100%.

K.E.V.I.N. Can Feige Himself

I agree that Jen defying and retconning a cluttered, predictable ending leads to a cluttered, rushed ending instead, but yeah overall I forgive it. Skewering K.E.V.I.N. and the algorithmically-designed finales earned this episode a LOT of goodwill for me.

Blonsky should have been either in on the Intelligencia, or…

Surely every position where there’s lots of celebrity and/or or authority draws people with some pretty severe personality flaws, be it police officers or TikTok stars. But I like to think that some people basically endure celebrity, rather than pursue it, if they have high-profile careers.

But yeah, on some level you…

I’m always amused by artists who get so deeply offended by negative criticism of their work. If you’re not ready to be criticized, don’t put work out there for consumption and charge people to see it. Audiences deserve to know whether or not the thing they’re about to spend money on is worth the investment.

Very glad…

Biggest flaw of the sequel trilogy, IMO.

Not going to go to bat too hard for Alan Moore’s general cynicism towards everything, and towards Marvel/DC comics in particular. That said, it isn’t surprising if people with fascist-friendly politics also love fiction in which unique and special people use their above-normal strengths to defeat evil through…

Yeah, so I imagine it’ll be a broad strokes sort of thing, if anything. Which is fine with me. Keeping Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock is already keeping the best part of any of the Netflix shows if you ask me, the rest is just gravy.

Yeah I could see Daredevil being chalked up as yet another thing only New Yorkers care about. Like how everyone thinks they’ve had a good bagel, until they try one from an actual New York deli and realize what they’ve been missing. 

I don’t know The Leader well from the comics, but it would be a far cry from the Samuel Sterns we met in the Incredible Hulk film. Unless he’s egging them on to use toxic incels as disposable patsies to get what he’s really after, which would make sense I guess.

For what it’s worth, there was at least one moment where the Daredevil series theme song was used. I’m thinking they know Daredevil, at least, was a very popular show (especially compared to the mixed bag of the rest of the Netflix shows), so they’re probably going to keep everything as long as it’s convenient to do…

Here’s a wild take:

If Tolkien is spinning in his grave because his work has been altered from his original vision to include people of more diverse skin colors? Good.

I don’t need permission from long-dead men who lived through the height of English imperialism to want fantasy to be less of an ethnic monopoly. 

Pitting Wakanda against Atlantis/Talocan is very clever. Not just because it happened recently in the comics, though that’s a nice bonus. But also because Talocan can now be a sci-fi/fantasy look at a New World empire that was never conquered and exploited by European colonialism, just like Wakanda is that for African…

The Mandalorian season 1 was such a breath of fresh air, with all sorts of familiar things but in new ways. And it stood alone, and told a great little adventure story with some cool characters.

Then season 2 had to slavishly tie itself to every other Dave Filoni project and get stuffed full of cameos and the bigger…

Yeah, for something that started out as an homage to action-adventure serials, there’s often very little adventure.

Luke got thrust into a mission to save a princess from an evil empire’s secret base, befriended a soundrel and his giant dog-beast best friend, barely escaped a swamp-monster in the garbage, got a smooch…

Tonally the movie was all over the damn place. So I’m not surprised that a movie goes from “Jane has terminal cancer” to “Thor finds his sole surviving childhood friend half-alive and mutilated, then makes a joke about her missing arm” also included a scene where Gorr carves off his own tattoos.

The idea of Putin’s government having any good-faith ties to the West to begin with is pretty laughable. 

I love a contrarian think piece as much as the next AV Club reader, but this is quite a reach to suggest that this wasn’t just a flash in the pan. Those happen too, you know. Turning it into a theme park experience, a film franchise and a merchandizing bonanza aren’t evidence that yes, we all actually *did* think it…

I guess it’s more accurate to say that the Dwarves kept to themselves and that there was a mutual othering. Anyway, here’s info on how their language is based on Hebrew and other Semitic languages, including a few quotes from Tolkien about how the Dwarves in his story took at least some level of inspiration from the…

Tolkien: “I hate allegory”

Also Tolkien: “Here’s a story about dwarves, who are a displaced people perpetually othered by most in Middle-Earth, and whose language is based on Hebrew, trying make their way back to their homeland.”

The guy worked professionally in folklore and fairy tale. Allegory is baked into the DNA of…