Cobalt Stargazer

All of this is interesting, but I would point out that no one can decide (or tell me, if they can decide) what a 'core comic book fan' is. I've said this before, but the source material is loaded with "agenda", and that was way before Disney acquired the rights to make these movies. Is the idea that we should respect the comics, but also remove anything that might smack of politics? Because that's not respecting the material, it's turning it into something it isn't and never was. I'm treading lightly so the mods don't get annoyed, but even you have said you're okay with them changing some things, so I'm not sure why it keeps coming back to the idea that changes are inherently bad and disrespectful.

Vanna White.

Except it's just winking, really. Supposedly Sonny is a coffee importer, but the show has never been explicit about what his illegal activities involve. Again supposedly, he doesn't run drugs or deal in prostitution, right? I know we've made jokes for a long time about him bringing in gummi bears, but the show has always tried to have it both ways - establish that Sonny and Jason are criminals, but without making them too dirty, if that makes sense.

Maybe, but at the same time I'm not a professional armorer, and even I know not to leave guns lying in the dirt and/or carry them around under my arms, much less pose with them so I can look like a badass. It's been said repeatedly, but Guitterez was supposed to be in charge of making sure the weapons were safe for use, regardless of what else she was doing on the set. Don't you have to have some kind of training or a qualification certificate to do that kind of work? I don't know enough about that part of the industry to be certain, but her father has been in the business for years.

Honestly, this is where they could take a page from Margot's version of Harley. Spoiler tagging for those who haven't seen The Suicide Squad I don't believe this is going to be that, though. I didn't see the first movie with Phoenix, but I know it's not supposed to be comedic, not even darkly so. More's the pity.

"I'm sorry about what's gonna happen to you."

A quick Google search tells me that traumatic brain injuries were known about and recorded since at least 1650 BC, that the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians wrote about head injuries and their aftereffects based on presentation and tractability. So yes, the condition has been around for quite some time and has been documented extensively. I don't believe, however, that it was commonly known that TBIs can occur during sporting events, at least not at the time Simpson was on trial, which I endured most of back in the day. Because @Spartan Girl is correct, Johnnie Cochran and O.J.'s other lawyers did their best to convince the jury that someone else did it, turning it into a non-existent conspiracy that ended in an acquittal. The only thing I can say is that Fred Goldman should be able to find some peace now, even if its years after the fact.

I am not your strongest soldier, Lord.

*dies*

I have a genuine question, because I don't know enough about the industry - why does GH have such a large cast? Even outside of wild cards like Easton and Howarth being given umpteen characters each, they do have a pretty deep bench when it comes to people who can or do have story. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the insistence on Carly/Sonny/Jason being the sun around which everything else revolves, and yet.

Except it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. Because Jason is no more a father to Jake than he is to Danny, and IMO Liz was not as clear-eyed about who Jason is at the time the boy was conceived. She turned to him because of bad writing she'd been hurt by Lucky, and like Sam she decided to go ahead and have the hitman's kid. Him being an absentee father isn't anyone's fault but his, since he could always choose to dial it back on cleaning up Carly's messes and he won't, but aren't Jake and Danny close enough in age that this outcome is totally predictable? I have no idea of how old the current crop of kids is supposed to be.

Yes? Since I'm not a comics person, I don't know enough about Silver Surfer to speak to his power set, but IMO casting is just as important, and for the most part the MCU has done very well in that area. As @benteen says, Garner has been consistently good in everything she's done, even if she's not hugely famous. If anything, casting a lesser-known actress might help with characterization, give her some leeway when it comes to bringing the character to life onscreen. The power set is the easy part, even if it's important; it's what behind the powers that makes the characters relatable.

Bonus points if she uses her Ruth Langmore accent.

Because I can't stand not to share this, Sister Michael is all of us.

Maybe? Because there are always questions about "Where is Whoever?" The remaining Avengers while Wanda was having her crackup. Bucky during the time Erik Killmonger was trying to usurp the throne of Wakanda. Ghost after the Snap, because Scott being stuck in the Quantum Realm is because he went there to help her and I don't believe it was made clear if she was also lost. Suspending disbelief also requires knowing that the missing characters aren't put into a box and set aside until it's time to utilize them again, that we should know they're doing stuff offscreen, including Kate, who must have been coming home from patrol or a stakeout since she had her bow with her and it must have been very late. I would even argue that Kamala's apparently self-appointed duties as recruiter means she's fresh off of meeting her hero in The Marvels, and despite being significantly younger than Kate she's being trusted to handle it by Fury, even if he's keeping tabs on developments. So I could see it the other way too.

Clearly not. In the book, the BG supply Irulan with contraceptives, which she puts in Chani's food without her knowing about it to prevent her from giving birth to Paul's heir. Given the culmination of that thread, I don't believe Villeneuve will do it if there's a third movie, but it's left hanging as to what will happen if Feyd's kid lives to adulthood. With him dead and unavailable to be "controlled", the BG are likely passing on his genetic tendency towards insanity and risking the life of the woman carrying the baby. Feyd killed his mother, as Mohaim tells Irulan, so she.....thinks it's a good idea to have one of her acolytes get pregnant by him?

Isn't Carol also 'technically' the same age she was when she got her powers? Because Monica was a kid in the first Captain Marvel movie, and now she's an adult while Carol looks more or less the same. Since Kamala seems to be taking an active role in recruiting the next team, they could always rope Carol in occasionally for the grumpy mentor spot, although I don't know how much Fury will be involved yet. As I said before, I'm sure RL scheduling has something to do with it, because on a separate but related note, someone on social media said that Zendaya is so busy now that she won't be able to do another season of Euphoria. Even that is something that happens when there's so much time between seasons, since the new one isn't supposed to start until 2025, and with that much downtime it would be strange if she wasn't pursuing other opportunities.

There's a piece in there where I think Jac Schaeffer wanted some consequences for what Wanda did in Westview. No, she doesn't go to jail or prison (although pfft to that anyway since FATWS has Bucky and Sam gallivanting around Europe with Helmut Zemo), but she lost Vision (for the third time) and her kids, leaving her with nothing. There was no reason outside of it being a cheat that the two Visions couldn't have been melded into one, so even if the boys did disappear he'd have still been with her in some capacity, but that's not what Schaeffer wanted to do. The big mistake was in trying to retread that story, only with less care. It was still Wanda looking for something she'd lost, only this was not the same woman who responded with a warning to the man who'd just fired on her with an armed drone. A better writer (if not Schaeffer herself, then not Michael Waldron, who should never have been allowed near that script) would have been aware that this was ground that had already been walked, would have tried something different. Anything different. Someone did the math, and Kate and Yelena had a little over thirteen minutes of screen time together; the scene at Kate's apartment, then the fight before Yelena's confrontation with Clint. Those thirteen minutes have spawned over 2000 fanfics, and the number is still growing, so it's crazy that it's taken them this long to bring Kate back into the action, and that's just in an end credits scene. I'm sure they have a schedule or whatever, in addition to any other demands on the actor's time, but one of the MCU"s strengths has always been those interpersonal relations. Maybe the OG Avengers were never the best of friends, and yet those interactions are what makes/made the characters so human, even outside of their world-saving. That's a piece of what's missing now, that even if the universe is connected, the characters really aren't, and its noticeable.

Does that mean Carly is Peg? 'Cause that'd be about right.

Bumping this post up to say that I love the moment where Jake snatches the envelope of money or a check he'd just given to Robbie out of his hand after he finds out the truth. Because Robbie thanks Jake for how he handled it, cleaning up the mess he made by taking care of Penny after the botched abortion. Such a Lennie Briscoe thing to do. It's especially great that we're reminded of Tod's relative immaturity before he gets to the deep stuff about it depending on who the father/man is, because he starts by asking Helen if they can talk straight to each other, and when she says yes he tells her, "Okay, a few months ago, Garry got his first boner." And there's this pause before he adds, "Do you know what that is?" You can see Helen kind of gathering herself before she answers, because Dianne Wiest's voice is just so dry and deadpan when she replies, "If memory serves." Great stuff.

It's been several years since I read the books, but my impression was that it was initially just Jessica trying to convince the Fremen that Paul was their Messiah, and then after the Water of Life it was Jessica and the yet to be born Alia, who speaks to her mother from the womb. There were shades of Rose The Hat in Jessica's soliloquy about converting the non-believers, that they should start with the weaker ones, who feared them because they were outsiders. I believe that Jessica went a bit crazy afterwards, because by the end of the film she's as much of a fanatic as Stilgar, she's just quieter about it. The water was enough to make Alia sentient, so imbibing must have affected her mother as well. I said this upthread, but though this is Paul's story he may or may not have agency within it. It starts out as him seeking safety from those who harmed him, then justice (or revenge, take your pick) for his murdered father and friends, and somewhere in the middle he finds love with Chani, though she continues to identify him as an outsider even before he slips away from her. I believe that if he had not discovered the truth about his heritage - "We're Harkonnens. So that's how we'll survive, by being Harkonnens." - he might never have spoken the words to kick off a war, that the combination of the prophecy and finding out that the rotten old fart who killed his father was related to him drove him over the edge. He knows terrible things are probably coming, that even if all of his visions don't come to pass the war will devastate part of the galaxy, but as he tells Gurney, it's not because he loses control, it's because he gains it.

Indeed, because it's important to remember that this is the franchise that stashes characters who will be very important later in remote areas, so the Sith going unnoticed for literally centuries while they worked in secret wouldn't be wholly new territory. Also? I thought I recognized Carrie Anne Moss, who I either didn't know or forgot was going to be in this. Trinity as a Jedi is gonna send me.

Perhaps, but I would say that the RL ugliness with Jonathan Majors affected things as well. Yes, they've fired him, but Ant-Man 3 was to be Kang's chance to take Thanos' place as the next big threat for this phase. Now they have to either write the character out entirely, recast, or just rework things so that there's another, bigger threat behind him. What they were thinking was that the actor they hired to be the Big Bad for the new phase was not a POS, which doesn't have anything to do with Paul Rudd. Because that would make us fickle, and we're not at all like that.

It wasn't me!