the flashback montage was done in such a way that it didn’t actually reference anything from that movie, but didn’t contradict anything either

Which, frankly, we should get on top congress to end. It’s fucking baffling to me that there are any tax benefits at all to consolidation. The whole point of this “free market” thing is supposed to be MORE competition, not less. (Yeah, I know, rich assholes are gonna rich assole, but still . . .)

This is one of those shows I perpetually think was cancelled, like, five years ago. And no wonder, 17 fucking years! Damn. They’ve got ER beat by two years and THAT show felt like it went on five years longer than it should’ve. 

It’d be funny of Netflix came in a hoovered up all of the dumped content and ate Discovery’s lunch. 

You do realize that it’s not a choice between one or the other, right? It’s not like Disney is saying, “golly-gee, we’d love to help the animators, but then the firefighters won’t get paid what they’re worth!” 

What I find interesting is that there was an arc to the first few seasons. Rick doesn’t exactly GROW, but he is revealed. For the others, there’s the shock of Rick revealing his world, the nihilism inherent in the whole multiverse shenanigans and all the existential crisis that result, but they eventually get past that…

Yeah, this is definitely a “scary” movie that will find regular rotation at 10 year olds’ sleepovers like Hocus Pocus.

I love this line so much:

I don’t think anyone was particularly offended by orcs being evil, it was just people being a little thoughtful and saying, “ya know, it doesn’t actually make sense for a whole sapient species to be inherently evil.”

I was kinda on-the-fence about TFA, figuring that it had a lot of heavy lifting to do and re-mixing ANH was an interesting approach and I was willing to give it the benefit of a doubt until I saw what they had planned for a follow-up.

not for the narrative concept, but because of the enormously clumsy and ham-fisted execution of it.

Well, Heisenberg is a badass, that’s part of the brilliance of that show. They get you on Walter’s side so completely in the early going that you’re rooting for him long after you probably should’ve been, so when you figure out that, oh shit, this dude’s a monster, it forces you to re-evaluate how long you’ve been…

Yeah, Ms. Marvel rushed the Pakistan visit (they churned through a metric fuck-ton of exposition and plot in a single episode with a bunch of coincidence and time-compacting to squeeze it all in) but aside from that it’s been utterly delightful.

The word might end in an S, but is it ever plural?

Yup, my first two words are AUDIO and MELTS. It covers all your vowels and whether the word is a plural.

Yeah, watching the shit-broke but clever and resourceful Gallaghers hustle and scam their way into keeping a roof over their heads was a lot of fun. Watching them nearly dig themselves out of poverty only to make an immensely stupid decision that derails any progress over and over again decidedly wasn’t. Once I…

Well, that’s the issue, though. Prior to this, Quill wasn’t “suspicious of affection in general”. That’s not the Quill from the first movie, if anything he was the peacemaker willing to go out on a limb and connect with all of these weirdos ready to kill each other. Likewise, Gamora wasn’t exactly a beacon of …

Eh, I think that it’s functionally impossible to do a “modern Confederacy” show. There’s no way to do it without either, 1) REALLY toning down how phenomenally racist the country was and would still be, or 2) Normalizing and humanizing truly monstrous racism, where even the “good guys” are just super, super, SUPER…

Also, the running gag (that was continued in The Avengers) of Thor being knocked out of frame by something bigger than him. (Hit by a car twice in Thor, hit by Hulk in Avengers). 

I think the problem with Ultron is that James Spader’s style of snark is completely different from RDJs style of snark. You don’t really feel like one came from the other. Also, Age of Ultron never bothered to answer the question of why Ultron goes all genocide-happy immediately after being “born”. Doctor Cho literally…