SeanC

To the extent that that's the case, it's people copying the current Marvel formula. If you look at Thor: Love and Thunder in comparison to this summer's highest-grossing film, Top Gun: Maverick, for instance, there's a pretty big difference in how it approaches humour and stakes. Or how the MCU formula compares to a lot of the best earlier superhero movies.

Yes, the setup is that the F-35 (the American equivalent to the enemy fifth generation planes) is unusable due to GPS jamming, so they have to use older aircraft. The tech disparity is purely situational.

I don't think that will ever happen. The original X-Men lineup isn't anywhere close to the most popular iteration of the team (it literally got cancelled), it's devoid of diversity (granted, you could cast your way around that), and has only one woman on the team. The X-Men have had numerous media adaptations at this point, and none of them have ever used the original lineup as the basis.

I thought the same thing there. The novel this was based on was published in 2009, which, even then that was into the social media age.

A+ fashion choice from Robin with the combat beret. I credit the writers, they momentarily made me think they might actually be killing Max. Pretty grisly injuries. There was speculation about what sort of time jump there's be between seasons, but this ending really doesn't seem like it would be one where they'd just go back to the status quo for very long.

I really don't buy that her brother is a fanfic writer.

The X-Men are the single-biggest IP goldmine amongst Marvel's various properties.

I don't think so. If you dwindle in commercial importance, your status inevitably dwindles with it. That's why the Avengers franchise got that big reboot to try to amp up its importance by adding more popular characters in the mid-2000s, for instance.

B-list within the comics was a fair assessment around the the 2000s, also. They were getting by on historical importance while being fairly minor commercial properties.

If they don't want Wolverine to be the central figure in the new iteration, they can just write it that way. There is no reason not to have him in the movie.

They recast Spider-Man despite Maguire's version of the character being even bigger in terms of commercial success, if obviously not quite as long in tenure, I don't think that's something they'd be worried about.

He could be left out (there are a zillion X-Men characters), but why would you? He's the most popular, and when launching a franchise you put your best foot forward. It's already been five years since Wolverine appeared in a movie, and will likely be closer to ten by the time an X-Men film is actually made since there are no announced plans for any in the next couple.

Wolverine is the most popular X-Man, there is no way he'll be left out of the X-Men's introduction.

I mean, he's kind of self-centered and immature. Just not to some grandiose or self-destructive level. Anyway, I thought it was a very charming little film. I was a bit thrown by the promos showing Dakota Johnson as the mother of a teenager, but her being a teen mom was actually central to her character, so that checks out.

The actress who played Francesca was only a cameo in the first season, she presumably didn't have any sort of long-term contract at the time, meaning that the show didn't have first claim on her time when filming season 2 if she had auditioned for other stuff.

You kind of have to just go with the flow of this AU history, but all the same, I had a hard time not laughing at all the aristocratic tut-tutting about "political radicals" when George and Charlotte solved racism in the span of a couple of decades. Like, I guarantee whatever they're talking about at Eloise's meetings, it's not as radical as the creation of a completely racially-integrated society.

They’re not, hence the discussion about which member of the dynasty is better.

Belatedly, but: Rian Johnson has more detective stories he'd like to tell, and this is a vehicle for that. This makes sense as a franchise as long as he has more ideas he'd like to explore, and since there's no ongoing story or recurring characters it's not like there's any risk of harming the memory of a preceding film.

Not, since Killmonger choosing to die at the end of Black Panther leant it much of its impact. One of the advantages of the MCU is that unlike the comics they don't have to keep every single plate spinning indefinitely, things can have an ending.

But then there's no conflict.

That's a pretty basic violation of privacy, and she's going through a hard time at school. Not to mention how he treats her throughout that conversation. I don't see anything there that suggests she's spoiled.

What exactly have Margaret or Martha done that indicates they're spoiled? Their situation is quite sad.

From Mr. Wheeler's comment about Mike's "sweetie pie", evidently they know he has a girlfriend living with the Byers family; what exactly do the parents think the story is there?

I was astounded that none of them got Trafalgar, which is the most famous naval battle pre-20th century. Especially the British woman. Lord Nelson is looking askance from atop his column.

It seems like there was originally more stuff with the pilots who didn't end up getting chosen for the mission (e.g., Jacinto's character), and all things considered I think that's an easy place to make cuts since they aren't actually involved in the climax.