I find it weird that in Civil War they also killed a bunch of people yet I didn't have nearly as much of an issue with it.

Well presumably/hopefully only one mother named Martha will get screentime this time out?

All I've seen is gifs of mysterious provenance so I assumed that fans were mostly excited about Grillo joke-coquettishly offering to blow Chris Evans.

I figured Evie must have a bot already since she's so adamant about that tech working and that anecdote about how she used to live in a bubble.

That would have been my guess too, it's not like they'd be putting in an untethered fake eye.

Is Spring Awakening inherently pretentious or are you referring to it that staging with deaf and hearing cast members doubling up on some roles?

Who Lives Who Dies… doesn't even make my top five either but the part that crushes me the most is "I stop wasting time on tears, I live another 50 years— it's not enough."

It seems like her murdering a bunch of the subjects and cutting that dude's tail off would have made her a pretty big concern. Did they establish that Helena tries to make herself obscure or is that from the circumstantial fact that most people she's encountered end up dead?

Since Kendall's dead I'm curious who you're actually thinking of. There are a couple of characters off the table for reasons I generally can't remember but it seemed like they went out of their way in the first episode to establish "yes, so we can still get these secondary characters/actors to turn up" and I'm curious…

It seems disappointing that sounds like her role in the film is smaller than the fake infomercial they made with her selling the Xavier Institute.

I'm not sure it's so much fan culture, I know a lot of other Asian people pissed about the film who didn't really care until that story about using CG to make white people look Asian (as opposed to something like Edge of Tomorrow which quietly replaced the Japanese teenage lead with a 50 year old Tom Cruise from the…

Wait, that's somehow even worse, that the characters are nominally conscious of what's going on and it still doesn't make the film. (I still planned on watching that edit someday though?)

I was pretty convinced that he was going to come back in Vaughn's civil rights era movie since the whole premise of the character is that he can't die (he was even introduced surviving a horrible incident that killed his teammates)…. but then they ended up not making that movie at all.

Seconding the other comment, I think they decided if they weren't going to seriously tackle the issue it might be safer to side step it?

Yeah I thought the show does some interesting stuff like using essentially the same purple disco lighting for when the lead has his big fantastical romantic dance sequence, (maybe) his deeply religious fears of the family going to hell, and an over the top pastiche of what he imagines the school expects from him being…

The fact that Jubilee wasn't mentioned at all suggests she's not as big of a player as I would have hoped.

I was under the impression they even recast Maggie Chen from the photos in the pilot? I sort of don't remember what she actually looks like in the current season though.

yeah I was fairly convinced Ira was gonna be gay and maybe a teeny bit evil so it's kind of good to get hints he might not be either.

There's another poster of a mostly submerged rowboat that makes me wonder if they're secretly doing Riverdale as Afterlife with Archie?

I dunno if it's mostly a Whedon-adjacent trope but I'm so used to seeing characters in completed warehouses randomly getting impaled by rebar but still being fine a handful of episodes later.