“Hey, isn’t it convenient that this Jeep that Indy sits in the whole time fits on this set?”

Home, it's where he wants to be.

Surely The Deep's is a fish filet? 

In his defense, of they’re doing a play to recap Ragnarok, Sam Neill now has to play Loki-pretending-to-be-Odin (and probably also Odin) rather than just Odin like last time. And being so peripherally involved as the actors-with-a-movie already are, his confusion is understandable.

Idk, the problem with the idea of Indy spinoffs now is that after Indy 4 and its place in the timeline, spinoffs are all bound to be set in decidedly non-pulp eras like the 60s and 70s. I've always thought of Indy's appeal as "He gets to ancient treasures before the Nazis do."

I don’t know what’s worse, that these things about this movie are true or that an AV Club editor tried to defend them. This article stinks of promotional consideration.

“Whedon is bad” is now one of those pieces of groupthink that will prevent anyone from coming to his defense. They’re going to be savaged by the anti-Whedon mob for going against the approved narrative. No publicist would allow a client to do that, even for a friend.

Wow. Do you even know how ridiculously funny it is to watch an io9 writer sell the CW’s Arrowverse down the river just to turn around and promote HBO Max? After all these years of contractually-obligated positive reviews of that garbage? As though you even have a choice about which shows you’re tasked with marketing…

At this point I'm left to assume that some executive at NBC is a serial-genre-show-killer who gets off on creating shows that the network will never ever invest in.

“but the players (writers) are doing everything they can to win”

If you don’t know by now to never get invested in an NBC genre show that is practically designed to get cancelled after 1 season, well, that’s all on you. Honestly, I don’t even know why NBC continues to half-heartedly try to make sci-fi shows at this point. Genuine nerds have better things to do on Fridays anyway.

“reverse discrimination”

Something tells me that of this show were one of those with white leads, this review would be far less critical of the show’s failures and excuse all of its shortcomings as “But wasn’t it So Much Fun??”

Maybe, just maybe, due to education and exposure to better creative projects, some of us don’t find it so easy to “turn off your brain” the way stupid people do, and so we don’t enjoy projects made for stupid people the way stupid people enjoy them. One person’s “dumb fun” is another’s “this is blatantly moronic…

The cynic in me suspects that the mistakes are deliberate to drive people to the comments. Surely no one who works in nerd media could be dumb enough to believe that the winner is crowned "the Highlander" this way.

Female immortal that Duncan couldn’t bring himself to kill: “Who are you?”

Nah, that’s just lazy Germain, too cool to use a Google and never ashamed of being caught publishing flat-out wrong bullshit.

“That person is crowned Highlander and is bestowed with additional powers.”

This might explain why the Henry “Heavy Superman Suit” Cavill response to ZSJL was so drastically different from the Ray “CGI Costume” Fisher response. 

Isn’t Batista’s beef really with James Gunn though? Gunn is the credited screenwriter and ultimately shaped the character’s current arcs as “strong character who gets beaten by villain to prove villain’s threat” in Vol 1 and subsequently as comic relief through making fun of Quill and Mantis in Vol 2. I don't get how…