Hah. That’s fun. As a kid I had the whole pages of Henri Vernes’ “L’ennemi invisible” explaining how the distance between atoms is merely reduced, meaning there’s no gain or loss of force, mass, weight (at some point, the regular-sized hero is pinned down by a full-weight miniature man). Ant-Man tries to explain it…

I heard of that episode but didn’t watch it, so I may be wrong, but I assume the stretch isn’t as easy and capricious as Mr Fantastic’s “let’s grab that bulb over there”. And that makes a difference of degree.

Yes, I’d say the line would run between these two. Add the fact that Ant-Man doesn’t shrink by the pure willpower, but uses a suit. It’s pretty limited. And it implies (even though there’s a lot of inconsistencies on that) some mass conservation.

It genuinely gives me an impression of “oh no we’ve alienated the magas by casting a woman in that movie, let’s throw them a bone by making the villains some anti-mexican-wall extremists”. We’ll see how the protect-our-flags-and-borders message goes in the series, but let’s say the worse would be quite in line with my…

“Oh cool. TV was becoming boring.” - G.R.R. Martin

Where’s tweeterdelete.net ?

For me, Sandman’s issue is also that it stands behind the line of “somewhat physically thinkable” character. It’s a very arbitrary line, but I can more easily suspend disbelief in front of chemical supersoldiers, alien gods and spider hybrids jumping around, firing lasers through their eyes, headbutting locomotives…

Hm. Katie Rife’s absence on this will frustrate me. Especially the opportunities for her laughter.

Essentially playing possum, this weekend.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/18/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-review-marvel-disney-plus-avengers

On the other hand, I could start a flamewar with my earlier self, and he wouldn’t be able to argue back.

I just can’t unsee Yaphet Kotto now.

Yeah. The problem with that in that, in french, “Anon” means literally “offspring of an ass”.

Everything’s ok with the alien spacecraft from planet 10 and we should not go ahead and destroy Russia.

Aha, ok.

“We live in a society” was a stock phrase used unironically by a lot of incels and “nice guys”

It all started in 2018 when someone named Bill Wilson made a petition asking Joaquin Phoenix to say “We live in a society” in Todd Phillips’ Joker.

It’s a spectacularly stupid point, but it doesn’t equate with “being trans is some sort of highly convoluted ploy to gain access to women’s restrooms”. Those kind of translations are dishonest.

Fun fact : I was already watching it “at my leisure”.

Which means checking AVClub titles every three weeks only ?