Snoke did exactly what Snoke was supposed to do- teach us more about Kylo.

Your comments are reliably thoughtful, but I’m liking this one specifically because it’s the only other mention of The Belgariad and Mallorian I’ve ever seen in the wild.

I can honestly say I’m surprised how many people really wanted to hear about Snoke or where he came from.

Phrasing it that way makes it seem like the movie behaved as a didactic scold. It completely answered the questions, and did so through the same adventure storytelling the movies have always done. Some folks may have not liked the answers, but that’s more a product of preconceived ideas than any failure of the movie.

It shouldn’t have been an open world game. All the effort to write Max identically to the movies where he disdains and avoids human relationships until necessary was at odds with him being the hub character that brought every disparate faction of the apocalypse together. Besides, as I read elsewhere, the constraints…

I enjoyed Burial at Sea, both structurally and how it played around with the themes of Infinite, but I can see how mechanically, story wise, or both, folks wouldn’t like it. I don’t think the ending was necessary for the resolution of Elizabeth’s character.

Putting Joker on a worst of list so a bunch of Joker fans get upset is totally something Joker would do.

Yeah, I found the ending to be some of the most deft and affecting storytelling I’ve experienced in a video game.

Boy, I’m real curious about this. Infinite was very flawed, but whether it was just how strongly the aesthetic appealed to me, I still feel it’s successes were stronger than it’s failures.

I was left a little cold by Far From Home, with the exception of Gyllenhaal’s always welcome batshittery and the elaborate phantasmagoria. I think in part it’s because I like my Spider-Man as a scrappy underdog and not a scion to the largest techno-futurist empire in the world. Which is in itself, just a matter of…

Yeah, because guess which one pays for which.

I don’t know when production began on this, but I feel that can’t be entirely coincidental.

Season three of Killing Eve looks intense.

Superman and Batman both being codified as essentially the Ur-superheroes from which all superheroes sprung (incorrect as that is) also means they’re going to be the most iconic go-to characters to work from.

Last week’s episode is a high water mark for superhero mythos to me, and anything else this show does or doesn’t do, won’t effect what an astonishing hour of television it was.

If the show goes off the rails, it starts with this episode. I still very much enjoyed it, but I can’t tell if it’s due to the audacity or the quality.

Superman is the easiest target to parody, both due to his long-lived ubiquity and his easy to subvert moral code, but it also demonstrates a big problem with how DC understands it’s characters. Marvel has the flawed, sometimes street-level take on superheroes. DC has the archetypes -the modern myth version of…

Yeah, that was a real nice touch for sure.

By all rights, the show should be, at best, fine. The fact that it’s both adventurous, and clever is astonishing to me.

The white makeup around the eyes is so perfect because it creates a photo negative of the domino mask that’s defined superhero costumes almost since their inception. Costumes within costumes.