KatWay

I disagree, I think she has the same comfortable friendly chemistry with Nikolai that she has with Mal. If anything, the actors sold me on the intense connection between Mal and Alina so I don't see her swerving to Nikolai 100%. Plus I know he apparently sucks in the books but show!Mal is a pretty great boyfriend, he's endlessly supportive of Alina. Fake an engagement with a future king? Makes sense, I trust you. Also he's my new bestie! I need to die for you to fulfil your destiny? Cool, let's do it. Hell, let me encourage the other guy to bring you happiness after I'm gone! It's like they really wanted to stick it to the people insisting that the Darkling was the better love interest for Alina based on Ben Barnes being hot and people loving themselves a bad boy lol. Which involved people coming up with all kinds of flaws of "co-dependent", "possessive" Mal while conveniently ignoring the Darkling's whole...villain-thing.

I'll be honest, and I'm probably in the minority here, but I didn't like it much. There were some good parts and the ending felt satisfying overall but I thought it dragged on a lot and was both overly grim and cheesy at times. Like Rocket's furry friends, everything about that was just so over the top. It was obvious they would die and lo and behold, they did, since the element of surprise was completely missing I just felt like the director was yelling CRY PEOPLE ARE YOU CRYING YET in the background. Idk, had it been a bit more subtle/toned down, it would have been more effective in my opinion. In comparison, Peter & Gamora's bittersweet ending did hit the right notes IMO, it was a lot more understated. I also thought the bad dog bit was unfunny and they just kept repeating it over and over. Generally thought some of the jokes were really bad this time, though some did land and were funny. Just kind of a meh experience overall.

I've never played D&D and I thought the movie was hilarious. Don't remember the last time I laughed so much in the cinema. It was predictable in a good way, it just felt so comfortable watching.

for real, reminded me of Buck's S4 storyline of not finding anyone to date and angsting about ending up alone. I was like, dude, a handsome, nice firefighter with a cool apartment, looking to settle down and get serious...you'd be the king of tinder with that bio. and echoing everyone else on the annoyance that being single is constantly presented as a huge drama on the show and you need a partner to be happy or you'll die depressed and alone.

anything involving time travel always requires a loooot of suspension of disbelief, I don't think we need to come up with an explanation. He can't change the timeline because the screenwriters said so lol. He could very likely come up with a scenario that wouldn't miraculously end with Spock dead or the galaxy at stake and save himself but that would cheapen the stakes of his entire arc so "the universe" decrees it can't be done. I mean look at Voyager etc and how often they changed the timeline just cause they were personally unhappy with some stuff. There's no real rhyme or reason to the laws of this.

My theory is they're not having Ryan Guzman do anything that requires emotionalism or nuance because the guy can't act to save his life. Man but he was bad in even those "do more" and "trying very hard to look like he's tearing up" scenes. They're probably trying to minimise the Buck/Eddie interactions in hopes it'll deter the shippers. The coma dream was such a letdown. There's a bazillion interesting things you could do with a scenario like that and they did it in the blandest, least inspired way possible. Feel bad for Oliver Stark cause he tried and I saw some online interview where he seemed excited about getting a storyline that wasn't just being the butt of a joke again but alas, this was not a great showcase for him.

like other users said, everyone's campaiging. Some more than others, but if you're nominated, you're probably campaigning one way or the other. It's not just yourself you're promoting, it's also the film, so studios will often push for it too, films make more money after they're awarded. the trick is to seem eager but not too eager, and what works for one person might not work for another, because a lot depends on their pre-existing image etc. A Frances McDormand campaigns completely differently than a Jamie Lee Curtis. I'm sure there's entire PR teams behind the scenes figuring out the best strategies and it's STILL a crapshoot - media narratives (especially in the age of social media) can take on a life of their own, personal business often mixes into it. It's all subjective after all. and sorry but suggesting that everyone who doesn't win should leave just makes me imagine an almost empty room by the end of the show lol, that's a funny image. A lone clap by the janitor for the winning film. Kinda goes against the whole justification for this award show circuits, to celebrate film as an art form - no, fuck films, celebrate ME or I'm outta here! lol

A nominee getting up and leaving over losing award would be rightfully shamed, that's not seriously the standard you're setting...Angela Bassett is a great actress but winning for a Marvel film is a stretch for anyone. Her being nominated was more about her long-standing reputation as a good actress and the Chadwick connection than the actual role IMO. The Academy snobs usually don't even spare comic book films a passing glance outside technical categories, unless they've got the whole "dark and gritty" marketing going on. also campaigning worked for JLC and not for Austin Butler because she did it well - I'd argue her campaigning benefitted the entire film - she managed to come across quite well, charming and light-hearted, aside from the nepotism remarks. Austin's campaigning seemed extremely self-serious with the accent hoopla etc, it kind of became a bit, which never helps when you want to win these awards. Colin Farrell should have won tbh.

I loved their mentor/fatherly relationship they had going for most of it but I haaaaaated the romantic subtext. First of all, pairing up a middle-aged or weird-looking guy with a sexy girl is hardly groundbreaking for scifi, in fact it's pretty much the norm, see also Neelix and Kes, while you practically never see it the other way around, and second, it was unnecessary to have the entire male crew lusting after Seven like the viewers needed to be told she was there to be the space babe. Surely at least that relationship could have stayed entirely platonic. But no.

so one of the only things I gave the writers credit for (pairing Maddie with Chimney was unexpected but worked great - people were already rooting for him to find love, their dynamic was sweet) came from the actress? maybe they should give more input.

I don't think trying to minimise the risk of your child dying young after long term suffering is being a "eugenics freak". There's a reason sperm banks are really strict about medical history. That said yeah childhood leukemia is mostly not considered a hereditary thing (though it can be) but it would normally come up in a discussion. I'm probably overthinking this dumb soap opera plotline bc I'm annoyed I have to sit through yet another crappy iteration of it. how about this, for maximum soap points: he does donate, they have the kid, the couple dies in a terrible disaster, suddenly Buck gets the kid! On this show, anything is possible.

informal or not, don't prospective parents normally ask for medical history? At least they did in all the other shows that had this storyline lol. But it's not like anything's gonna come of it tbh, it's just another filler plot for Buck it seems.

I don't know if the show even remembers the whole will thing (mind you I still don't get how you can list someone without their knowing). But then I don't know if the show remembers Buck's cancer-stricked brother either, if they're going the sperm donor route...pretty sure that would disqualify him? I was actually thinking of TBBT lol but yeah, it's such a common storyline it pops up almost everywhere. The writers are really out of ideas it feels.

threesome would be more interesting lol but this show will probably do the family-friendly trope and go for the sperm donor storyline (and Buck'll reject it). I swear I just saw a sperm donor storyline in another show but forgot which one.

her Kai Winn was a great character, one of the ones I always point out when I talk about how nuanced DS9 is. She's so great because she's not a cartoon style I'll kill you all type villain, she can almost seem reasonable at times, and she's very "normal" in a way, not a crazy psychopath - just a petty, vindictive person, one we might know in real life, but who comes into power and wreaks havoc not because that's her deliberate intention but because she's just weak and constantly prioritises the wrong things. She's almost scarier than others because she seems like she could be reasonable, sometimes she even is, but she's just not a good person on a fundamental level. Louise Fletcher did an amazing job as her, one of the best actors on the show I would argue. RIP.