Actually what I meant about Kubrick was that he acted a jerk to get actors to do what he wanted. From what I understand (Not like I knew the guy or anything) if he wanted actors to act like they were being bullied he was a bully to them. Whedon is more like Hitchcock - just a ass through and through towards everyone,…

Is it just me or is it weird that comic book characters are always made to seem miserable and like jerks in order to make them seem “Mature”? 

Whedon has had these accusations swirling around him for awhile now. We need to start actually listening to these people.

I’ll also mention... Doing Malcolm in the Middle gives the show a chance to do a subtext that Family Matters or something wouldn’t.

I would have thought Family Matters would have been a good template for Wandavision. It was basically a comic book in itself anyway with Urkel and everything. But I can see why they’d skip it, more because the show has only a certain number of episodes to play with and the 2000's offer more fertile ground for them...…

I’d be okay with a multiverse. What bugs me is every time they decide to flip on it the characters I was following tend to lose all their history and get resets.

This is coming from a DC fanboy... I’ve basically given up on them at this point. The shows on HBOMax are good but the comics are just a mess IMHO. They had a show period where I perked up and said “This might be good” when they did rebirth but... Nope, they couldn’t leave well enough alone.

Well, it’s not like 80's shows were averse to “Convenient” plot points. The 80's were an era where a character could show up in the first 60 seconds of an episode, be introduced as the bestest friend ever of the main characters and then die within the next 3 minutes to underscore a “Very special episode” (Why yes,…

In a decade Burton will suddenly start making really good movies again rather than just goth remakes of Disney stuff.

It’s more because they could dry Depp out for long enough to do the ad, I suspect.

I honestly did not know that about azaleas... Live and learn!

What fascinates me... Who grows plants in a suburban neighborhood that can kill a puppy if they are eaten? Seems Agnes has some really interesting gardening habits dontcha think?

As a question... If SWORD knew Wanda had taken Visions corpse then when Monica was sent to Westview there was an obvious reason to warn her that they didn’t take. I’m sure the FBI told SWORD “Hey there is a town here we can’t enter and nobody seems to remember” and if that pops up right after Wanda takes the Vision…

I quite enjoyed his second season. It was pretty good. His first one... yeah, that was bad.

What strikes me as odd is that in Episode 4 we saw what was happening on the outside or Westview. That’s great, except it occurs to me we didn’t really see what the major booms were in episode 2. The only things I can think of were that they come from the drone and the person in the hazmat suit... but then that still…

It’s okay to play around with a mystery for the extent of a season of 8 or 9 episodes. But I’d just argue it couldn’t be sustained for longer than that in the MCU and can’t end with any questions.

Truth is... I want a clear cut answer. Ambiguous answers can be fun - heck. I liked Twin Peaks as much as the next person. But the MCU is not made on Lynchian standards. It needs a pretty clear cut explanation to everything (Even if it does boil down to “A wizard/demon did it”). Either one is okay. But going ambiguous…

I wonder if maybe we will see a lot more stuff like this - enjoyable boilerplate genre movies that work as background noise for a home audience in the wake of covid basically destroying theaters. I actually want to see this movie, not because I am a fan of the genre or even the actors (Denzel has led me wrong too many…

Yeah... he doesn’t really have anyone running around complaining about him. Never has. I feel for him - age get’s us all and his surgeries were maybe not life threatening but still bad enough to put him out of action for the immediate future. Best wishes to him.

Tudyk is one of those actors that still needs his defining role in the mainstream. I mean... Firefly, Tucker and Dale, Doom Patrol... Heck The Tick even have all be great. But none really hit the big time in the mainstream yet.