Yes, to your second point. Have the mission take place in Gotham, and only reveal that Joker is the target after they arrive, to really amp up the unpredictability. And since it's in Gotham you can even have Batman working to solve the same problem, and potentially warring against/teaming up with the Squad as needed.

I'm not interested in any statements made while Perlmutter was Feige's boss. Everything we've heard suggests he was a major roadblock to any film not starring a white man. Feige may be saying the same thing he was 7 years ago, but this time I believe he actually means it.

In a post-Ike Perlmutter world, his stance is that they'd very much like to do one, so if Johansson sticks around, I'd say it's fairly likely.

Hmm. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, but I feel like in order to enjoy this one it either had to be a lot funnier or a lot weirder. As it was it only seemed marginally weirder than a regular episode, but with little to no plot, and far fewer jokes. Ah well.

Only a brief appearance, yeah. They could probably cut it. And yeah, I guess they'll have to compromise on Trolloc height. Loial will definitely be the trickiest. He's supposed to be quite expressive, and I'm not sure you could get away with just a tall dude in a suit. But I agree that practical effects would be…

Yeah, that sounds about right. I also seem to remember certain weaves, like fireballs, were accompanied by a throwing action. I'm sure they could tweak the source material a bit for the sake of clarity, anyway.

Loial, Trollocs, the Green Man, Draghkar? Seems like you'd only be able to get away with Myrddraal being played by humans, unless you plan to do *very* extensive prosthetic work.

I'm psyched for this. As long as they streamline the middle books (a lot), it could be pretty great. But it'll be interesting to see how they manage the special effects. There's a whole lot more magic and monsters in the first book alone than pretty much the entire run of GoT up to this point.

Yeah, that was always one of the trickiest things for me to imagine in any potential adaptation. They're going to have to come up with a lot of visual shorthand just to tell the difference between someone sensing the Source, embracing the Source, channeling the Source, being cut off by a shield, etc. And I'm pretty…

Yeah, I'd rather pay to watch Wonder Woman watch trailers for upcoming DC films.

Kylo Ren's one of the biggest offenders for me, unfortunately. People seem to think that he's complex because he's conflicted, but without knowing the crux of that inner conflict he just rings hollow to me. I mean, he's supposed to be caught between the light and the dark. The light I understand; he has pretty…

As likeable as most of TFA's characters were, they were also mostly pretty shallow (and in ways that demonstrates the film's hollow construction and general misunderstanding of the Star Wars mythos). Not to mention the film's whole 'mystery box' approach (gee thanks, Abrams) kind of fucked up the wider Star Wars…

I think you mean that the Republic home worlds and fleet were destroyed and no one, audience included, cared. And 'Luke still exists' is hardly a major plot point.

I'm still too angry at TFA to get excited for this film (which is saying a lot, given my great love of Star Wars). It doesn't help that once this comes out, my (far superior, of course) alternate version of TFA will be well and truly dead. Ah, well.

As someone who is literally finishing up Initiative right now, can confirm.

I mean, wasn't the reason Davy Jones had time to mess around with folks because he was ignoring his duties? Will could come ashore for some bucket lovin', but he won't, because he has a job to do.

As someone who only got into comics a few years ago and went fully digital from the start (I have a MU subscription, and buy trades from other publishers when they go on sale at Comixology), I really can't fathom how people can stand to buy and read issues as they come out. Waiting a month for another 10-15 minutes of…

Hopeless actually went to the bigwigs with a whole story about a big superhero school, where the arena stuff was only a single arc, but because the Hunger Games were huge at the time, the bigwigs told him to make that the entire story, very much against his initial wishes (there's a big afterword or whatever at the…

Because WB cast Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam ages ago, and have shit themselves multiple times in the interim. Dwayne Johnson is one of the most bankable stars in the world, so in their minds it makes sense to give him a film despite him playing the arch nemesis of an already obscure (for the mainstream) character.

Adult Davos should have shown up around episode 6, and child Davos should have shown up in flashbacks around episode 2-3.