There was a point where the three Ultimate books, were the biggest books in the entire industry. I still can’t believe Marvel purposely torpedoed the Ultimate line with irreversible continuity in Ultimatum. They really burned the house down to save face on the 616 books.

It was garbage comics, but it wasn’t garbage concepts. I’m all in favor of leaving this kind of thing to lie fallow for someone else to pick up rather than burning it down, because you never know when someone might look at a D-list hero like Animal Man and say, “Hmmm...”

89 Years of Academy Award history suggests otherwise.

No the Academy doesn’t award “great” movies. They award what they consider the best movie of the year, regardless as to whether it was “great” or not. There have been a lot of films to win Oscars that are not “great” movies.

Suicide Squad has an Oscar. Your argument is invalid.

Yeah, my only complaint was that it was hard to take this guy seriously as the big bad.

Granted, there were legitimate criticisms of the final battle between Wonder Woman and Ares, mainly in terms of its length and unnecessary intensity

Didn’t they revive the Ultimates at the end of the most recent Ultimates² run by Al Ewing? Technically, somewhere in the 616 there should be a ship with Ultimate versions of Giant-Man, Hulk, Captain America, Wasp and Iron Man. So who are these guys?

Yeah, this one seems the most disconnected from the MCU outof all the MCU tv shows, and it’s probably better that it stays in it’s own little hub considering how many inconsistencies there are just in the way characters react to things that should probably not be considered impossible.

The answer is that this show isn’t in the MCU. I know they say otherwise but literally nothing hints toward it, even when it would make total sense to. This show barely seems like a Marvel based show much less an MCU one.

So this show suffers from the same issue the Netflix stuff does. Not enough plot to fill out a whole season.

So, I simultaneously think that taking a full season for the kids to run away was the right choice, and yet the series did it in all the wrong ways. They just wasn’t enough plot here to justify a full season. They made some smart choices - like rounding out the parents and adding more conflicts there - but then…

This was the episode that made me actually angry at the pacing and focus choices of this show. When they started writing this show, they had to have some idea what would be the core narratives heading in to the final episode and what were the central relationships. So if they knew that and were planning on having…

If someone had told me at the beginning of the series that it would take them 10 episodes to catch up with the second issue of the comic, I would have assumed they were joking.

“Trust us, this is going to get good after like seven full hours of wheel-spinning” doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.

Would a thread appreciating the first issue of Mr. Narcisse’s spectacular Rise of the Black Panther comic qualify as a conflict of interest? Because godDAMN does that deserve some props.

I don’t know why i09 persists on using that term. Every film ever made is in some genre or another. Genre film could mean anything.

The car’s parents sold it for drinking money.

My impression is that he’s playing dumb during an interrogation with Klaue.

That’d be nice! But it’s not a sign of great storytelling when producers have to spoil future events to reassure the audience that they aren’t completely fucking up.

You’re crushing it with these reviews Allison. “They ruined everything, those stupid bitches.” Leading us on a merry chase indeed. I liked the episode too, they’re moving the story along at a good clip.