People will like what they like, I suppose, but watching dozens of movies just to see how intricately connected they can be instead of for their merits as films seems like a big investment of time for not much of actual payoff. 

That's fine. It just means that they're not for me. I was hoping that this most recent one might be, but is seems like it isn't, which is a bit of a bummer for me.

Did you think that the only reason to watch before was to keep up with some meta narrative which required watching all of the things?

I get a strong impression that the incursions thing is going to be a significant part of the FF movie, the Kang crossover, or both.

What collex said, but also because if you actually watch the movies and pay attention to the script they’re filled with info dumps about who all of the characters are, what their motivations are, and what role they play in the story. Watching the other shows or movies that the characters appear in might give you some…

The only project that I really think you needed outside information about or you’d be missing something important was Strange 2. All of the other movies and shows bend over backwards to explain everything that an audience needs to know for the purposes of the story being told, sometimes to its detriment.

The only project that I really think you needed outside information about or you’d be missing something important was Strange 2. All of the other movies and shows bend over backwards to explain everything that an audience needs to know for the purposes of the story being told, sometimes to its detriment.

I’m glad that somebody is excited for Kraven. It’s just too bad that the only people who are excited are Sony executives desperate for any of their live action super hero movies to be well-liked.

A perfect example of how the show fumbles this kind of thing from this season: We spend back to back episodes about how Raynar needs to connect more with the crew, and in both episodes the fact that Lt. Cmdr. Reece loves starships and specifically the Constitution class is a significant plot point. And IN THE VERY…

I think that it’s probably possible to do a Trek show that focuses on one main character, but it really fights the format. Whether the show is on a ship or a space station, a crew is an ensemble. Sure, the captain is probably the most important member of the crew, but everyone is essential and everyone contributes so…

There are many, many problems with this show, but it's original sin is making the show so laser focused on Burnham. 

Man, I went into X-Men ‘97 with really low expectations. Not because I wasn’t a fan of the show, but actually probably because I was. I was on the older end of the target demographic when the show aired, but I was a huge nerd so I watched it anyway and loved it. The theme is burned into my brain. But in anticipation…

Sony distributed the movies, but Marvel more or less made them.

Yeah, I could get behind that concept. And you’re right, I don’t think looking for something completely original is necessary as long as you have a well-told version of a story with at least some fresh ideas to keep it interesting. I’m just tired of the cynical approach that so much of the Star Wars and Star Trek…

I did say live action, which takes the Spiderverse movies out. Also, Sony didn’t make the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, so they’re out as well. So that leaves Spider-Man 3, which I think is a bit underrated by most folks but which I don’t think is genuinely good,. And then there’s the various Spider-Man adjacent…

Sony hasn’t shown any evidence that they can competently do any kind of live action Spider-Man in the last 20 years, so I don’t really think that there’s reason for us to be hoping that this is the project that turns it all around.

I mean, he's not super specific about what he means, but he does say that his character doesn't need to speak, just two hours of lightsaber action. And maybe I'm taking that too literally, but that sounds like all of the worst impulses of the Wick movies but in Star Wars.

Even if we limited ourselves to lower tier characters, there are a slew of options more compelling for a limited series than Agatha Harkness.

I don’t think that what you’ve laid out is bad, necessarily. I’m just not interested in that. It just the Joker’s “the only difference between you and me is one bad day” schtick from The Killing Joke, which itself has been iterated on a million times since then. Hell, most of the prominent Sith stories are about good…

My initial reaction was that Jedi John Wick is something that I don’t really want for a number of reasons. First, and most obviously, Wick is a tale of bloody revenge. It doesn’t get more Dark Side than that and I don’t need a “I guess the Dark Side can be cool too, actually.” takes. But also, the first John Wick may…