...I brought that up in the first place.

Is there anything at all to be read into the final live action frames being from Shang Chi? Is it since they’re just so emotionally worn out from Black Widow nominally being out about a year ago or is it because there was especially positive response to the Shang Chi trailer (I tend to see a lot of AAPI press and…

Up until this series he didn’t interact with ANYONE romantically. His one comic romance is now dead, and I hardly remember them even being in the same frame or talking to one another.

Again, it doesn’t have to be sexual or anything, but going off the death of the author or whatever and if people want to go off anything that isn’t canceled out by what the story explicitly stated— a man holding his relationship with someone he knew nearly 80 years ago over the desires of his friends and government…

Up until this series he’s been too preoccupied and too much of a side character to have anything approaching a romantic interior life. (I think he had arranged a double date with Steve in the first CA movie?) I think it’s fair enough that audiences could interpret a relationship strong enough to go against governments…

If they wanted to disabuse people of that premise they could have just said it— the way the director did. However, when the head writer is asked about it and his answer was “keep watching” rather than just shooting it down then it’s fair that audiences might have expected something. 

Somehow I got this series mixed up with Charles Burns’ Black Hole and I thought the trailer spent a surprisingly long preamble to get to the point of an STD that mutated teenagers.

I was pleasantly surprised by the fairly mindful discussion of race regarding Tiki and the main ensemble, going as far as to consider redubbing the character with the original actress. I’m a pretty staunch defender of Not Another Teen Movie, but having Samm Levine play an Asian stereotype seemed like calling out a bad…

I’m surprised no one has ever tried to do a Marvel or X-Men movie with Arcade in it— that’s the perfect opportunity for all spectacle and loose character building but absolutely no stakes.

I just wasn’t sure how many of the characters had an explicit heritage in the play and/or movie other than the two cases I remember where they explicitly called out in the lyrics— but I’m aware they’ve been open about changing some of the details, like omitting a Trump reference because it became way more loaded.

Assuming the other one was In the Heights, it’s been awhile for me but is Usnavi the only Dominican one? Or did they change things to reflect Anthony Ramos background? I forget if any of the characters make anything explicit. (I think I remember the black guy is specifically not Latino and Abuela Claudia is Cuban? Is…

There were relatively a lot of non-white Flag Smashers— her lead moral lieutenant was Asian, there was at least two black women (one of them was super powered, another was a nameless park extra), some that read as Latino, and the offer who loaded them into the truck. Granted it’s also such a hugely muddled mess of…

Malcolm Spellman sort of copped out with his response to the “is Bucky bi” question by essentially just saying “stay tuned.”

Yeah, someone being totally cool with their powers and just having the wish fulfillment of it all would probably be dramatically inert so fair enough.

That part really made me somewhat conflicted since when the Dora Milaje said it, that seemed fun even though yeah, that’s exactly what the Avengers generally did too.

I thought it wasn’t subtle but fitting that the only two women of color with speaking lines were the ones nominally interested in recognizing the personhood of those refugees and that they needed supplies to be banished to the camps. It didn’t seem especially like many of the other cared.

I think he wore the mask very very briefly in the fight scene amongst the containers in the episode where they introduced it in the first place?

I was just reframing it it as an accusation I’ve seen thrown Whedon’s way that was slightly less narrow but still reasonably close— that was meant to be the precise phrasing as opposed to a direct quote but I guess in hindsight I could have been clearer about it.

“Woman with power and suffering because of it” could plausibly cover Drusilla, Illyria kind of, Fred, Cordelia, Kitty Pryde, River, Willow-ish, Echo, November, and probably others.

With Buffy and Angel he did relatively frequently revisit the coming of age for his vampires and he did a run on the Runaways comic (that simultaneously kept the series afloat and temporarily killed it?) where the characters travelled back to early 1900s-ish New York, despite primarily taking place in modern day…