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You don't have to like the music. But if you don't see that that soundtrack is funny, the movie may not be for you.
I love that this movie is doing everything in its power to be completely unique and different from the other Marvel properties. It is going to be something special.
I thought these were great. It's true that they aren't really understandable without their titles, but I don't think that is an overly negative facet. It is still the case that so much is done with so few ingredients.
BTVS Season 2 Finale
I can't fault the Doctor and Rose farewell for doing well. It's a phenomenal moment precisely because it is so completely different than everything that came before. (And in terms of SF&F, there's not much with more "before" than Doctor Who.) I'm not going to add one since someone already did, but I did want to defend…
First 2 seasons, IMHO, were wonderful. Season 3? Unwatchable. I didn't even watch the finale. I'll give Season 4 a shot, but if it's anything like Season 3? I'll stop watching.
For me it was Angel: Not Fade Away. It finished the storyline built up very well and then left you with that "no-hope" fight. Loved the comics afterwards but as a finale to the series, it worked well for me personally.
Before anyone says, "You didn't know this?!" or "You don't already do this?" No.
Rocky and Bullwinkle. Every episode started with an infodump, usually with the interaction of one more more of the characters, and as funny in those 30 seconds as you will find on a half hour of Big Bang Theory.
For example:
Terry Pratchett. Basically any of the info-dumps or speculations/philosophizing in his Discworld books. (I didn't see him mentioned anywhere, so I thought I would bring that up.)
My favorite exposition dump/ breaking of the fourth wall
Can't find video of it, and it's actually not one single character, but in Big Trouble In Little China, the scene in Wang's kitchen after Jack loses his truck, where everybody who says anything feels the need to give a bunch of background on whatever that character is talking about at the moment.
cleverly woven into the plot, to the point where the episode can't function in any way without this scene, and a rare (perhaps only) time a purely expositional scene also happened to be the best scene of an episode:
This isn't just about nerdrage. The pervasive idea that some genres or story types are "better" than others is patently ridiculous and offensive, and prevents (or hampers) the telling of perfectly cromulent stories.
"For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting-out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No…
If young girls like it, it will be universally vilified.
Fixed that for you