I think this is all because Voltron: Legendary Defender. If you haven’t seen that, it couldn’t maintain its plot, characters or pacing when it was divided up into bursts of episodes that were, quite frankly, cut out of the story at very weird times. By the end it had a very “making it up on the fly” feel as they cobble…

And if this 10th effort succeeds, perhaps the new X-Men stories in the fall will take place in the 11th. And who knows what type of world that will be.

Actually the score might be better in KotM. It did use Ifukube themes and that goes a long way

2014 > King of the Monsters by every single metric. KotM hovers around Godzilla vs Gigan on the “who wrote this drivel?” list. They tried to find a mix between Showa and Heisei, but stripped all the joy of the former and all the thought of the latter and totally forgot how Gareth Edwards had the monsters move and what…

Just here to make sure a comment like this is at the top of the responses because without a doubt this is the show’s biggest misstep every season. 

Except it was a depressed bi kid who completed a suicide fantasy and then the writers called themselves brave for killing the white lead and casually ignoring any other criticism... it was pretty much a train wreck in all regards except it had well-done music cues.

I’d otherwise be excited if the show’s prior season hadn’t just ended on shitting the bed so hard with Quentin’s exit and the very poor way the writing team defended it’s decisions after. Not sure I can really reconcile that. Still love the rest of the cast though and the show otherwise functions great in a lot of…

100% this his comedic timing on that show is impeccable 

Ah, sorry to hear that, but I totally get it. 

Legit made me LOL. The flumphs were behind it all. Trying to create strong psychics beings to hang out around. 

I loved John Wick 3, but ho boy does it ground the actual storytelling to a halt in a way that even my bias for well executed action cinematography can’t excuse.

User name checks out. I actually like that episode. Sure it plays of X-Men (practically doing a shot-for-shot of a scene from X-Men: First Class) but I think it could have stood on its own had it not landed smack dab in the middle of a huge twist in the season.

I’m 50/50 on the Hopper or Brenner thing. Here’s why I lean towards Hopper and not Brenner. The appearance of the Demogorgon implies there’s a gate now open on the Russian end and that’s a little too telling that Hopper’s body wasn’t shown, had an open gate on one end and now the Russian apparently have an open gate.…

Don’t forget the Jaws inspiration! Larry the corrupt/inept mayor! Hopper’s “I can do anything I’m the chief of police” line.

In most of the press tour a lot of the actors seem to think their involvement in the series is only 1 or 2 more seasons. Now maybe this is a talking point they were all told to stick to, but it sounds like the story will follow them for a season or two more. David Harbour (Chief Hopper) said he was shown a draft for…

You’re not wrong with most season of these shows being a filler sandwich, but I feel like Thawne’s escape is just for next year’s Crisis. Then again maybe the showrunners are forever stuck under the shadow of the first season and Thawne will show up right til the last episode. 

I’m going to unironically say Final Fantasy VIII Remastered and leave it at that. Still looking forward to Borderlands 3 most this year.

Counterpoint - He’s the best... eventually. He’s the most realistic character in the Final Fantasy series. Which is to say he’s a shitty 18 year old kid who actually grows up over the course of the story into a competent, emotional human being.

It gets increasingly worse with each subsequent viewing by the way. The monster fights are barely worth the excruciating attempt at writing in that movie.

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not and that worries me...