Yeah, this is the first episode in the new season where I had serious issues with believability and also Dexter’s stupidity.

Dick Cavett was making Chris Noth jokes during the great depression!

I’m not worried about Omicron, because after 800k deaths in 20 months, I’m sure Americans are finally ready to open their hearts and minds to science.

This weekend I’ll be continuing to chip away at Tales of Arise. I’m trying to grind a bit by doing sidequests before advancing the story. This is proving to be more difficult than expected. Once you’ve completed the 5th realm, most of the sidequests available are of the “go defeat this high-level boss” boss variety,…

one that’s so maze-like in its possible outcomes

Yup. Nine out of every ten players made it through Mass Effect 2’s final mission with everyone alive. In a mission that functions by design to have you lose some party members—one that’s so maze-like in its possible outcomes you basically need a byzantine flowchart to properly navigate every key decision.

maybe they were at a place in their healing that they could talk about it, and seeing his face so much recently made them want to finally speak out. the thing with sexual violence is that it can take decades before you begin to process it, and instead you just cope with it as best you can. I hope one day I have the…

Maya’s story has definetely been underserved, mainly to keep the Kingpin reveal secret it appears. The basic story is the same, Kingpin killed her father, and then raised her but also used her as an enforcer and told her Daredevil killed her father. Obviously they switched Matt for Clint AND Clint did actually kill…

Banner isn’t going to make a rookie mistake like that.

I think the whole Ronin suit and sword sale was designed to bring Clint out of hiding. They knew that once it is in the open he will, as Yelena said, come to save his reputation. I’m pretty sure that Kingpin would like all his deals with the Ronin to never be discovered so he hired Eleanor to take care of it as her…

The weirdest thing about that is I would compare the MCU to a television series, with the movies being episodes and the Avengers movies being sorts of season finales where all our plotlines come together and conclude (for now). So then the Marvel shows are basically an episode cut into several miniature episodes, as…

NGL I know it was executed *badly*, but I *loved* Topher Grace as Brock/Venom.

dafoe is an oscar winner in the alternate universe that goblin comes from.

I believe this was Dowd’s way of respecting the spoiler embargo but confirming the rumours that Kraven the Hunter will appear played by Dame Judi Dench.

i also think there’s diminishing returns.

We have now gotten three spider-man movies where spider man is essentially a secondary character if them.

Such cruel irony that we finally have a perfectly cast Spider-Man who is more than capable of carrying the franchise on his own in an era when telling straightforward Spider-Man stories is passe and extended universe synergy is in vogue. I know the whole point of the deal bringing Spider-Man back into the…

For a while, the movie remains in the charmingly low-key register of Holland’s previous two solo adventures in the suit, which at their best played like teen comedies with some middling superhero action running in their margins. The stakes here feel similarly scaled to the divided priorities of an adolescent Avenger;…