Yeah, I think Marvel had a 20-year jump on DC with this trick then, but I have to admit that Morrison’s version of it, where they penetrate Darkseid’s “impenetrable shield” via the Atom riding a photon thru it when GA’s flash arrow hits the shield and goes off, was pretty clever.

I think the Laura-Clint relationship is fantastic.

But Kate would be born in 1999/2000 so she is very much Gen Z. Natasha was a Millennial. 

He drove an hour and a half out of his way to shoot people he considered “looters/rioters” how the fuck is that not vigilantism? You know what don’t answer that. Just go fuck yourself fascist 

“Her large collection of awards is telling us she’s amazing, but the show isn’t showing us that she is.”

To mitigate that thought: Clint is teaching Kate not to act that way.

To my surprise, I really like it so far.

I don’t know if it’s a detail that was told before or if I just noticed it but I liked the touch:

Bumblebeehad no business being as good as it was, and that was owed mainly to her performance. And some G1 cameos

I’m quite enjoying this. The dialogue bounces along, Steinfeld is a treat as Kate (just the right combo of snark and smart to make her immensely likeable and not “Oh god, not another Millennial I have to add to my Death List”) and Renner is good at the ageing hero just looking to get home to his kids and not have to…

Man it’s subtle but I wish they wrote Clint like this previously. They did the generic quip machine who is kind of a normie but here Renner’s leaned into him being such a fucking constant sadsack and it’s great. It’s a different version of sadsack than in the stories they are pulling from but it works so well for me.…

Who would have thought that the most uncinematic Avenger would have the most cinematic looking D+ show. The entire first episode felt like being in Manhattan at Christmas time as opposed to a hallmark channel movie that has a couple of areal shots of  the Empire State building cut into a Vancouver street set.

You could tell she was going to be a star when she was a kid in True Grit.

Also, Eddie Brock is a weird and depressive sad sack, while his antagonists in this movie are a serial killer and his obsessive girlfriend. I wouldn’t say any of the characters are happy at the beginning of the movie, and by the end they’re all just less unhappy. It’s still fun, but it’s at least as dark and brooding…

Don’t be an ass. You know he just meant “bright colors”.

The most recent MCU release, Shang-Chi, was the opposite of dark and brooding. It was fights, technicolour fun and enormous dragons.

I liked the depiction of Sandman, and Thomas Hayden-Church’s performance especially, but I didn’t like retconning him into being an accomplice in Ben’s murder.

Still never understood why Raimi agreed to include Venom — a character he clearly had no interest in. I understand he was getting heavy pressure from the studio, but he had just delivered them back to back blockbuster home runs. I find it hard to believe they would have fired him after that.

“Rob Liefeld physicality”

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