‘ Thirty episodes is not enough for a really good show’ — Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace would beg to differ.

And for an example from the Netflix stable, so would Devilman Crybaby.

‘Did it just start raining people everywhere?’

‘You can only hope they grow out of it some decade.’ — There still exist smartasses who insist you can kill a Green Lantern with a pencil and that they should have had eagles drop the ring into Mount Doom.

This shit never dies. 

“Welcome to Vormir, Steven, son of—”
[pause]
*both at once* “YOU AGAIN?!”

Gonna be honest - even knowing there were others after it, I’m taking his Into the Spider-Verse cameo as Stan’s curtain call.

It just feels like the perfect emotional note for him to go out on - sweet, sincere, and ever-so-slightly sarcastic.

Plus that end card dedication...Goddamn...

Which is part of why I didn’t get why suddenly NOW people were outraged that a three-hour blockbuster didn’t have an intermission.

You let Peter Jackson take you down that road seven Goddamn times over the past fifteen years. Suddenly NOW you can’t pace yourself?

Friday evening showing here.
The Wakandans got applause. Spider-Man got applause. There was a drop-off in said applause when the Guardians showed up (well a drop-off plus my girlfriend booing when Star Lord showed up.
Sidenote - all the dunking he got this movie made up for his beefing it last time.)

He could have turned those off, but he was sort of in globe-trotting Paul Kersey mode at that point, and hey - he needed the coverage for some of the places he was going all kill-crazy, so might as well leave it running, eh?

This has just surpassed the Tethers for me as my sure bet ‘I’ll be seeing this in October’ costume.

Still thinking we’ll see a fair amount of Tethers though.

“...this is why I’m hanging it up after this one.”

I dunno about good.
Enjoyable, yeah. But it’s also kind of a mess (in its defense, with a plot like this, it’d almost have to be, but the fact is...still a mess.)

Now I’m wondering about cases like people who were operating a vehicle that got dusted. They come back, find out it crashed and killed a whole lot of people who won’t be coming back now, and that’s gonna be a load on some consciences.

Fucking this.

For as much as it’s been portrayed as one-sided ‘Marvel trumps DC everytime’, I still remember the Marvel fans posting those memes of ‘DC won’t make a WW movie, while here’s Marvel making a movie with a talking raccoon and tree’

There’s things I like in both camps, but seriously, that was kind of a low key…

‘Make the film about what it means to be a hero’ — As interesting as that would be, I’m not sure it’s the kind of story Snyder could really do well. What he’s shown in movies and interviews suggests a sort of skepticism that heroes even exist a lot of the time (part of me also dings Goyer here, though I’d argue the…

All these years later and I still find the decision to ship those two odd.
The bulk of their prior screentime is varying degrees of Banner warning/threatening about what he’s capable of and then Hulking out and trying to kill her.
Now, this isn’t to say a bridge is burned on that alone, but to go right from that to…

The Devil’s Advocate comes to mind for me.

“LOSE? AH DON’T LOSE! AH WIN! I AM A LAWYER! THAT’S MAH JOB! THAT’S WHAT AH DO!”

The MCU in general has a weird two-step of letting Tony Stark fuck up but then letting him off for it.
Civil War had another big example of this - the first time Peter spoke up at the airport, Steve had a prime opportunity for a “Really, Tony? You’re going to let a kid get involved in this?” moment of moral high…

I will continue to argue that, as his first appearance beyond the Avengers tease, GotG really kind of fucked Thanos over as a character.

We have a whole bunch of people talking about how fearsome powerful he is and how to cross him as death sentence...
Then, to paraphrase Tommy Wiseau, EVERYBODY BETRAY HIM.

For the first…

To be fair, the Empire went for three movies (six if we count Revenge of the Sith and the sidestories) as little more than ‘Jackbooted space Nazis’

Having nebulous antagonists for Star Wars isn’t exactly new ground.

To be a bit fair to Disney, even Lucas was free-wheeling it from movie to movie.

I know in later years, and as the Joseph Campbell analogies ramped up, he kept leaning harder on the story that he had it all laid out from the beginning, but any deep dive into the production history on the OT sort of proves that’s just…