I liked all the THOR movies to varying degrees, but I want Thor AS Thor on Earth (not depowered), fighting dudes like The Absorbing Man. For me, the contrast of Thor with mundane Midgard is more intersting than Thor on Asgard or in space. To wit:

Nothing against Chadwick Boseman, but Chiwetal Ejiofor was my preferred Black Panther for a long time. I suppose he aged out of the role, though - at least if you’re introducing T’Challa as newly-crowned.

An onscreen Batman that can convincingly move like his comics counterpart. The “saving Martha” fight is quite nice.

That’s. . . about all I have.

Little to do with the article, but seeing Chris Pine’s name in the same paragraph as THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN makes me think how much better he’d be as Steve Austin than Mark Wahlberg. Nothing against Marky Mark, who is a decent actor and will probably handle the “I’m a FREAK!” angst fine. But I don’t think Austin’s…

“Retcon” is short for “retroactive continuity.” Adding detail after the fact certainly qualifies.

And assuming you mean the removal of Spidey and Mary Jane’s marriage, that’s not a retcon. That’s history being changed by magic within the story. Retcons are the work of the authors, not characters in the narrative.

Yeah, one line in the scene on the roof with Lois would have helped. “It was only supposed to be a three-month trip. It took five years because the star-drive failed yadda yadda. . .”

I liked the scene well enough in the theatre, but I ruined it for myself by turning on the subtitles at home.

I don’t know about you, but I could never understand what Routh was saying as he tried to fight back and is dragged away:

I never got implied infidelity. If Jason was, say, a year old when Lois starts dating Richard and they’re engaged four years later, I don’t question that Jason calls him “Daddy.” He was always “Daddy.”

The real question is, does Lois know Superman is Jason’s father before the piano-crushing incident? I’d assume so.…

Maybe she’s the lawyer Saul recommends to Francesca. . .

Plus we haven’t seen much of Mike being Saul’s P.I. The relationship implied between them in BB - even if Mike ultimately answered to a bigger, badder employer - doesn’t line up with what we’ve seen (so far) in SAUL.

that conversation between William and Beth, which takes place during the events of the first season episode “Jack Pearson’s Son.”

”Now you tell me!”

I really like him in the Superman-Flash post-credit scene in JUSTICE LEAGUE. Just the right amount of wink.

The whole “WRONG!” exchange is pretty good, but, yeah, not much else.

AND Snyder adds a moment of Silk Spectre seeming to be “into it” - as if he needed to lay the groundwork for the later liason that produced Laurie. Whereas the book made it very clear that it had been a moment of uncharacteristic tenderness from The Comedian that made Sally a willing partner, not some kink on her part.

I agree (the names more confusion than looks), but I tended to confuse Bill Pullman with Jeff Daniels.

The Gruenwald Cap stuff came after long stretches of Jim Rhodes as Iron Man and John Stewart as Green Lantern in the mid-1980s. I can’t think offhand of prior long-term replacement-and-returns.

I did. . . but then it occurred to me Randall would probably need to live in the area to unseat the councilman. I wouldn’t put it past the show to have Randall want to relocate the family for just that reason. . . but it seems unlikely.

Cosigned. Also, in POLICE SQUAD, even though the audience is laughing at Frank Drebin, in *his* world, he’s the admired epitome of skilled crimebuster a la Adam West’s Batman. In the NAKED GUN films, Frank is a dummy who annoys his bosses and occasionally bumbles into solving the crime - more of a Clouseau figure.