In an interview a couple of years ago, Mel talked about how the only fight he and Gene ever had was over that bit when they were writing the script. In so many words, he said that the scene was so ridiculous on paper he just needed to hear Gene defend it before he would accept it, so he challenged him on it.

I really appreciate that the trailer just goes ahead and gives us an idea of just how crazypants we’re getting with this one. I like the ‘strapping himself down to the bed’ bit, like he’s worried he transforms into some kind of werewolf by night.

People laugh about that, but there was the time he covered himself with bones strapped to his costume with mummy wrappings to fight ghosts. And it worked.

As much as I love Warren’s run, my concern would be that an accurate translation to live-action would come out a lot like Netflix Daredevil with a different color palette.

It’s not just a movie thing. Some years back they pivoted to Spider-Man doing a lot of multiverse stuff, after dipping a toe in with the Shattered Dimensions video game and a 616-Ultimate crossover where Peter meets Miles.

I imagine the donut/bagel shape probably also makes it look bigger.

It’s come up in passing in the comics that the survivors of that attack have actually conflated Anakin with a figure from their myths (a warrior who came down from the sky wielding a sword of flame) and now there’s a cult to him.

I literally came down to the comments after watching the trailer to see if someone else had commented on that (and if they hadn’t, to ask about it myself).

Might owe Harry an apology, though.

I know, right? Last time I shit-talked Whedon on a post, I got one of those people who, judging from their comment history, spends all their time writing essays (sometimes incorrectly-researched ones at hat) in response to people shit-talking Whedon. (Not complaining, mind you.)

Somewhat surprisingly—given the many rumors that have cropped up about that particular set—Affleck doesn’t then go on to namecheck Joss Whedon as a source of that misery.

It blows my mind how many people on Twitter are shrieking to anyone who’ll listen that this is somehow karma for Supernatural, as if Supernatural was the only thing keeping afloat a network that, reportedly, has never actually been profitable.

People are aware of the scene, but I think you overestimate how many people. Heck, I’m aware of the scene, and I completely blanked on the reference in the show.

If it helps you feel any better, having read the comics and being familiar with the character, that’s a pretty dead-on description. He and Boba used to both work for Jabba in the comics, so they’ve got a history and I’d expect him to pop up again.

I start with ALIEN, myself.

I’m not saying it’s the same as with Rowling, for the record. But that was just an example of how that can creep in. Though even if it wasn’t the obvious primary inspiration, Tolkien himself openly and specifically talked about it in at least one interview.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of that stuff mixed into traditional fantasy tropes, — for example, Tolkien based his dwarves on the Jews, but he unironically meant it as a compliment — and there are a lot of works that drink from that tainted well.

Back when I delivered beer I learned that Jägermeister is intended as a digestif as well, and that it was the Americans who turned it into something to be pounded or mixed into cocktails.

Kingpin’s definitely not dead. Depending on how the production timelines are coming together, my assumption is that at the time they filmed the episode, Maya’s spinoff was too early for them to commit to a specific ‘end state’ regarding Fisk as to whether they wanted him active and visible at the start, believed dead…

That seems like a pretty reasonable guess. IMHO, even if they didn’t have it connected to a specific agent, a functional SHIELD gadget that could maybe be analyzed or traced to find hiding SHIELD agents, hidden shield tech, or both would still be damn valuable.