Ross Marquand as Hugo Weaving as Red Skull.

“Bradley Whitford as the military jerk who is not Tommy Lee Jones’ military jerk”

That is a great one. I love how Ben & Johnny are both, “Yeah, Reed’s in a bad place, but that’s expected,” and Namor is the one who’s all, “No, I know that look, that man is going to fuck all the shit up.”  And, yeah, the nothing-to-live-for Reed Richards coming after Annihlus is TERRIFYING.

Strictly speaking, no. He’s destined to write a book that is largely obscure, but is a key piece of inspiration for someone who does save the world.  It’s still grandiose, but it’s not that.

• Why were the guards fighting them in the building on Lamentis? The world was ending. Who cares?

I think the writing team really struggled with writing the show in a way that was Covid-protocol friendly, and are only now getting the hang of it.

Part of the challenge in the adaptation is that Order of the Phoenix introduces a lot, including a bunch of new characters, but they don’t really DO much in that book other than exist as the Order, and it’s unclear how critical a role they are going to play in the next books without having a finished Deathly Hollows…

I wonder how much of that ties to the difference in how the British and Americans treat acting as a job.  Like, it was easier for them to be relatively well-adjusted humans because the British film industry doesn’t have the same factors that steer child actors into oncoming trains.

The biggest problem with the Fantastic Beasts movies is it doesn’t know who the protagonist is. The movie believes Newt’s the protagonist, and all the filmic language throughout signals him as the protagonist. Problem is, he’s not. He’s the Mysterious Stranger.

Silver Chair is probably the strongest in terms of Having An Actual Plot.  Eustace and Jill arrive in Narnia and are told, “Hey, the Caspian’s son has been kidnapped, go rescue him” and that’s what they do.  The rest of the books are more “children arrive in Narnia and some fantastic stuff happens” but it more just…

The third movie is, at best, *ok*. Part of the challenge is the book is largely a bunch of threaded vignettes, where they go from island to island and have mini-adventures, but there isn’t a real PLOT. So the movie tries to craft a Save Narnia plot out of nothing and it isn’t really much to it besides that.

I did read them all, but I remember as a kid I found Prince Caspian and Horse & His Boy a real chore to get through. Later, re-reading as an adult, I realized that at least part of the “problem” with Caspian is a good half of the book is backstory. Like, the Pevensies get to Narnia, and they meet Caspian and his…

So the whole time I never quite got what the argument against stopping the other forces from coming to existence actually was? Like, Iris & Cisco were both, “Well, this is the wrong choice” without any articulation of why it was a wrong choice?

I think the other thing was seasons 1-4 all had young people who fundamentally had reasons to live in/move to the city they were going to, and thus were following those ambitions.  After that they kind of steered toward people with... less ambitions?  And then gave them a collective job or task to force more…

Here’s my main thought about Avatar and its lack of cultural impact. Fundamentally, it’s a movie that is the inverse of a cult classic. Most of those “cult classics” are movies that bombed/underperformed in the theatres, but then had a robust life in the home market. But Avatar is a movie that its biggest strength is…

Someone on the show seems to REALLY like changing cards last minute as a bit, because there’s often moments (Kate & Aidy doing the meat on this one, for example) where it looks like the performer is seeing the line for the first time and trying not to lose it.

Bruce keeps coming back to dressing up as a bat and driving a cool car

It’s not a good film, and yet the director LITERALLY made the movie again with “100 Women” in an apartment building instead of a dorm. I honestly think he had a mystery woman tryst that he never resolved, so he kept making the movie about it.

All these people out in Star City figured out their loved ones weren’t really themselves in a matter of hours, yet it took Team Flash WEEKS to realize the same had been done to Iris. How embarrassing...

Yeah, I think this Vision has the full memories, but not the emotional context of FEELING them.