“Take offense at the customs of the backwards natives, display your physical dominance over them and take their stuff.” —
Except the image of the Kree over the course of the film tracks pretty hard with that.
Remember, this is the same movie that established Ronan’s role before palling up with Thanos was to carpet bomb…

The fanbase didn’t exactly do them favors with the running joke of ‘DC’s afraid to do a movie with a woman as a lead. Here’s an MCU film with a talking raccoon and a tree!’

Which was funny at the time, but again, hindsight did NOT do that any favors.

In a surprise play, they pull a Tropic Thunder, slap a gut and a bald cap on him, and now he’s a foreign executive playing off the chaos for profits, codenamed Nezu.

All these names dropped and not one mention of Tom Cruise?

Lettin’ me down, AV Club.
He even went and did it twice!

Personally, I’m looking at it less as ‘secret gay’ more as part of a larger all around high-end sexual insecurity of all sorts.
His recent shift from pick up artist to Bible thumper just throwing a few more coals into that furnace

To this end - let’s remember, one of their regular thought leaders, Roosh, is the same guy who was arguing too much fixation on women’s butts would turn men gay.

The people have spoken and the world isn’t ready for a chubby, pompous eunuch!

Sadly, this.

It’s easy for trolls to get pissed off at pop culture. It’s like getting a dog to bark in a kennel.

Getting them to give a shit about politics - now THAT needs an extra kick in the ass to get going.

Also, as this entire argument plays out, I keep remembering the last time the implication of foreign…

He might not be surprised, but he’d still be hurt by it. The man served in her father’s court and saw the madness firsthand. He was doing his best to try and steer her away from that fate by encouraging her to not hunger for the vengeance her brother did.
Even if he saw it coming, he’d still take it hard as an ‘I’ve…

While I see the case for this on its own, he also has a record that could go against him once Dany is in full-blown BURN THEM ALL mode.

Fact is, even if he’s loyal now, in that state she might still see it as “I remember how you betrayed me before.”

Granted, the idea that that distrust leads her to kill him even as he’s…

This article actually gave me a thought I hadn’t considered before - how much good grace does Arya really have as a rogue agent in the eyes of the Faceless Men.
Yeah, the operative known to audiences as Jaqen kind of gave her a pass for killing the Waif. But then for an encore, she went and exterminated an entire…

...no more drugs for that man!

If they do a version of Blue Velvet that declares “BABY WANTS TO FUUUUCK!” I might be persuaded to upgrade.

Just gonna remind - the first Empire suffered a pretty embarrassing defeat at the hands of a bunch of child sized aliens armed with stone-tipped arrows, spears, rocks, and logs.

This kind of shit has a precedent in SW.

I wasn’t talking about the rape scene. I’m not even sure HOW you got that was in reference to the rape scene given it was at the end of the list of references to Snyder’s ‘common man beats god’ scenes in his comic book movies.

The better part of that book’s relationship to cinema -
Another director previously sought it out as a passion project.
The director - Michael Cimino. When UA declined that offer, he went on to make Heaven’s Gate for them, a movie whose rise and fall are an unintentionally brilliant meta-punchline to the Rand idea that…

It’s one of two thematic elements he just HAS to fit into his comic adaptations, whether it’s there or not (the other, in keeping with his Rand fixation, being the ‘common’ man sticking it to the god-being. It’s at least already there in 300, but he plays for it in a big way in MoS and REALLY leans into it in BvS.
And…

This kind of tracks with the sense I’ve gotten of Snyder from interviews - he makes comic book movies, but regularly sees comic books as inherently beneath him. Something he is automatically smarter than.
Hence why all of his defenses of his depiction of Batman are ‘This is what’s real!’ and not ‘Hey, other versions…

About where I’m at, yeah.
I had no misconceptions that he was going to win the game, but given Dany’s vision and how much of his story is built around Melisandre’s mistaking him for the reborn Azor Ahai, it seems far more likely he will meet his end at the hands of the Others than he will at the hands of a character…

Re: ‘Goodbyeeeee’ - As much as the final scene is one Hell of a gut punch (and a well delivered one at that) I do also give this episode points for the fact that it doesn’t let everything before it be silly. We still get several fairly serious points peppered into the episode amid the absurdity that help humanize…