Realistically.  No.  Labor day is day #4 of its release and it’s a Monday.  For a historical precedent, you can look at the percentages of the film whose record it just broke.  Halloween made a little over $4 million on Labor Day Monday in 2007 with was a day-to-day dropoff of about 71%.  Shang Chi will overperform if…

She directed one movie prior to Wonder Woman.  14 years beforehand.  Yes, it was a well regarded 1 movie, but let’s not act as though Patty Jenkins is Kathryn Bigelow.

Not really.  Her being invited superficially seems to be the ‘branch’ point, but in order this episode’s scenario to work, you need both a ‘branch’ point and a ‘divergence’ point where Strange actually falls in love with Christine Palmer, which he wasn’t in the movie.  If Palmer had accepted I guess we’ll call him…

A lot of things bothered me about this episode, starting with the assumption that Christine Palmer was somehow Stephen Strange’s ‘heart,’ especially when the Dr. Strange movie pretty explicitly demonstrates that he never loved her at all. Which means that there is no real ‘divergence’ point of this episode, which is…

I didn’t think it was particularly well executed. There was nothing in the text of the Dr. Strange movie that implied that Stephen Strange ever really loved Christine Palmer.  

Just as an aside, replacing a hand with a long edged blade like that is, in general, not a great idea because a very large portion of what makes an excellent sword fighter excellent is wrist dexterity.

I was never a fan of that one.  There’s just something off about that actor’s delivery of it that telegraphs the joke too much.

For awhile, I thought the ‘turn’ was going to be that Dr. Strange was going to figure out that in order to save Christine, he would have to ‘give up’ something he valued more than his love for her, ie, his skill as a surgeon, which would have dove-tailed the story in a meta way into what actually happened.

That’s pretty much true for any performer who becomes know for a specific role, not just Marvel roles.

I can see why all the Rogue parts were cut.  It added quite a bit to the run time without adding much to the story except to reveal where a major character who had not yet appeared in the movie was.

Okay. TAS 2 grossed $709 billion WW and Far From Home grossed $1.1 bn. Again, we’re talking a very large fraction if we want to use your terminology. No one is disputing that the Marvel version makes more money, but the lion’s share of the ‘more money’ goes to Disney, not Sony. Sony makes some money off the Marvel…

That really isn’t true.  Unless you mean a very large fraction.  The Amazing Spider-Man grossed about 760 million.  Spider-Man Homecoming grossed about 880 million, so yes, the MCU version did make more, but it wasn’t, say, like one was Endgame and the other was Birds of Prey.

I think it largely depends on how good Shang Chi is and, more importantly, whether it’s a huge flop, which, when you combine the Pandemic era causing people not to want to go to theaters, Marvel’s decision not to simultaneously release it on Disney +, the relative obscurity of the character, and the fact that Shang…

Hopefully this season does right by Lily Rabe, who hasn’t been particularly well-served by her stints on American Horror Story since playing the devil-possessed nun in the Asylum season. She always seems to play a character that has an interesting aesthetic, but ends up being pretty underwhelming in execution.

I loved the Butler.

Moondragon, Misty Knight, Viper, Lady Deathstrike, Yukio

Sort of looks like this doubles as the second Dr. Strange movie as well as the third Spider-Man movie by how much Strange is featured in the trailer.

Fwiw, he already had the power stone when he fought the Hulk.

Dr. Strange appeared quite groovy in this film.

Early seasons of Arrow were quite good.