You’re confusing physique (form and structure of the body) and physicality (aspects of physical presence, quality of movement).

How did you live through the 1990s without encountering THAT DAMNED MAGIC EYE THING?

I’m going to have to disagree with you here. Those two themes aren’t separate. The overt “putting down” is just the cruder form, and it can be easier — or simpler at least — to fight or get back up from. Erasure of role models, support, history, and the self-understanding that that context gives . . . that’s what…

The thing about the music, whether it’s Nirvana, No Doubt, or Hole, is that it’s non-diegetic. So the question is less whether it would literally make sense for the character to be hearing it in the narrative than whether it has  thematically appropriate effect.

Giving Carol a female role model / mentor who gets erased from her history is really resonant with real life erasure of women’s history and the effects that has had. So, a small “non-necessary” change becomes a lot more powerful when you add in the context, maybe watching it in pairing with Hidden Figures.

Hell yes. Very strong social criticism there. I think one of the more impressive things about the movie is how it hits these very strong points as integral plot and character development (critique of imperialistic war mindset that attacks refugees as terrorists — women’s role models and support structures erased from…

Per the actual lines in the movie, Carol has spent the past six years being told that her emotions are a weakness and that she has to control them. It’s literally last act when she realizes that that’s a lie to hold her back.

It’s perfect that he’s 1) totally cagey about losing his eye to a cat, 2) encouraging a badass mythology of big fish stories about how he lost his eye, 3) the cat was a seriously scary alien, and 4) Nick Fury was a total puddle of doting cat lover and got mauled for it.

My partner was hoping it would be Goose that took Fury’s eye. He’s very happy that it actually happened. I think it’s pretty damn fun too.

One of the most impressive things for me about this script is how it works on both levels. It seamlessly ties in lots and lots of greater universe stuff while retaining narrative and character integrity for its own story so people who DON’T have the nerd knowledge can enjoy it as well.

Kevin Smith is totally verklempt.

Captain Marvel takes your point about the Kree Empire and Ronan a bit further, and it’s pretty deft criticism of imperialism in general IMHO. The extremist Ronan isn’t just being ignored ... his actions support the establishment of empire, and the establishment is complicit.

From what I heard, last season’s flu strain was indeed epic misery and if you were only down and out for a few days you definitely got helped out by that vaccine.

Hell yes. 

All the stars for you! ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

What everybody else said about Times Square being nowhere near her constituency, but also, I’m given to understand that people who live in NYC tend to avoid Times Square whenever possible because it’s tourist trap central, lousy with slow walkers, and ugh.

You might find a better place than an article about extreme fad diets of Silicon Valley “eccentrics” to discuss Hesse or Buddhist philosophy.

Nope, you can’t divorce an individual’s actions from his actions.

When his exploration of self-fulfillment comes with promoting a country with ongoing genocide for self-fulfillment tourism, then yes. It’s less deserving of virtue.

. . . like Myanmar?