Actually I think that's an accurate description of all the other stabs at "extended universes" that are attempting to copy the Marvel formula. The relative lack of being an advertisement for another movie is what makes me like Marvel best of the current crop.

Of course it's the last one! Studios are known for abandoning multibillion-dollar franchises while they are still profitable! Always leave them wanting more!

I mean I think I'd leave my spouse if I married the wrong person regardless of whether the perfect new partner was waiting in the wings. Being married to the wrong person sounds tortuous. But I realize there might be circumstances that get in the way (e.g. Kids, finances, ill spouse).

I don't think you can generalize about all women understanding equipment failure. And, even if this woman did understand, her response was still mean. I was glad the LW told her to leave.

What is "this"? I mean, in general, surely various superpowers racing to gobble up countries or convert them into vassel-states in service of extending the superpower's influence isn't new to you?

So the new Cold War is going to lead to nuclear war with Russia even though the last one didn't? Because reasons. Also, we magically transformed Putin into a dictator.

"Proxy wars" in the sense that superpowers are squabbling over control of little bits of the world and their resources instead of fighting each other directly. Superpowers grab at one to counterbalance what's happening somewhere else.

Again, a silly argument. Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria are all proxy wars for the conflicts between superpowers (often coupled with money/resource grabs against countries too weak to resist). We fight those because no one with two brain-cells to rub together (on either side) wants to risk nuclear war.

This seems comically silly to me. Because: (a) basically no one wants to "nuke" Russia and (b) it would take more than thinking "Russia is evil" to get us to nuke them - we had decades upon decades of that and no one got nuked.

So, if I'm following this accurately, interviewing Putin is fine, but asking him about the persecution of people within his territory is not okay? Because people in the US are totally going to war with Russia to protect LGBQT people in Chechnya? You have a touching faith in the selflessness of the American people.

I'd hazard that very few of the people saying that we are "at war" with Russia think we're actually at war or want to go to war with Russia. What they want is to take Russian interference seriously without hand-waving it away. Airily saying, "Sure Russia is interfering and may have assets in the highest offices of…

Maybe because the title translates as "Hands: the Hands of Fate"? It is weird to include "sic" when not using the actual title.

There is no good cause to start WWIII. But you're comment appears to boil down to "Russia is dangerous! Do nothing!" Which is, of course, a decent way to start WWIII but not effective for much else.

So you're not condoning or condemning it. What are you doing exactly? Ignoring it? Because humans all have unclean hands, moral positions are impossible?

I wasn't aware that the only problems worth worrying about were ones that were easily solved.

Kulaks unwilling to hand over seed-grain (to idiots who apparently didn't understand where food comes from…).

Then I'm not clear in what your point is. The notion of objectivity in art-criticism seems difficult to pin down when art is filtered through our cultural and personal experiences.

Most of it is in the first few pages. I do think the book forgoes racists accents though.

The original story was pretty racist, IIRC.

You're under the impression that your life experiences and culture doesn't affect your taste?