higher than doing what they seem to be doing here. I doubt it has all that much to do with Fantastic Four or anything else…

Funny, I looked at each of the shows you mentioned with a sense of wonder and fun. I also look forward to seeing them, ill-fitting rubber suits and CW effects even.  

Potentially, sure! That’s been the dream of a la carte enthusiasts for like 40 years; while it would cost more to subscribe to everything, most people don’t want or need to so they end up not having to pay for all that chaff like you do with cable.

With the most recent Spiderman and Batman movies we’re just now getting back to where new releases are cultural events, and even being safely produced in the first place. People like to have some connection to the films that are nominated, otherwise it’s just plain old curiosity that can be fulfilled looking at your…

That’s a good point! Despite this article’s fishing (PENGUIN! FISH! that’s a joke, son!) for fanboy outrage, Oswald hasn’t smoked outside of the comics since the 60's

It’s because it broke out of its “angsty SERIOUS teenage generic CW drama” tv show origins into “absurd over the top hilarious superhero comedy where the writers’ room is clearly doing some of the hardest drugs known to man but gave the even harder drugs to the Doom Patrol writers” TV show. Definitely a lot of charm,…

And to be fair, big vox populi blockbuster movies have been nominated loads of times. It's just that the Academy really can't stand superhero movies in particular, unless they have pretensions of being something more than a superhero movie, like your Dark Knights or your Jokers.

As an editor, I can’t deny that few people watching the telecast really give a fuck about the category. They made a mistake cutting Hair and Makeup though.

oh i’m very excited to see what people who are young now have to say about it in the future, but yeah i don’t care about judd apatow’s take on it right now.

it’s still so crazy to me that the only reason miles morales exists is because donald glover wanted to play spider-man.

“...Smith’s titular South Philadelphia...”

I don’t care what genre it is, I have no interest in any movies or TV shows about COVID. I’m not sure what possible insight is available there that isn’t clear to us as we actually live through it. Maybe the people of fifty years from now might get something out of it.

Is it me, or has there seemed to be an unusual abundance of TV shows about world-destroying plagues based on comics/books in the last couple of years? ‘Sweet Tooth’, ‘Utopia’, ‘Y: The Last Man’, ‘Station Eleven’. Obviously, these are properties pre-dating the real life plague, but I don’t remember a bunch of shows…

Wild that in all this talk about animation there’s still no mention of the director shift to Joaquim Dos Santos, the guy responsible for this:

Eh not really the same thing IMO. Y had a cast announced in mid-2018 and took so long to get made that half of that cast dropped out and was replaced. Y didn’t start filming until almost two years later. Cowboy Bebop had its cast announced in April 2019 and started filming three months later.

I remember hearing this show was in development like 4-5 years ago and reading a few updates a year on it since. Kind of crazy to see something take so long to finally get made and then get cancelled so unceremoniously.

Yeah, he would have been great as King Robert, because he is always great, but they were supposed to be contemporaries and he doesn’t look like Sean Bean’s contemporary.