You’d think by now Black Widow would be used to a steep drop-off.

Comparing Week 1 numbers for Space Jam to Week 2 numbers of Black Widow is a bit ridiculous. Of course streaming numbers would drop. The people most likely to pay to stream would do so the first weekend, and they don’t have to pay again to watch it again. The week-to-week drop in the theater isn’t surprising, either.…

I thought Loki was competently directed, but it didn’t strike me as particularly visionary. The suits at Disney have such a big hand in everything it’s not always easy for the creativity of the director to break through, for better or for worse. Even in non-MCU TV shows, episode directors tend to show up to something…

The visualization in this episode of all of the different branches coming from the one timeline is a decent representation of the Marvel Multiverse. Every little decision - each time someone goes right instead of left - there is another universe where the other choice was made. In any given second, there are infinite…

it was literally whatever the scene required this season. on Lamentis he full-on stopped a building falling on them, which is a Scarlet Witch-level power he has never demonstrated before now. but in the very same episode, he was overpowered by 2-3 seemingly normal (human?) guards pretty easily in hand-to-hand combat,…

I guess this was a good acting episode, but I was too confused by all the timeline/multiverse stuff to enjoy any of it. I wish they had drawn a diagram or something. Can someone explain to me: does Sylvie (and for that matter, alligator Loki and friends) come from one of those universes stacked on top of each other…

This probably isn’t the right thread, but—what are Loki’s powers again? They just sort of seemed to be whatever the scene required, including in the final fight with Sylvie where he’s full on telekinetic? I’m lost.  

This Kang already won. And he enjoyed millions of years of absolute power, at least. And then he got bored.

I get your point, but the thing is that Luke’s parentage wasn’t a JJ Abrams-style tease. Luke asked Obi-Wan how his dad died and Obi-Wan told him. He didn’t hint around, he didn’t leave it ambiguous, he just told a story that set up Darth Vader as the big-bad. Not only is he the scary dude we’ve seen so far, but he…

Oh God, you’re so right. Here’s a thought experiment, so long as we’re playing in original Star Wars trilogy land.

Put 2021 attitudes and ability to communicate in 1981 and let Empire Strikes Back come out.

He wins either way since if the multiverse comes back it will, according to him, inevitably lead right back to where they were. He figured he’s the version that will always win the multiversal war and so it will also loop back.

either Loki and Sylvie take over for him and run the TVA and keep the sacred timeline in place or they kill him and let the multiverse grow unfettered

I found unbelievable was the all-knowing Kang variant thinking his plot would ever work

A lot of people, including writers/directors/showrunners, forget that a good twist is still good if you’ve already seen it. And a shitty twist is still shitty if it takes you completely by surprise. If your thing lives and dies by the BIG TWIST then it’s a shitty thing.
It’s weird how, as a society, we’ve gone from…

First, they didn’t change the ending. They just had Arya kill the NK so Maisie had a big moment.

A major takeaway from Season 1 is that Natalie Holt is a phenomenal composer. I just loved the music and how it kept building and reinventing through the final episode.

Agreed. Loki reminds me of the dog chasing the car that Joker talked about in “The Dark Knight,” or that one line of Jeff Goldblum’s from “Jurassic Park.” He’s so caught up in his mission and what he feels he deserves, he never thinks beyond what will happen afterwards if and when he wins. We saw it in the first and…

Why was Sylvie introduced as a patient, ruthless master planner only to be depicted as a petulant, impatient hothead ever since?

That was kind of amazing, actually. He just walked into the finale and took it over with a nearly episode length monologue. And it was captivating. That was just a really natural and charismatic piece of extended genre acting. The show still feels hung together with duct tape and fond wishes, it’s been a bit too…

Crazy that there’s no comment on the climate change stuff. Almost every main character is a scientist. The plot involves an existential threat 30 years from now that will kill everyone, and we can only prevent it if we do something about it today. In the classroom scene, there’s literally a tv off to the side that has…