counterpoint:

can we do something about the color draining filter they use in the Kent farmhouse? Hell, all of Smallville looks like the first thing that left home was the color. I get the “warm, sepia, small town vibe” without looking like they had a visit from Zack Snyder

It’s not going to be Reed Richards.

Hey Gatekeeper! Any word from the Key Master?

thank you Gate Keeper.. any word from the Key Master?

could you give me an answer that doesn’t rely on first year criticism cliches?

that would eliminate a whole genre of sports biopics where the great athlete suffers an injury and has to cope with the life change. Are those stories not worth telling?

I don’t remeber them specifically, but they’d most likely be in the fantasy sequences and therefore easily fast forwarded thru without really compromising the narrative

No insult or insensitivity intended, but I had a couple of thoughts after seeing the film and this seems to be a proper place to express them.

so...”Brother from another Planet”  v2.0?

“Superhero landing..she’s gonna do the superhero landing..."

an inside out X-Files  where the FBI is called in to prove that cases are NOT connected to aliens or superhumans.

 Doesn't change a thing. You can't introduce a character, then claim that that character has anything unearned. Its lazy criticism. You can say something came out of nowhere only after you know the parameters. Every plot point the author references happen in the first 3 episodes. Barely scratching the surface.

Michael Burnham came along?

I just love how you go to this year’s favorite criticism cliche of “unearned emotion” -really I nominate it for the”fridged” award for lazy critique.

Star Wars and Bond films were made in England. Were they foreign films?
Is any film shot in a language other than english a foreign film? Even if it was filmed in Cleveland?

which feeds my pet theory that “they” are drawing from the kind of shows Wanda would have seen as a child in Sokovia as their templates for “normality”

I agree with everything your artical says but would labor the point that It looked more like the Dick Van Dyke show than I Love Lucy.

i believe it was set in the far off time of 2024

12 Monkeys taught him nothing!