“No, it’s because only a coward uses his platform to dish out personal attacks, then runs the fuck away when someone gets the least bit personal with him. Cowardice is just one of the many attributes of Donald Trump that contributes to him being an overall pos.”

And this was a little too Fringe-like. While I liked Fringe a lot, the beginning of Fringe might be viewed poorly by 2021 standards. Not sure why the writing of shows like these never really evolves past a certain point. Though network limitations have a lot to do with such creative stagnation.

This was...pretty middling. The best part of it for me was the score, though that seemed a little too similar to Westworld’s score.

And neither did she.

And now we know if it’s realistic to expect people to stay home if ordered to by their government for their own safety and the safety of others, lol...ugh

I agree, the show certainly isn’t as funny as it used to be (for obvious reasons), but that doesn’t make him any less wrong...

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the ones no one ever wants to even attempt. It’s rather quite telling.

These “fans” are vicious.

There are so many not-as-intelligent-as-they-think-they-are doods out there trying to act insufferably intelligent, using the dEvIl’s AdVOcAte playbook of bad faith arguments and disingenuous language - iM jUsT aSkiNg QuEStIoNs bs. They’re quite frankly pathetic garbage.

I saw this a long time ago before it began making top 10 best of lists, where it routinely ranks in the top 5....and I just thought it was ok.

In regards to Thor: The Darkworld, that was certainly a case of overuse. Anything getting overused can and will end up tiresome or grating, but that’s the fault of the writing (the whole movie is regarded poorly in comparison to the first and most recent one). I watched the first Thor a few weeks ago, and Darcy was…

Nah, Darcy’s great. You need comic relief to cut through all that stuffy seriousness. She and Jimmy played off each other nicely.

Maybe thoughtless would be better to say than “selfish”. Thoughtless as to the wide range of implications and subsequent problems brought onto the universe and the lives of everyone in it. Certainly not selfish for wanting to save them all.

It feels slow because it’s not exactly interesting. Like, I grew up watching some of these shows being rerun, but like, the nostalgia factor isn’t enough for me like it is for a majority of the commenters. To be honest, I don’t like that sort of stuff as old sitcoms and their cultural aesthetics and humor grate on me.

For me, the Mandalorian was predictable and sometimes boring. Perhaps because it was extremely formulaic and very by the numbers, as I like Westerns. There isn’t necessarily a problem with that, formulaic can be very entertaining and fun. Lots of good shows are formulaic.

A show shouldn’t need the comics to fall back on and flesh it out. I used to read a lot of comics, but Vision and the Scarlet Witch weren’t really among the ones I followed. Having said that, it shouldn’t require the viewer to have any of that knowledge to make the show interesting.

Absolutely. The meager clues aren’t enough if the dialogue is just meaningless and uninteresting throwbacks to different eras of tv. I vaguely got a kick out of Wanda holding a bowl of fruit to “disguise” her pregnancy, but otherwise, I was left fairly uninterested.

All these “meta references”, or rather hommages to shows decades past feel a little too Quinton Tarantino-y. Like how Tarantino likes to show off he can replicate past styles and genres, but lacking in a bit of (or more) substance which adds to the success (Jackie Brown), or failure (Death Proof), of each attempt.

This site is trash now. I wrote out a long comment when the review came out, and it was left Pending. I don’t know why I even bother to comment anymore, which I rarely do these days.