Never saw it, but what was the issue with Crazy Rich Asians?

TBH the “white on white” thing is the only bit I found unpalatable.

I liked it more than I expected. The LARPer payoff was better than I expected, but I wish they’d leant into the parody of the CA/policeman encounter from the original Avengers film, and had an orc-costumed LARPer beaten up to sell it.

The one that puzzles me is the phrase “behind my back” - wouldn’t that be in front of you?

Least controversial list ever? I mean, you can argue (well, mildly quibble) about the order for ASM and ASM2, and the same for SM2 and SM:ITSV, but that’s about it...

“loves to have non-superpowered women of color murdered or brutally assaulted over and over or deify a character that committed multiple war crimes and and so on.”

My main takeaways:
1. Am I a terrible person for not remembering who Donya is?
2. The whole bomb thing is looking more and more inept on the part of the show-runners. Was there any suggestion that it served a practical purpose, or was unintended? iirc it was a straight forward terrorist act, in the literal sense.
3. My…

It’s a lot better on second viewing - you’re ready for the bumps, and the themes come through more strongly.

I didn’t hate The Regulators, but I think it was mainly because I read Desolation first (which I think is one of his best). In that context, it just seemed like a weird, sub-par, issue of Marvel’s “What If?”.

Yeah - ‘sexist’ seems a stretch. I guess you can’t really get offended by ‘lazy’. I’d have just left it at “2010 called...”, which is a perfectly suitable riposte, with a soupcon of irony.

Tommyknockers does not rule. I think it was the first King that disappointed me, and for that I’ll never forgive it, despite it inuring me to later betrayals.

As a wise, burned, businessman once said, “if you think safety’s expensive, try having an accident.”

My main gripe was that I didn’t buy Stormfront’s apparent fear of Homelander. Even if it was fake (and there was no indication that it was), it seemed way out of character.

This seems right. Superman isn’t supporting the government; he’s accepting its authority because he knows that’s what allows him to save the most lives.

Yeah, that was my experience. I didn’t know if it was me or the game, I kept feeling I was missing something, but was never sure whose fault it was.

Civ 3? Say it’s not so! (Civ 4 I could understand)

I’m assuming I’m not alone in saying “Buffy”? (and I’ll throw B5 in there as well). I can’t say I’ll never be able to watch either again, but they’ll both always feel like a nostalgic engagement with my past, rather than contact with the thing itself.

Not the dead (also guaranteed).

As they say, “buying a horse is cheap - it’s keeping it alive that’s expensive...”

Yeah. It was impossible to be worse off under this deal. I mean, yes, from Pontiac’s POV, they probably thought, “Shit, we should have thought of that!”, but it doesn’t look like they set out to be cheapskates - just not altruists (duh?)..