I actually loved the show for how it reminds me of The Simpsons by making all the one-off residents of West Covina feel lived in (gossiping window-washers, camp director, fondue guy, etc) but I’ve never really cared for the supporting workstaff as much, maybe since nearly all of them were introduced as foils.

I thought that final line was interesting since it sets up that Paula noticed the severe communications issues between Tim and his wife, but sort of overlooks how bad communication is between basically every other pair of characters on the show aside from, to some extent, WhiJo and Darryl. Or it just works in terms of…

With the first episode of season 2 did they not introduce the theme song then either?

I scoured the internet and maybe it’s just since Tumblr’s tag function is deeply broken and awful, but I could only find some misogynist’s pretty poor quality one.

It seems like there’s a distinction between lying and mis-directing? Like I assume there weren’t any ESB trailers that showed Han with a lightsaber but that did definitely still actually happen in the film, like Finn.

It had any at all so i’m kind of pleases they’re leaving the nose ring. I was also a little surprised Karolina remains so disco so I’m still looking forward to this even if some of the casting isn’t quite as close to the comics as I would have expected.

Huh after the cast scattered to the winds I lost track of where they showed up and I kind of wondered where he and Klara went from the promos for the new series (which I bought but still haven’t had the chance to read). I kind of hoped they’d have ended up all a bigger part of the Gillen/McKelvie Young Avengers but…

Back in the day when I was a kid there was a film site that I don’t remember having much editorializing but it would basically chronologically track all the production details and/or rumors about a film. It was old enough to have frames and columns, but for the life of me I can’t remember any details about what this…

The first tweet I wouldn’t consider racist though it is ill-advised from a well-known alt-leaning public figure trying to troll normal people and/or cement his appeal with the people he’a nominally condemned already.

They already did one surprise return to the character, maybe there’s this one sketch that won’t happen for awhile but will pepper him in every goddamned chance they get before hand too? (Sort of like when they had Kate McKinnon silently texting as Conway in the periphery of sketches.)

Aside from that death, Burn, and subsequent everything, the line that gets to me most is “I stop wasting time on tears, I live another 50 years.”

After Toxic when did people really have negative opinions of Spears? (She’s had some ups and downs since then but I thought people were kind of sympathetic to her mental health struggles so it seems like she’s mostly been out of the public eye aside from how she comes off like a fairly loving parent and the occasional…

I liked that recommendation reveal scene too and I feel like the show was pleasant enough and looked great (as someone who’s not caught basically any TV Star Trek), but I’m still not sure they established the characters very well.

That sort of feels like a decent point though, I was left wondering what the joke was after the scene. It could have been vaguely useful shorthand to remind everyone the gimmicks of all the characters rather than letting me spin in circles trying to come up with an answer between scenes.

Did this trailer seem a little muddled and wonkily edited compared to the first one? It had a cute punchline but it seemed a little weird they decided to set up that the characters were smuggling out the creature before they established why they would want to.

I think this might be me giving people too little credit and I see what you’re saying, but it feels like there’s a distinction in those two examples.

There are like 60 of them so I was kind of vague since I don’t actually know anything about them, having went to American public schools.

That seems like a somewhat uneven comparison since for all the different ethnic enclaves in China, 90% of the people have the same background make it fairly homogenous. If you’re posing the entire country as a threat then its residents are implicitly the issue too.

If I interpreted that correctly, I could see someone being a little concerned the film might suggest that all gay men are obsessed with youth (fair enough) but particularly lean into scaremongering about age ranges. Like it did become an easy target here even if in media we tend to frequently see even bigger age gaps…

With the last team on an ongoing it seemed heavily hinted that was the plan too. I’ve missed a lot of the intervening years though on when and where the characters turn up though, I read Arena and a handful of other appearances but it seems a little weird to only return to the original cast-ish of the book. (I’ve…