or it’s been a thing for decade after decade. ugh, Barsanti

Thanks! I’ll watch it fully later, but I did watch a few minutes and a) he’s well-spoken, b) calm, c) doesn’t have a voice that that makes me want take a rotary hammer to my eardrums. (That’s not damning with faint praise - look, you know what YouTube’s like.)

Totally, 100% fair.

He’s early Tony Stark but with magic this time, which they made abundantly clear in the first Doctor Strange movie. It makes sense that, with RDJ gone, they’d have Strange be the one getting arrogant and stupid. I guess that means his Avengers: Age of Ultron is coming up soon.

If the objective is catering to the same fanbase forevermore (and hoping it doesn’t dwindle over time as it ages), then you’re right. The issue is appealing to new viewers as well, and the MCU is now straight-up impenetrable for someone who isn’t willing to put 100+ hours into getting to know the various characters, st…

I watched some clips from back in Breaking Bad. Gus seems a bit more positive and upbeat there, at least sometimes (e.g. the sequence where he invites Walt over for dinner); in BCS he’s just grim menacing gloom all the time.

Just reading this gave me a massive headache. 

Speaking of Moon Knight, that introduces Egyptian Gods and mythology, but they haven’t explained yet how that ties into the MCU universe. Are they Celestials/Eternals too?

62 on Metacritic.

Someone told me there were references to “What If” and I was like, “Shit, I have to finish that before I see this movie.”

they’ve also released 6 entire tv shows and 4 movies since wandavision came out almost a year and a half ago. i watched it, but it’s not exactly fresh.

Marvel’s/Disney’s fervent desire to the contrary, a movie should be self-contained and capable of telling its own story. If it’s a sequel, sure you can expect your viewers to have seen the previous entry or entries, but expecting them to also watch through a bunch of (paywalled) limited TV series is a bridge too far…

Moon Knight is a bit clunky, it took 5 episodes out of 6 to make any sort of sense, but Oscar Issac is the best actor I can recall in ANY MCU Disney+ franchise I have seen. 

but he remains a first-tier filmmaker

Because it dominates far too much of the cultural discourse and film-making world.

There’s that level of maturity, wit, and and intelligence we’ve come to expect from the comic book crowd. You’re a classy, classy fandom, you are.

Jesus, I cannot wait until this Marvel thing dies down.

Sally’s slip back into her people-pleaser mode with Barry is so creepy. The spaghetti, the gaming controller -- it’s all deeply disturbing. This season is definitely lighter on the laughs and pitching toward the real-world horror of this world. It’s a really interesting reinvention. 

I can see both Chloe and Natalie finding out about Barry’s secret; Chloe through some helpful investigating, Natalie through resentment boiling over into hiring a hitman to kill Sally.