I think the mentor thing is that they really want to tether these Sony movies to the MCU proper, but every other hero is an actual adult. Maybe once we have some Junior Avengers, we'll get more peer-type team-ups.  Or if Disney could convince Sony to sell, a fully adventure.

Since the show focuses mainly on Teela, that’s upset a lot of people. The sexist ones are just stupid. I can kinda see the point on the ones that feel that all of the marketing focuses on He-Man, and that’s misleading since he’s pretty much only in the first and last episodes of the first half-season. I tend to shrug…

The characters that are new/unrecognizable are the only ones that don’t look absolutely TERRIBLE. 🤣 (Well, I guess Trap Jaw looked okay in the 1.5 seconds I could identify him...)
If the show was just the three other kids and not Adam (presumably)/He-Man, I might’ve considered it. (I have a hard time getting around to…

I thought the voice acting this week was better than last weeks, although I’m still not crazy about the voice direction in general. (Everyone sounds way too smooth.  I hear more nuance from the characters watching the new version of Ducktales...)

I liked the story, but absolutely hated the voice direction. It sounded like everyone was told, "okay, this is a cartoon, so make it as bombastic as possible!" Everyone sounded overacted.  Terrible.

Maybe it’s just because I grew up with The Real Ghostbusters being an adventure show with some comedic bits, but wow are some people really invested in the Ghostbusters films being comedies.

Afterlife is clearly Jason Reitman having been a kid growing up with Ghostbusters and associating it with family, so he’s made a…

Most 80's cartoons were all standalone episodes, but the episodes that were memorable tended to be the occasional two-parter or episode that established lore. (With some shows, were were lucky enough to get 5-episode miniseries at the start of a season that introduced the new toys, er, characters, but also as a…

Some of the best episodes of the original were the ones that provided lore about Teela, and this show kept teasing that. If the whole show is a miniseries about Teela assuming the Goddess mantle with the snake armor, I’m all for it.
Honestly, the toughest thing for me about watching the new series was the fact that…

My guess is that this filler will turn out to be setup for something later. Roland and his mother will probably turn out to be important for something, and this episode was to have them on good terms with, or at least beholden to, the Batch in general and Omega in particular.

Well, I liked 2/3 of the show? Episode 4 was surprisingly boring, and the end of the last episode was a letdown. Part of the fun of the MCU is the ending wink and nod to what’s coming next. I mean, I’m familiar enough with the different versions of Kang/Immortus that I was able to figure out who he was (even if I…

Clearly, Abed has finally figured out which tropical island Troy was shipwrecked on, gets whoever he can of the group to go get him, they end up shipwrecked themselves, do a Gilligan’s Island/sitcom in Hawaii episode pastiche, and then at the end find Troy, who has a one minute cameo where he reveals that he wasn’t…

I pretty much enjoyed all of the series except for Episode 4, which was kind of a drag, and now this episode was terribly unsatisfying. A cliffhanger ending should get you excited for what’s coming next. This felt more like buildup for a next-episode season finale than an actual season finale.
I mean, I read through a…

They definitely seem to be going for the films’ humor...
Who’s the blue llama?  I’m not that up on more recent comics lore... 😅

This article reminded me of all those clickbait slideshow articles on aggregate sites. It’s the weird, dismissive “what were they thinking?” moralizing that seems somehow confused that values and expectations were different in the past.

I figured being a Stripe just meant being a career soldier. See for example... umm, the film Stripes.

Yeah, they even telegraphed the transition with a literal title change.

My guess on Omega is that she’s a Palpatine clone. I’m pretty sure her hair is the same way they do his in the back (although I’m not having any luck Googling a picture of him from that angle to double check).
I doubt she’s supposed to be Rey’s mother, unless they’re planning on retconning what little info they’ve gone…

Ah, I couldn’t catch the dates fast enough, and didn’t want to pause or rewind.  Thanks!

First thing that sprang to my mind regarding the “dogs” in the basement is that it’s Massen’s “dead” wife and daughter behind the door. To me, the lingering look at the gravestones felt more like foreshadowing than just explaining his disinterest in remarriage.

Good luck finding any “new” powers that haven’t been influenced by new technology.
Heck, by the ‘70s (if not sooner), a third of Marvel and DC’s characters were rip-offs of each other.