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I'm curious if Secret Wars would be a movie or a series. Assuming they're using the 2015 story as inspiration, I don't know how they do it without a Fantastic Four movie, because it was an FF-focused event. And absent that, Ant-Man and the Wasp suddenly become the lynchpin of Kang Dynasty, which actually does track, because Wasp was Avengers chairperson during that story.

Marvel Studios has trademarked the following titles. Avengers: Secret Wars Avengers: Kang Dynasty Thunderbolts Multiverse Saga Captain America: New World Order

I mean, the joke was that they were monsters who were just a loving family who thought they were normal. This basically throws all of that out the window. And it still looks so cheap.

I love marketing copy. What does it say that Universal doesn't even want this apparent turd on its own platform?

Venom, I of course get. Kraven, I get. Even Morbius, I get. Unless they're using the Julia Carpenter version, Madame Web is a psychic who is paralyzed and sits in a chair connected to a spiderweb. I cannot crack the existence of this film for the life of me.

Who had the idea of basing a movie around Madame Web, of all characters? Did someone decide they didn't lose quite enough money on Morbius?

It may be coming directly to Peacock, so you may not have to.

I feel like it would at least look less cheap in black and white. Unfortunately, that wouldn't do much for Sheri Moon Zombie's terrible acting/attempt to mimic Elvira. Cassandra Peterson is apparently in it, although playing a character, not as Elvira.

Should a two and a half minute trailer make me cry?

And thus evaporates any interest i had in this one.

It made them look like an interfaith couple, and I think I kind of ship them now. I really adored this episode. Totally stuck the landing.

A lot of those numbers were during a speculation boom. People snapped up "The Death of Superman" because they were expecting it to appreciate in value like it was Action Comics #1. Same with Spider-Man.

The one thing I wanted more than anything else was for them to do justice to the Goddess of Thunder story, and given how jokey the trailers were, I was worried. But they played that part straight, and I walked out of the theater perfectly satisfied. Natalie Portman kicked ass this time.

"Balance of Terror" is a truly gripping episode. It's astonishingly well made, and you'll recognize some lines from this episode. I do think they should have just gone for it and had James Frain play the Romulan commander.

I've always thought that Kirk was kind of the middle path between Spock and McCoy. I don't know if we see that with Paul Wesley's Kirk, because the dynamics that have shaped his life are so very different.

I admire the brashness of them taking one of the franchise's high water marks and doing an alternate take on it. I thought on the whole it was pretty successful. Boy, did Jess Bush make her screen time count.

The "Gorn can't be seen on the scanners" was previously established in Enterprise's "In A Mirror, Darkly," so at least that part has precedent.

I'm assuming there will be a lot of digital de-aging of the Sandersons?

Let's get back to discussion of the episode, please and thank you.

Hulk was a known commodity because of Lou Ferrigno. Spider-Man had a string of cartoons going back to the late 60s. X-Men broke through into the popular consciousness because of the animated series.

The outfit reminded me more than a little of an 80s fantasy movie, although I couldn't decide which one.

I was expecting/dreading a rehash of DS9's "If Wishes Were Horses" but this was so much better on basically every single level. While I don't want to say that I'm glad they dispatched Rukiya, the idea of a kid on a pre-TNG starship really bugged me, even if she was only being pulled out of the transporter occasionally. Since it turned out to be the happiest possible ending, I'm glad they went this route, rather than having M'Benga cure her and then have her running around the ship constantly.