Oh yeah, same. You have to spread out the world-threatening stuff, and the MCU model is perfect for that since the solo films can be smaller scale and have your universe at stake in the big centerpieces (and Marvel hasn’t followed that model perfectly either, hello there Thor: the Dark World and Captain Marvel in…

I can think of a few things. I don’t know if Tumlin saw any combat (although I don’t think you go 101st to do clerical work), but frankly I’m more surprised when combat vets don’t come out of the experience overtly fucked up. My brother's been to 2 funerals in the past 10 years for Marine buddies, one a clear suicide…

It’s kind of the point of the super in superhero, but yes it’s possible to also put those characters in stories with a smaller scale. The nature of superheroes basically demands that they at least sometimes save the world, though. Either way, filmmakers have to match the way they’re telling the story to the kind of…

I can’t read the word charlatan without hearing it in Jim the Vampire’s voice.

It’s not just that Shazam is fun, it’s that it’s good at fun. Super serious superhero films can work too (hi Logan!), people just need to stop being bad at making super serious superhero films.

STFU with that. Make a better movie for them to work on.

I’m sure there are QAnon followers who consider themselves atheist, but really they’d be perfect marks for the church anyway.

Cannot decide if you mean that as an insult or compliment.

I am leery of giving in to fandom’s desire to have every I dotted and every T crossed, however.

Neither of those characters was in control of their actions at the time, and that matters. Hell, it matters in court in the real world. Wanda’s involvement with Hydra and Ultron was willful even if misguided.

I thought that worked, actually. How do you even apologize for something like that? Having Wanda basically just avert her eyes and walk away kept her a flawed human being even as she’s becoming this godlike power.

There’s some significant underlying similarities between certain slices of nerd fandom and religious fanatics, and alt-right nuttery appeals to those ingrained sensibilities.

The article makes it sound as if the makeup crew decided themselves to darken her skin.

It can be two things!

And yet in all of history, only one country has fought to abolish slavery, the United States of America

How did you meet Frank Sinatra?

So long as she didn’t do any R & B or hippity-hoppity* bullshit, BEST ANTHEM PERFORMANCE EVER AMIRIGHT(wing)

Jesus pants-shitting Christ that can’t be the actual statue. I mean, a quick Google tells me it is, but that is *SO MANY* levels of bizarrely stupid I can’t want it to be real.

Re: killing Sparky and kidnapping/threatening the twins--maybe Agatha regards them as “not real” in the sense that they manifested solely from Wanda’s psyche, unlike the rest of Westview’s inhabitants who are pre-existing people being puppeted by Wanda. Agatha has so far never shown any inclination toward harming any…