I’m honestly not sure what saying that it’s like a 90s action movie actually means. You could make a rough description of 80s action movies as often featuring muscly dudes, and you could roughly describe 00s action movies as increasingly relying on CGI as the industry went digital and a focus on franchises and sequels.…

Yes, that would have been controversial, and rightly so.

It’s certainly an aesthetic that was more or less the standard way to depict female heroes for several decades. Part of it is related to the general idea of super heroes as modern interpretations of ancient godly pantheons, but a lot of it was just sexism from an industry that was dominated by men. Things like that…

He’s a man that always shows up in whatever he’s in, and everything he’s in is better for having him in it. He’s also one of those actors that has always been ubiquitous throughout my life, so it’s hard to pick any single piece of work. Gargoyles is probably the work that cemented his voice into my head forever, but…

The issue isn’t whether pre-existing knowledge is required in order to enjoy the show, but how the show places itself inside continuity to intentionally become part of the events of the world of the previous shows. Like I said, the Kelvinverse intentionally separated itself from continuity to give itself more freedom…

It’s possible, though I think that you may be reading your own reaction into the scene. I’ve only seen the episode once, but I don’t think that we see Spock or Chapel react sympathetically to the Gorn’s death, nor do they talk to the crew about how they might have misjudged the Gorn after all when they get back to the…

I’m glad that you guys enjoy it, and largely I am too, but that really wasn’t my point. The argument to which I was responding was that deviations to continuity don’t matter because a significant portion of the audience is new and doesn’t know the continuity. My point is that the show mostly isn’t ignoring continuity.…

I mean, at least on desktop if I want to get to the comments or look at my notifications I can more or less do it. On mobile it’s just about impossible to actually comment and respond because the comments take forever to load and there’s a billion ads to scroll around.

Boy, I don’t understand what this means. Does that mean that this movie is in his DCU, but his Superman movie will take place before it in the chronology of the universe? Or does he mean that Blue Beetle, perhaps even this version played by this actor, will be in the DCU but that the events of this movie won’t be…

Is this movie going to be part of Gunn’s DCU? I hadn’t heard that.

I mean, The Flash wasn't really good, so that couldn't have helped.

Ok. Like I said, I liked what they put out of Widening Gyre, and I thought that most of the most vocal complaints (especially including the “bladder spasm”) were pretty much just stupid. Now, the erratic publication history and the fact that it never got finished is fairly annoying, especially since from my…

I think that the idea that there’s an audience for these shows that isn’t versed in Trek history is well-taken, but I also think that the shows can’t have it both ways. The Abrams/Kelvinverse movies made the specific decision to set their stories in a separate timeline, which gave them the freedom to tell stories…

I think that James’ reading of the fight with the adult Gorn is a bit generous. I don’t really think that the show was trying to engender sympathy for the Gorn so much as cheering for Spock and Chapel killing it. And while there was stuff to like in the episode, this gets to my problem with it. The issues with Disco…

I saw a post someone made talking about their job reading scripts, and how they regularly come across phenomenal original scripts, or stories about people they’ve never heard of, etc. But the studios don’t want that stuff because there’s too big of a risk that it won’t become a hit. They want the same thing that was a…

Yeah, you could make the argument that Spider-Man’s radioactivity is so low that it would only have negative effects on the person who spent the most time in close contact with him. It doesn’t have to be gross to get the basic idea across that he inadvertently killed the love of his life just by being with her.

I mean, it’s fridging. And that’s not to say that no female character should ever die as part of a story which then motivates the male main character. But given what a cliché it has been, even before Reign came out, this is a particularly gross way to do it.

Is the joke because of the content of the book or because it wasn’t finished? I liked what they put out, but it would be pretty funny to do a sequel to an unfinished story.

It was the same story with the X-Men and Fantastic Four. Everyone loves a conspiracy, even when the ready answer that “sometimes comics go through a period where they aren’t what you like” is right there. As if there’s some smoke-filled room where Marvel executives arm-wrestle their editorial staff and/or contract…

This is just such a perfect approach. Shut down if it appears that your product is not permitted during the strike, work with the relevant union and union-involved people to clarify, restart production when your work is cleared as not being struck, and top it off with reaffirming support for the strike and unions.