Supposed release date of Aug. 6, 2025.
Lemonade?
First, the obvious, WINDS!
Second, it’s clear HBO will continue to make Game of Thrones content for many years to come. While I would love for George to write it and HBO to eventually adapt it, I’m confident we’ll get it in one form or another someday.
The interconnected universe is here to stay.
Yeah, The Marvels has problems but importantly (for this example) they aren’t solved in another film or TV show.
I think Captain Marvel having secret friends and enemies all around the galaxy is a green idea. She’s had 30 years to get up to adventures. In some of them she’s a heroic princess. In another she is a horrific destroyer, “The Annihilator”.
But we have the baggage of Monica to handle. And Ms Marvel is the perfect sidekick, so we need to include her and she comes with a family that needs to be explored. Also the Skulls, that’s a huge hanging plotline. At this point the film is full, but also we need a villain… Which ended up being the weakest part of the film. And then they still added the whole Flerkin/cat plotline to an already crowded movie.
Ultimately they just had too much to cover and not enough time.
“You’ll be dead,” Swisher noted, to which Downey replied: “But my law firm will still be very active.”
You can have a will and an estate, but if your estate fucks you over is there anything anyone can do about it?
A significant factor facing “Captain America 4” and “Thunderbolts*” is how much they rely on characters and plotlines from several earlier MCU titles
The problem with Return of the Jedi is that you have to watch A New Hope AND Empire Strikes Back first.
With the exception of Multiverse of Madness and Wanda’s children, every film has always made it clear and caught the viewer up. Yes, it helps to have seen the other films and shows, but it’s not the required homework these articles like to claim.
In fact with Captain America 4, you could argue that you need to have seen Cap 1, 2 & 3. However I’ll argue the only film you’ll need to have seen is Endgame. You know the #1 highest grossing film of all time. I think it’s fair to assume people have seen that.
Now with Thunderbolts* we have a whole new cast. But do you remember the 2016 film Suicide Squad? Absolute garbage. But do you remember the 2021 film The Suicide Squad? Great film. The 2021 film had to reintroduce everyone because no one remembers the garbage 2016 one. Did anyone have an issue with that? No.
Now if Thunderbolts* turns out to be garbage it’s not going to be because it requires knowledge of the other films or TV shows, it’s because it will just suck all in its own.
I have no way to put this gently: I cannot conclusively determine which one is more secure.
That’s the only conclusion I would have trusted. Otherwise you should have been awarded the tech equivalent of a Nobel Prize.
Security (and privacy) is not a zero sum game. That isn’t to say we shouldn’t discuss it. That isn’t to say we can’t point out clear advantages.
In any case, I appreciate the write up.
What? Bart is dead.
Well, me saying I’m sorry won’t bring him back.
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after everyone had forgotten
And as a brief note of positivity,
Not everyone, https://rollcall.com/2019/07/23/photo-of-the-day-stewart-smiles-at-mcconnell/
Given the past few years… it’s on mine.
This is a little bit of an odd decision.
I’m guessing this is coming off of the success of X-Men '97. Spider-Man appeared on that series in the past, so they can do a little crossover with that series.
However we’ve also got “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” coming out soon, which is set in yet another alternate universe. The original name of which was “Freshman Year” and I thought already preparing for a “Sophomore Year” season. (Which to me implies a planned 4 season minimum.)
Both of these shows follow Peter Parker, which leaves an obvious gap for Miles Morales or other Spider-people.
However I wouldn’t want to step on the toes of the Spider-verse films, for which we already have Spider-Man Noir in planning and plenty of Spider-Gwen rumors.
I like Spider-Man, but that’s a lot of spider stories.
It’s fatigue. If there were a turd-based fireworks show outside your house every night, eventually you just have to ignore it.
At first, exploding turds, I kinda want to see that. Eventually everything is covered in shit. That’s sort of a problem. A few folks try to clean it up, but it’s A LOT of shit. Your house is covered in shit. Your car is covered in shit. You go to the car wash and things improve… But your car is covered in shit again pretty quickly, so that felt like a waste.
Then someone asks you about that one time when a bunch of people broke into a building and let off shit fireworks everywhere. Sure that was new, but the nightly turd extravaganza still went off just the same. Plus the turd fireworks are always being set off in new and unusual places. I can’t be expected to remember them all.
So The Penguin is great, but this article is a lot of fluff and really just pointing out how stupid Warner Bros. Discovery is.
The strongest sign that The Penguin, the TV spinoff of 2022’s The Batman, would be a good show was when it was announced that the series would switch from Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service Max to become an HBO original series.
The decision was likely a combination of the generally confusing identity of Max to the public consumer and the desire to hitch The Penguin onto a brand name that has historically stood for being the peak of premium TV and that launched the Golden Age of modern television: HBO.
“Max” was a stupid branding decision. HBO is the long-standing name associated with quality. The show is high quality unrelated to the deck chairs the higher ups rearrange.
If “HBO” means quality, then what does “Max” mean?
He takes a long time and weirdly trails off while trying to make his point.
In short it sounds like he’s just talking about the toxicity of having a “team” and ignoring discussion/critiques of your “team”.
To use Pokemon, since it’s referenced in the article, but oddly without a good example. If you like Pokemon media, great.
If you argue that the games YOU grew up with are better than the NEW games, or that new Pokemon suck, you’re just being unnecessarily toxic.
Now if you want to have a discussion about Pokemon games, addition if running shoes helped speed the game up, forced tutorials slowed the game down, the addition of special Pokemon to replace HMs gives more team variety, but at the cost of not having as strong of a connection with your team. Conversations like that great for communities.
Now change the fandom from Pokemon to comic books to TV shows to films to politics.
The article also talks about raising individuals up like “deities”. If you like Stephen King, and he writes a new book, and it’s a bad book, you don’t have to love it. Similarly if you don’t like Stephen King, and he writes a new book, and it’s a good book, you don’t have to hate it. You can be a fan of specific work and dislike others. You’re not a hypocrite, it’s fine.
Looping back to politics specifically. If you liked Trump on The Apprentice, that’s fine. However you can’t just carry that forward for everything. You can’t, or rather shouldn’t, watch Trump on the Apprentice, decide “I like him” , and then like him in everything he does. You should look at policy, look at actions, have a discussion. Realize that your initial evaluation was based on a reality TV host. Even if you liked that, you can’t just assume everything after that you also like.
I like the idea that the bear in Mr. Burns office was smaller when he was younger.
Also, Burns said Homer messed up 742 times, which is likely a reference to their home address (742 Evergreen Terrace), but this was episode 772. I sure hope someone was fired for that blunder.
Also being on TV for 35+ years and unaged makes for weird flashbacks.
You got yourself a narc.
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Bonus scene.
Happy Love Day Everyone!
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