I almost called Deadpool a corrective when I wrote the comment initially, but thought better of it. This is the third of these movies, and they haven’t really degassed any of the mainline franchises yet

More pastiche than parody, I guess, though you can't do parody right either without a deep abiding affection for the subject matter.

Quod erat Deadpool, baby

I feel like the endless loop of “this time Everything Changes For Real For Serious” is what produced Deadpool in the first place; maybe he's just a natural outgrowth of comics (and associated media).

I do enjoy how the Deadpool movies are little love letters to how gloriously stupid these franchises are and the exact amount of seriousness with which they should be taken 

I would expect no less from a film franchise where the lead shot himself dead before he could make Green Lantern.

Except of course the doctor is still working the following day; SAG member maybe isn’t. It's a precarious existence, and the job of their union to make it less precarious/improve working conditions in whatever way their members want.

It was however, darkly funny that they chose a Star Wars listicle to roll it out on: Star Wars fans are well-known for their relaxed approach to the franchise and canon timelines.

It’s super weird that there’s another push to adapt Narnia; most of the books aren’t very good, you’d have to strip all the allegorical stuff out for wide consumption, and most importantly, they haven’t been popular kids’ books in 30 years or more. If Disney couldn’t make a go of it 15 years ago, I don’t know why…

“True" Star Wars fans are impossible to please children who hate the franchise because they're not 8 anymore and don't realise they'll never get that back. Trying to please the least important demographic who, historically, can't be pleased, is a loser's game anyway.

The Doctor Who vibes in the first episode were so strong, it was as if someone at the BBC decided to spend a (slightly larger) amount of cash

Is it even B5 if you don’t have to make allowances for extremely limited budgets?

Linda, thank you for this thoughtful and thorough review; some of the best writing on the site lately. 

Your friend is either not very good at analogies or misunderstands what most of these people are buying. I can photograph your Porsche and drive off in the photographed replica (because the right clicked copy has the exact same functionality as the copy he owns). Moreover unless there’s an assignation of IP rights in…

I <3 M.O.D.O.K. in any context, but I feel like this gives Doom short shrift. As the Ur-Supervillain, Doom works in literally any context, including comedy (see the LEGO Marvel Superheroes game).

She ALSO we’re about to die in a nuclear holocaust any day now and that NBC was going to spirit her away to a black site for nefarious reasons and that she’d been blackballed by all the major news outlets for being TOO CLOSE to the truth.

Congratulations on independently discovering the exact same argument deployed against minorities and other poor folks by the people you’re decrying.

Don’t get loaded. Don’t die. You’re not worthless. Maybe you’ll find something to live for tomorrow.

As I understand it, the various tribes showed up because, essentially, they wanted to be Romans, or at least trade military service for land, and the Romans were generally happy to pick up a bunch of extra bodies for the endless civil wars that wrecked the empire.

I guess you’ve never actually been to io9?