In pop music’s defense, Nirvana were also a whole lot of canned, plastic Top 40 bullshit

unthinkable!

I’m gonna go to bat for him that in his Buffy era, at least, he was one of the best writers and directors TV had ever seen. I mean the man wrote The Body, that’s proof enough

I fucking know right? it sounds like it’s gonna be one of his best songs, the chorus and coda bit with the choir are unbelievable

4 > 5 > 3 > 2 > 1 for me. even though I understand where people would dislike 5, I think this show basically improved year to year with 4 being the absolute peak of the formula. very excited for 6 and 7 but not sure how they’re gonna top what they’ve done already

I totally get it, it’s just a shame, especially given how good the show got season 3 and onwards.

my favourite MCU film too, and easily the tightest in terms of direction, plot and action - this is the one I can genuinely imagine myself still watching in 10 or 15 years’ time. also, while I definitely understand the impulse, everyone who writes off the first 2/3 of AoS s1 as being bad seems to forget how good…

I mean they tend to have directed most of the best Marvel movies to be fair

yeah, leaving Bubblin and Till It’s Over off the main tracklist was a crazy bad move, especially given some of the filler that made it in their place. Ventura is top to bottom bangers though and not a minute overlong

I don’t know, his best might be that verge-of-teary-eyed reaction to that talk between him and Amy in He Said She Said. that shit had me tearing all the way up

shit. I meant to type IM2 in response to your original comment, that’s what I was referring to. this is why AV Clubbing at 5am is bad. but hey, at least we agree on IM3 being good!

See, I’m on the opposite end there, because while IM3 is messy and tonedeaf I at least finds bits of engaging or memorable. The Dark World is such a faceless, grey slog of absolute mediocrity and to me that’s far worse.

Samberg’s dramatic acting has been really, really good this season and last.

Hiddleston is so good in this movie he almost redeems it from being the worst Marvel film - I say almost. the scene when you see what the cell really looks like and his argument with Odin at the start are possibly his best work in the role

I really like it too - it has a genuine tonal darkness to it that doesn’t feel forced, and the scenes of Stark and Happy coming up against the Extremis soldiers are genuinely some of the tensest action scenes in the MCU. (Stark blowing up that one with just an open gas line and dogtags in a microwave is easily one of…

a really underrated moment is the whole Lorne/Lindsay scene, too. Lindsay’s utter horror at getting taken out by someone he basically thinks of as a supporting character is fantastic, and then the way Lorne just walks out devastated is almost as impactful as anything else in the episode

Hulkbuster is, of course, great but it feels like a short excerpt from a totally different movie that found its way into AoU - just one of my very many complaints with how that movie is paced and written lol

yeah Angel’s finale is probably the best I’ve seen to this day. it’s the perfect sendoff to the characters and the philosophy of the show without *literally* ending the story itself. and that Wesley scene...

always thought that Age of Ultron opening scene was really forced and clunky-looking, honestly. Quicksilver messing with Hawkeye is the only bit I like. give me Civil War in the airport any day

I had no idea she directed for Atlanta, this was a great interview