White fragility is a constant through history. So no, as long as modern American diversity is increasingly reflected in American movies and TV and as long as women take front-and-center roles once occupied by men, a segment of fragile white men will continue to lose their shit.

I have a feeling that the solution for the GotG3 issue will be to have a single movie that will be a sequel to both Guardians and Thor:Ragnarok. We’ve already seen from IW that Thor and the Guardians get along. So I expect they’ll combine the casts of each, and basically create the new team. (Maybe the “Revengers”?)…

Honestly, both. Some of it is absolutely hilarious - like, objectively. Just stuff that no one could find not funny.

“Yo, freeze all motor functions, bitch!”

One of the major building blocks of ‘fan toxicity’ is one of ownership. Because these properties were such a huge part of an fan’s formative tears, fans feel a strange sense of ownership like they have custody of the character motivations and plot directions which they never had to begin with.

It’s a very *very* dark comedy but it has some great gags.

I think Disney/Marvel has a backup director in mind for Guardians 3, Taika Waititi. He showed he has the right sort of vision to follow in Gunn’s footsteps. I think it will be fine.

Try telling Kelly Marie Tran that her being cast as Rose was irrelevant to being cast as Rose. or Ruby Rose that the bigotry she faced had nothing to with her being cast as Batwoman when it totally was.

io9 was never toxic about Batfleck. They were critical.  There’s a big difference.  Not all negativity is toxic. 

1,000% this. Refreshing from a narrative perspective, but it also established what really is the central theme of the film: anyone can be a hero.

Plus, it’s really only we nerds who are invested in Gunn’s involvement. The larger portion of the gigantic audience who watches these movies just wants to see the movie. Most of them probably never notice who directs these things.

It was so smartly handled. So crisp and decisive, it was like a splash of cold water in the face. I’ve written this before, but the whole movie I was dreading the lead-up to the inevitable reveal because any connection they gave Rey to the established dynasties would have felt so anemic. I felt equal parts relief and…

Lol no they won’t. Middle america loves Guardians and they do not know who Gunn is. My conservative dad loves Guardians and doesn’t know what Marvel is. Not having Gunn involved may lead to a less quality movie, and maybe a cute little boycott from the Gunn devotees, but it will unquestionably be a smash, runaway…

Mega-corporations hand the studio exec with the poor decision-making ability a nice party favor bag filled with diamonds, wire the rest to his account, and pleasantly walk him out the door. The new lady reverses whatever the last guy’s crap decisions were. And the tour moves on.

But if that’s what adds some levity and energy to this show, I’m OK with that.

I’ve said this before, but making Rey’s parents nobodies was one of the best things Last Jedi did and I’ll be very disappointed if they go back on that. In today’s climate especially, the idea that you need the right “bloodline” or “heritage” to matter is really fucking problematic, to say the least.

Seriously its shitheads like this why fandom has such a bad rep, an opinion of it I share deeply I’d add. As when people are CLEARLY talking about actually terrible human action they say “but but he was mean to my chosen film franchise”. Seriously have some empathy people. You are of course correct too, he knows what…