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5. The Lower Decks crew ends up on Talos IV where they encounter Pike (and Vina?) still alive thanks to Talosian medical technology. The “real world” stuff is animated and the Talosian illusions are live-action. Pike relives a particular memory/event to help with Lower Decks’ problem-of-the-week.

It is homemade.

They recently announced there will be more hearings in September.

Others apparently do not care for this abomination.

GoT had a perfect sequel/spin-off set up with Arya sailing off to explore the world. If Maisie didn’t want to reprise the role, just hire a few other people to play the character since Arya can now change her face/appearance. Explore new places and dive into the lore of the world outside Westerose.

The Pokemon IP is owned by the Pokemon Company. The Pokemon Company is owned by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. Nintendo has about a 10% stake in Creatures. Nintendo does however own a number of the trademarks and copyrights for Pokemon. But it isn’t fully Nintendo’s call on Pokemon. I also believe Game Freak was…

R.O.B. could work because the core concept -a robot that plays video games- is a great blank slate. Hell, the robot could easily be Nintendo’s version of T.O.M. from Toonami, anchoring entire blocks of Nintendo animated content.

I think people are saying the cancer plotline didn’t have enough time because the movie didn’t really show her being that sick. With stage 4 and on chemo, she should have been way thinner, BALD, and not so peppy. The film should have done a better job contrasting her being deathly ill as Jane vs full of pep and…

When they do Secret Wars they are gonna reboot the MCU, so odds are they will try to bring in as many fan favorites as possible for one final send-off.

I hope it is just because people are more invested in Steve than Sam; given Steve had a lot more screen time and character development in the movies while The Falcon and Winter Soldier didn’t exactly excite everyone for more Sam Wilson.

Hemmer is gone, but the actor is coming back to play some other role. In an interview on 7th Rule podcast, Strange New Worlds writer and co-executive producer Davy Perez said Bruce Horak will return to the show.

The whole trip and the introduction of the Red Daggers should all have been season 2, maybe season 3.

You can do a lot with fixed budget if you are smart with your story and you keep the budget in mind. The show had far more characters and locations/sets than it really needed.

The show needed someone to come in to fix the scripts and keep the creatives in check. They just jump around from idea to idea like someone with ADHD, occasionally hyperfocusing on a story element before abandoning it for the next shiny thing.

It doesn’t need more episodes, it needed someone to come in and focus the story.

Marvel really needs to get some good script doctors in to clean up the shows. All of them could have used one or two more passes before production. Ms. Marvel really needed another pass at the script to tighten up not just individual episodes, but the series as a whole.

For some reason they wanted to make it so that Kamala/a human-djinn hybrid is the the only one that could use the bangle, but then realized they had her great grandma using it, so had to fit in a closed time loop to shore up the plot hole.

They are trying to do way too much with the show in too short of a time. The writing has been very clunky from the beginning and could really have used someone to go back and tighten up all the scripts.

Depending on how long the series runs, I could see them having Pike go in to save the kids and accept his fate only for him to somehow come out of it more or less unharmed. It would be a great way to end season 3 or 4 and establish anything is now possible.