I think that was a fair point, though.

It would be a little weird if, to humor some demos, she had to be a derivative monster of one of the other preexisting monsters. She doesn’t share many of the same design tropes as Frankenberry? 

The concept album (with a crazy lineup of vocalists) and the original off Broadway cast recording have both been out for awhile, I do get the argument that it would be hard to redo that with 19 musicians when they’re mostly Fat Boy Slim beats?https://open.spotify.com/album/78JwlqX2qAedtJN11U5qkW?si=e1OpR9APQN2ZTdvI-BdP…

Do any witches still wear a hat? I’ll drink to that. 

I would have been perfectly happy if this show were a spiritual sequel to Wandavision, with Hahn playing Agnes as the only sitcom character in a gently traumatized town.

I thought Annette Benning was Mar-Vell but it’s just most of her backstory was all left implicit. I’m not that familiar with the Kree space stuff though so maybe that doesn’t really align. 

At first I thought “unimaginable” was some editorializing but I scrounged for another article and it seems like that’s their infuriating official description.

I get that it was an honest mistake, but it’s not a great look that the article indicates the stars of RRR performed the big song from the movie, when the embedded video has the names of the actual performers.

It’s a weird concept for a film and the age gap certainly makes it iffier but it does seem like an existing narrative trope that happens a lot more— the idea that parents are concerned about their sons being virgins and sometimes are desperate enough to hire sex workers as a misguided confidence booster/rite of passage…

The Blank Check podcast made me hyper aware of weird billing— it’s interesting Ke Huy Quan gets top billing per this teaser?

I liked the book enough though it’s a little boggling how very little of it seems present from the teaser footage so far. The most provocative content with the cousin I assume there’s no chance in hell they could pull off. Nor the blond kid subplot?

Debbie Harry’s not on this track despite the Parton press release, right? I assume she’d have featured in the separately shot music video if she were. Wonder what happened there. (Does she have strong feelings about the Patriots or just wasn’t available?)

I liked Nope a lot, but I can’t place why it’s under consideration, did I miss something?

I thought it was going to be a comedy in some capacity, but what surprised me was it taking place in modern day. (I kind of figured it was going to be a colorblind cast period movie.)

It’s in spitting distance of working I assume. The kid was introduced, came back in the sequel about three years older, got replaced when there was a time jump five years forward from Infinity War in 2018… and they’re replacing the actress again for this new sequel.

I’ve seen the movie but I would argue some of the things you labeled as minor spoilers were also pretty big components regardless if someone’s seen the other movie for further context. 

I’ve only seen bits and pieces but they have had a surprising and bizarre array of pretty big names buried among the “who?”s. A bunch of soul/RnB legends, Kermit the Frog, Mikey Rourke, Giuliani… not all that many movie stars now I think about it though?

Whatever works for her works. I think it’s funny in comparison knowing that she did/does a lot of internal work but there was a clip of her staring into the middle distance while doing a zoom junket with Lady Gaga discussing her own elaborate process for presumably the umpteenth time  

Is there any historical tie in the comics between South Korea and Black Panther I wasn’t aware of?

I thought it was an odd choice until I got to the “cocktease” component of the quote and I guess they just really leaned into the innuendo of it all.