I think that you’ve hit the nail on the head with a lot of the concerns people have with the season so far when you’ve talked about Rebecca’s arch. All of the main characters completed their arch in season 1, and season 2 spent the majority of the time so far setting up a whole other one. Usually (especially for…

I often compare Lee to Eastwood. As personas, they’ve become predictable self-parodies, molding their images seemingly to fit public perception. As filmmakers they’re empathetic, idiosyncratic, and unpredictable. I don’t think it’s performance art though - I think artists often can only access that part of themselves…

I regret to inform you, his groundbreaking career says otherwise.

There was legit Oscar talk for HER, so Scarlett has voice cred.

Hope died on a mission in Odessa.

C’mon now, they feel terrible about the way they continued to beat that dead horse, and to make it up to you they’re going to dig up that carcass for one last go ‘round the track!

The series......... ultimately didn’t fit with the Showtime brand: “We were intimately involved .......but the truth is it was always a bit of an outlier for us in terms of the fitting into the Showtime universe,” Levine said.

for my money iron man 3 had some of the funniest stuff in the mcu. 

I kind of know how you feel. Holland hasn’t really gotten a proper “spider-man” movie. Tony was a huge part of the first one. Tony loomed so large over the sequel, and the thing wasn’t in NY, and had the shades/Happy/Beck as angry ex-Stark person.

it makes it harder and harder to say that these are assembly line. Like, we know they’re going to fight a bad guy at the end and 95% chance they’ll win, but if every other major franchise is any indication there is no formula for consistently making lovable characters that we want to return to other than hard…

Was that Science Squid at the end?

There are now almost as many MCU films as there are James Bond films, which are really the only two franchises that can be compared. And there are a lot of James Bond films that don’t hold up today, either subject wise (You Only Live Twice) or for the problematic content (a whole lot of them). But there are also…

There are also good assembly lines and bad ones. Some make solid products, some don’t. Marvel’s make solid products, and this is due to a few things:

Honestly, making a *good* assembly line product is its own art form because you consistently get the same results for your money. It’s pretty difficult to make this many pretty good action movies in a row

well they’re just different assembly lines.

I’m incredibly excited to watch this and am rooting for this movie to succeed. I’m a big fan of Kim’s Convenience, a big fan of Simu Liu, a big fan of Awkwafina, and a big fan of the MCU telling more diverse stories.

If anything the less realistic thing was Dubai Air continuing to sponsor the team. Bantr feels like a pretty realistic Championship level sponsor. 

It’s gonna take a long time for Rhys Darby to call roll for an entire pirate ship!

Yeah, but my point mostly is that this isn’t really a show that’s concerned about the finances of a football club (while some of it is undoubtably down to COVID, it’s not even much interested in the appearance of what running a football club would look like) so I just mostly think people expecting stuff like the Dubai…

Yeah, I’m currently re-watching the original series after finishing Rebuild 4 last weekend. Amazing how well the two versions play off of one another if you adhere to the idea that Rebuild is a continuation not a redo.