It was good fun, but the whole climax did really just discard all the show’s uniqueness for a bog standard super duel. Ah well. It would have been fun if it incorporated the tv timelines more. If they fought throughout the different eras, in black and white and color. Maybe if Wanda had to place a rune in each era of…

I’m definitely emotionally invested in her and Vision in a way I never was with the movies, that’s for certain.

My souring on Abrams is only about half my enthusiasm for Coates, so this is a net positive for me.

Yeah, Vision’s line about grief being the persistence of love was actually really lovely.

I never thought this series was going to culminate in some impenetrable, freaky head trip or anything, but the reams of reductionist exposition were definitely less than the sum of its parts.

On The Media is the best thing NPR currently has going for it, and it should be the gold standard against which all other news emulates. To bad All Things Considered is complete both sides-ism dross.

“Are you still 13 years old?”

Between the Carano news and this, there’s a real Goofus and Gallant vibe with Star Wars casting news tonight. 

“People who are different from me are dumb and their mental health is a joke to me.”

“People who are different from me are dumb and their mental health is a joke to me.”

It’s possible! Though Marvel did spend 72 billion dollars for the rights, and I’m assuming it’s not just to clear the rights for a one-off Quicksilver appearance.

Given how elaborate and involved fan service has become in modern nerddom, along with Marvel’s propensity to use their stories as dominoes just to knock down the next one ad infinitum, it’s hard to not be a little suspicious of creative moves like the reveal at the end of the show.

Mike Mignola did work on the pre-production design as well, which you can see in some of the final designs and scene blocking.

While I remember the Mako handling poorly, I think it was in an absurd enough way that I found it more of a bizarre nuisance than a real problem. My issue was the nearly invisible reticule for the cannon. When I first got the game, I still had a crt television and the game was not at all designed with a smaller, lower…

I love the Last Jedi, and I couldn’t even get mad at Rise of Skywalker if it had been a halfway well-executed movie, I would have been furious at how aggressive it was in erasing TLJ. But it was just shuch a flop sweat-drenched, falling-down-the-stairs-with-a-stack-of-pies debacle of film making, I could only gawp.

I agree that plays a part, but given that all nerd properties struggle with such a percentage of their fandoms being nutball reactionaries, it’s a more holistic problem.

With all of nerdom in a non-stop race to be the worst, Star Wars fans show a real tenacity for pulling ahead in the lead.

That’s a very punk thing of them to do.

I agree Belafonte’s episode should be included and that the final piece is the best the show ever did. This list, not wrongly, emphasizes the bedlam and insanity that made the Muppets so great. But it neglects those moments where the show used the medium to create something ethereal and unearthly. Qualities that…

Here’s an AV Club illustrated essay on the subject from a few years ago that I always enjoyed: