I treat this the way I treat the whole “Vulcans don’t lie” belief. Of course Vulcans lie. Nick Fury lies as well. That’s the whole thing about liars (and lying is part of spying). Liars (good ones, at least) use their perceived honesty to their advantage.

I guess “fridging” is whatever you want it to mean that will cause the most controversy. Here’s my take:

Just a flood and firestorm of dad jokes.

The theme of writing your own story is so beautifully done that it moves me each time I think about it. As shown in that early scene with the guidance counselor, it is too often emphasized that more trauma and more struggle is tantamount to a more interesting story. But Miles is an anomaly, and not just in the sense…

So the show “neatly [solves issues] within an episode’s time,” yet it’s also a problem that the runtime has “ballooned.”

I know a little what you mean. It’s easy to not see him as a villain but more of an antagonist, but then you have to remind yourself that his motivation was to kill Riri. Points for Huerta for being as charismatic as he was to have his murderous motivation slip my mind, even for an instant.

The ironic thing is that one repeated (and tired IMO) criticism tossed around is that Marvel just HAS to put in jokes, thereby lessening its validity. Jokes make superheroes more relatable, and therefore more fun and interesting to watch.

I wonder if any shape-shifting parallels can be drawn about Jen’s date freaking out seeing her in a different form and Denis getting upset at discovering that the woman he was dating was not, in fact, Megan Thee Stallion. Sure, if Jen’s date had simply googled her, he might have been more prepared, but part of the…

...Guillermo’s deep discomfort at the thin distinction between murdering the rejected wives and just “making them dead again.”

(An aside: if Kamala has to find romance, I’d love to see her do so with a Pakistani boy, instead of, as is so often the case in western narratives, with a white boy. Sorry Bruno.)

The movie can be seen as a deconstruction of misandry. Here, a woman who experienced toxicity and trauma from her husband is incapable of seeing any man other than a pathetic yet dangerous existential threat with the same punchable face. The only time she feels at peace is inside a literal echo chamber.

He has amassed quite a bit of gold...

This was a terrific deconstruction of what would happen if one were to “seize the day” and “follow their bliss” without regard to those innocents that depend on them.

Came here for this!

That was a moment of pure joy.

Thank you for this. I feel seen.

A preemptive “thank you for coming to my TED Talk...”

Don’t know if it’s been said already, but Captain Carter told Natasha that “Ivan was her father and Alexei was her ‘Da’” which to me was similar to Yondu’s “He may have been your father, but he wasn’t your daddy.”

I’d like to know who made the rule of not interfering. Does the Watcher answer to a higher authority, or is it self-imposed because he’s some sort of masochist?

I’ll chalk it up to Supergirl as a fictional character in a fictional universe, but the totem being David’s slingshot made me cringe. In our world, David used a sling to defeat Goliath, not a slingshot.