The problem with Andor is that they showed the character dying.  And to many fans, that will always make this show a ‘prequel.’  And there’s nothing that a significant portion of the viewing audience hates more than ‘prequels.’

It really is kind of a bizarre take by Barsanti here. Zan and Jayna were the characters introduced specifically for the Super Friends cartoon, so almost 3/4 of the episodes were written in such a way to introduce scenarios in which the Wonder Twins were patently NOT useless, but actually the key to resolving whatever…

I always found Weaving to be sort of stilted, which worked well for Elrond and Smith, (to a lesser extent), but definitely started to hit the ‘diminishing returns’ stage quickly with other roles.

I enjoyed Jessica Henwick more in Iron Fist than I’ve enjoyed her in anything else to date.

Without going into great detail, I’ve actually seen all of the movies they nominated for once and thought The Power of the Dog was easily the best among a relatively weak list.  I think your list is probably reflective of most of my reaction to the year, other than you obviously liking West Side Story more than I did.

Like what?

I suspect because of the way that streaming services diffuse entertainment, almost everything from here-on-out that is supposed to be ‘star driven’ is going to feel lower wattage than it did in the 80's, 90's, and 00's.  Stars in generally are simply becoming less ‘big’ than they were in the past.

It is so utterly weird that it is Ahsoka Tano, of all the characters in Star Wars history, who is espousing this nonsense also.

I don’t really think it does. ‘No attachments’ strikes me as the type of thing that a young male writer in his 20's would come up with as a form of ‘wisdom’ after a particularly dramatic breakup of the type that people have in their 20's, followed by gradually more and more attempts in the prose to attempt justify…

I honestly am not sure I would have fun with any game based around parkour, unless my parkour was enhanced by, you know, the proportionate speed and strength of a radioactive spider.

Kate Winslet’s first role was in a movie that she got nude in.  

Do they even have commercials for Star Wars figures anymore?

Neeson often leaned into his physicality. Or else the people who cast him knew his background well enough to capitalize on his background as an athlete.  It’s not surprising that two of his earliest roles were ‘fighting’ based ones in Excalibur and Krull.

I really liked the fact the his Peter Parker and Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy really sort of seemed to love each other in a pure kind of way, instead of the ‘sort of tolerates him’ way that Zendaya’s MJ seems to feel about Tom Holland’s Peter Parker or the ‘tragic angst love, but certainly open to dumping him the moment…

Okay, good talk.

Yes, but the police have a videotape of a criminal confessing her crimes to Wilson Fisk and him acknowledging on tape that she committed said crimes on his behalf.  His lawyers would fight to suppress the tape as evidence in a trial, but his secrecy, which is largely his biggest assets as a crimelord is now blown. …

It also makes very little sense to introduce Fisk and then immediately expose him as the Kingpin by have Eleanor Bishop’s video become public knowledge, because the thing that makes Wilson Fisk so dangerous in the context of the world is the resources and assets he can bring to bear against a hero, not that he has the…

I think the assumption that Maya killed the Kingpin when it occurred offscreen and after they went through all the trouble to bring D’Onofrio back is jumping to a major conclusion that really isn’t supported.  These are basically comic books brought to life and the one overwhelming truism of comic books for nearly the…

If someone dislikes a film so much that they turn it off before seeing all of it, it is pretty unlikely they are going to nominate it for an Academy Award if they had just buckled down and watched the rest.

“Tortured Exposition Dumps” should be the subhead for all of the Matrix movies, including the first one.  Graceful world-building has never been the writing strength of the Wachowskis.