I will never understand what people’s problem is with a movie pitched firmly at five year olds doing well at the box office. Having sat through a great many movies meant for that age range, the Mario movie was basically Citizen Kane for kindergarteners.

You get that you’re what he bought though, right? The user base and it’s data are the only things that give it any value, and reducing that directly impacts his bottom line.  There's no virtue in "we were here first" except the virtue of current market value.

That's because the people you're talking about only care about Star Wars (I'm not sure anybody should care very much about Star Wars) as a collection of shibboleths they use to demonstrate who's in the club and who isn't and establish a pecking order between them. 

You can’t keep a good scot (via Vancouver) down!

Star Trek is literally known for plot armor for main characters. The Red Shirt stereotype is specific to the show. 

I dunno, the first 3 or 4 Dark Tower books are essentially fantasy adventures with gunplay.  You don’t really get into horror elements (which I think are Flanagan’s wheelhouse) until after Wizard and Glass, when King really leaned into corralling all of his works into Roland’s world. 

Anthropomorphic vehicles are pretty common kiddie show fodder (they’re extremely toyetic!). After some clicking around, apparently Ethan Hawke plays Batman? Now I’m really confused about who the stunt casting on this show is for. Certainly nobody under the age of 30. 

I don’t know what Batwheels is, but great galloping ghouls, that sounds awful

A: a strike is a political action that is dependent on the solidarity of the striking workers (and not that long ago was indistinguishable from small scale wars, right down to military involvement). Undermining that solidarity by being a dipshit in public is the fastest way to break it.

The latter

Literally none of them have stuck the landing (except maybe Miss Marvel, which I haven’t seen, and maybe Loki). Some have started out with an interesting premise or cool idea, but they’ve all fallen into the silly bullshit She Hulk lampshaded but didn’t actually fix. The only difference with this show is that it’s…

Negotiations will probably ave to resume before you’ll get any nitty gritty on details, but the broad strokes of what SAG AFTRA want are widely reported: to get paid on time, to increase pay, to address income shortfall now that residuals are not a thing on streaming, and some means to protect humans from AI…

I didn’t realize he was writing the scripts, directing the show, AND playing all the roles! A true triple threat

I’m still hoping he turns out to be a Skrull, which would be some silly bullshit ending, but at least it would address this one plot point that’s been bugging me since the beginning of the show. Gravik also made a big deal about new Skrullos being radioactive as well.

The recaps are the best part of the show, as a kind of Lovecraftian epistolary about a narrator descending into madness

Top Quarter of D+ MCU shows is an amazing feat of damning with faint praise

Marginalized, exploited people exist in every industry, including acting.  Labor is labor.

I'm also pretty sure $250/month in restitution isn't going to put much of a dent in that $452 million 

Thanks for explaining how I should feel about characters from shows I never watched and never will

I skipped both of these, though I had some peripheral awareness of who Ahsoka was before Mando season 2; the Maul reveal was genuinely intriguing, the Ahoska stuff less so. The spear episode was one of the highlights of that season.