Agreed. It’s been done, we’ve seen it, we should be past it. The most interesting companions have been the ones that spend time on character development rather than making googly eyes at the back of the Doctor’s head.

My response wasn’t directed at the notability, my response was directed at the sheer amount of faux-confusion Barsanti’s written into the article, as if this is some bizarre new concept being presented.

I still haven’t seen season 5.

This article feels like a lot of words to say “This is gonna be kinda like Moon Knight, where it was clearly in the setting but still kinda standalone” without actually acknowledging the Moon Knight series.

I don’t think you can really sell a horror ‘cinematic universe,’ for the reasons mentioned here. The ‘cinematic universe’ branding has very specific baggage at this point. But a bunch of mostly-unconnected movies that take place in the same setting, and as time goes on certain characters start recurring? I think you…

It’s a paradox that the MBA types don’t get: limitations breed creativity, and more resources stifle creativity.

“I have to tell them, ‘There’s no more in the back, I’m not hiding it from you,’” one employee told me. “I’ve been doing this for twenty years. And that’s all I can say.”

You’re probably right. I think I’ve just still got strike talking points in my head. It just feels like something about the tone of it’s shifted, but it probably is just me.

Like every other studio that foolishly stumbled into the streaming business 10 years late, only to find, yup, no money there,

Not that I’m in a position to see it often, but a few times over the years I’ve seen or heard of fast food restaurants letting truckers walk up to the window after dining room hours since they can’t take their trucks through the drive thru.

Pro tip from someone actually from Fairmont, where pepperoni rolls anecdotally originate: Sometimes, before we warm them up, we slice them open a bit along the side and scoop in some Oliverio’s peppers in sauce. (https://www.oliveriopeppers.us/all-products?Category=Peppers+in+Sauce). Some local grocery stores even…

Giuseppe Argiro, a Sicilian immigrant who worked in West Virginia coal mines. Stories say that when he opened a bakery in Fairmont, he remembered his coal miner friends eating a stick of salami in one hand and a hunk of bread in the other.

In the paper they do acknowledge the limitation of the lack of a control group drinking decaf and/or a control group who aren’t habitual coffee drinkers, and suggest including those in future studies.

Is anyone actually surprised/concerened about any of this?

Frig, now I’m craving tteokbokki. My roommate doesn’t like the texture of the rice cakes so I don’t make it regularly (and I don’t want to go to the trouble just for me), but I sometimes get the instant stuff for myself and I just ran out a day or two ago.

For what it’s worth, while HK-47 hasn’t appeared ‘on-screen’ as such, there’s a scene in Aftermath: Empire’s End that makes it clear that HK-47 still exists/existed somewhere in the current canon.

“Had a pleasant experience working with Disney making the film” and “the movie got heavily reworked in editing without him” aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.

I figure part of the hesitation is that once mutants and the X-Men are part of the MCU, then everything will have to be at least partially about them. The X-Men aren’t like the Avengers, where they can be easily distributed among a half-dozen other movies and come together for big events. Unless the MCU introduces a…

He’s probably talking about the actors’ contracts, not his. Ostensibly, Cox should be getting paid as if it’s season 4, not season 1.

In my experience, it’s not even a matter of tying up the drive-thru as it is not having to repeat the order three times to make sure they get it right. Also, I usually pick up food for my roommate as well as myself, and he customizes a good bit, so it’s a lot more convenient to order on the app where I can punch in…