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[placid river]

Seems like it took some time for the script to get written. Some people in the know have hinted that there was stuff in Reeves’s personal life that affected things

[agile drift]

The pitt 2.7

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2024668342045295005?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Eric Dane has sadly passed away at the age of 53.

X · Feb 20, 2026, 2:12 AM

R.I.P.

[silver oyster]

the pitt s2e7 ||the SA survivor exam was absolutely brutal. i'm a man watching it through the screen, and I still felt the stress and humiliation the victim was going through. heavens above||

great ep, but damn

[steep bramble]

When I heard the name I didn’t realize who he was. And then I saw all the pictures.

[muted solar]

I must resist the weekly Pitt watch. I must resist the weekly Pitt watch

[frank quail]

I need to finish binging so I can join the weekly watch

[minor isle]

I am successfully resisting weekly watch

I watch it the way it is meant to be watch

continuously without break like an ER shift

[silver oyster]

I'm enjoying the weekly discussions

Feels a bit like stormlight previews

[lucid haven]

Join us

Watch every week

[muted solar]

I’m not quite all in one sitting like Goro mentioned, but I try to get close-ish

I don’t love having to wait a week between episodes these days, particularly when there are cliffhangers

What’s a lotbit of emotional damage? You know?

[wet quest]

It's Matrix Day everyone, don't forget to wear sunglasses everywhere you go to celebrate

[stoic falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/sunglasses-whoa-amazed-gif-12974322

[lucid haven]

What do you mean exactly by matrix day

[wet quest]

It's the anniversary of the release of The Matrix

[oak ivy]

@dusk hound DC on top???

The absolute comics is a generational victory

[dusk hound]

Batman really is just head and shoulders above every superhero in terms of popularity

Insane

[minor isle]

they are so good too

[oak ivy]

Absolute universe is a must read

[dire moss]

im not super into comics but ive heard enough good things about the Abolute stuff that once the colletions/omnibusses start coming out ill absolutly grab em

[lucid haven]

No its not

How does feb 20th relate to the 1st matrix movie

[oak ivy]

Very very worth

Also self contained which is great

[topaz oyster]

Batman, Spider-man, and Superman have been top 3 in just about every poll I can remember seeing, and usually in that order

[oak ivy]

In terms of sales it is batman then spiderman then everyone else

[topaz oyster]

I don't think its an accident that Batman and Spider-man both operate extremely well independently of their greater extended universes, though that may be a bit chicken and egg at this point

[oak ivy]

Batman can operate independently, spiderman more or less has to

Batman leading the justice league makes sense. Spiderman is canonically a B tier hero

[cold sequoia]

batman operates well independently because as a popular character he gets more batman-related projects which introduce more batman-related stuff which allows for more batman-related projects

spider-man is the same I think

[oak ivy]

The real similarity is that batman and spiderman have the best rogues gallery in comics

[topaz oyster]

I think that's chicken and egg too

Both of them have some real uh subpar rogues that went by the wayside but their popularity means they can tank it pretty effortlessly and move on

[oak ivy]

The original Lee run of spiderman sets up most of his iconic ones

The sinister six is quite an early development

[topaz oyster]

Right but how many people have been in the sinister six

[pine flicker]

I think Spider-Man would have grown even larger if Sony didn’t hold the movie rights

[silver bronze]

wdym? Captain Condiment and The Wall are incredible vilains

[oak ivy]

The main six were all introduced in the first 15 issues

[topaz oyster]

Of the original six, I'll grant that four are all timers, but Vulture and Electro are absolutely riding coattails

[oak ivy]

This doesnt even have goblin

4 iconic villains is more than 99% of superheroes

[cold sequoia]

I disagree, the Raimi movies helped Spider-man

and being distanced from the MCU also helped

[oak ivy]

Obviously kraven and such needed elaboration but building up that many villains that quickly in unprecedented

[topaz oyster]

Sandman too

[pine flicker]

This most definitely hurt him

[oak ivy]

The real issue here is bc sony owns the rights Marvel is actually punished for writing good spiderman comics

Also they cant have him in events

[pine flicker]

Raimi was fine but everything they’ve done since then has held Spidey back

Minus the animated movies

[oak ivy]

In terms of quality i think homecoming is the best LA spiderman to date

[crimson kelp]

hard disagree on this

[topaz oyster]

If the Raimi movies had come out in the 2010s I don't think he would have even gotten a third movie approved

Wildly overrated films

[oak ivy]

I found the raimi movies borderline unwatchable

[cold sequoia]

Spider-man 2 made a huge profit so I'm not sure where you are coming from there

[topaz oyster]

I think it did because there wasn't much of a standard to compete with

[pine flicker]

I didn’t like a Spiderman movie until the first Garfield one tbh

[cold sequoia]

if it were made from scratch in the 2010s why are you assuming it would be the same as it's 2004 version?

[pine flicker]

The real loser in the movie rights battle though is The Hulk

[crimson kelp]

honestly I'm way more likely to watch a superhero movie that isn't connected to the MCU than one that is at this point

[pine flicker]

That makes you an anomaly statistically

[topaz oyster]

I mean, that's kind of the point

[pine flicker]

X-Men movies were better than the Spider-Man ones

[cold sequoia]

I don't understand the point of "movie made in 2004 would have been made differently than one made in 2014"

[crimson kelp]

I think you are incorrect but I suspect neither of us has a source to back that up, so maybe let's stick to anecdotes/personal opinions

and eh people have been talking about marvel fatigue for a good long while

[cold sequoia]

if it were made after Iron Man and the Avengers then of course it'd be different, the genre had solidified at that point whereas in 2004 it was in its infancy

[forest wigeon]

Spider-Man 1 and 3 are both kinda mediocre, but I love Spider-Man 2

[topaz oyster]

I mean even if they'd been made in 2004, put in a vault for a decade, and then released with the digital touched up I think they'd struggle

[cold sequoia]

I think that's true of every superhero film before the Dark Knight

[topaz oyster]

Maybe? I could see Reeves Superman cooking even now

[cold sequoia]

have you seen it recently?

[topaz oyster]

How recently is recently

In the last 5-10 years, yes

[cold sequoia]

it is far too quaint and hokey for modern times

[lone canyon]

Also have their rogues have redemption arcs lol

[dusk hound]

The Flash is certainly up there too but Spidey and Batman have better rogues

[pine flicker]

Look at the performance of the average MCU movie vs the average non-MCU movie.

Genre fatigue is a cop-out

[pine flicker]

Probably true lol

[lone canyon]

Ehhh my argument against this is that superman would 100% have made 1 billion if it released pre covid

[pine flicker]

The most recent one?

[lone canyon]

Yeah

[crimson kelp]

Also don't compare MCU to non-MCU, compare MCU to MCU if you wanna look at fatigue/loss of engagement

for a while every movie they put out was making high hundreds of millions as a minimum

[lone canyon]

People do go to theatres less post covid but avatar 2 and Zootopia still made bank

[pine flicker]

It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t that great. However, I find Superman to be a kind of boring character and the fact that the KNOWN start of the DCU or whatever didn’t do great is worrying

[crimson kelp]

the past five years? I think only Deadpool broke the billion dollar mark? And that isn't even really an MCU movie.

[pine flicker]

DC has some amazing storylines it could utilize

[pine flicker]

“Fatigue” is critics not wanting to call out terrible writing

Which is where the real loss of engagement stems

[lone canyon]

I think superman was as good a superhero movie as you’re gonna get

[crimson kelp]

but you undermine your own initial argument which is that a connected universe is inherently beneficial, and now you're just saying that people prefer to see good movies not bad ones

[topaz oyster]

Iron Man 2 made 3x than Fantastic Four, and was a worse movie

[lone canyon]

Winter soldier and iron man 1 were better but superman is def one of the better superhero movies

[pine flicker]

Nah. The MCU bad films still did alright (mostly). Look at how films like Morbius and Madame Web performed

[dusk hound]

PARADISE LOST ISNT CANCELLED

LETS GOOO

[topaz oyster]

I don't know that "fatigue" is the best word necessarily but people certainly are not going to see a movie just because it has the MCU name on it in ways that were true 10-15 years ago, when many of the films were just as bad

[pine flicker]

Yeah Ironman 2 was trash, but it was in the middle of a cluster of hits. F4 is a fantastic four movie and Marvel needs to just let that ship sail

[lone canyon]

@pine flicker I’m not sure what you’re arguing?

[pine flicker]

The chance of an MCU film being bad has increased noticeably since Eternals

[topaz oyster]

I'm not really convinced F4 being F4 is the problem

[pine flicker]

The ability for Marvel to make a good movie script with F4, or make the characters interesting, seems to be a tripping point for them

[topaz oyster]

I'm not sure that's true, I think people are just less tolerant of mid films

Marvel's tried precisely once and more or less got it right

F4 isn't revolutionary or anything but it was a fine watch

[pine flicker]

Not really arguing. I hope DCU succeeds, but the way they ended the DCEU is kinda working against them

[pine flicker]

What did you think of Thunderbolts?

[lone canyon]

Tbh I’m not optimistic about dcu either lmao

I feel like the only character with big screen franchise potential is Batman

[pine flicker]

I think they need to do a few movies outside the big 3 that are just written really well

[lone canyon]

Wonder woman is mid and superman has no international appeal

I’d just do a standalone Batman cinematic universe tbh

[pine flicker]

Watchmen, for instance, could lend itself to a lot of interesting stories and set the mood for expanding to the further DC properties

[topaz oyster]

Also just okay. But to be clear, I think most MCU movies have historically been just okay. The standouts are, well, standouts

[crimson kelp]

yeah it's kinda crazy the degree to which marvel managed to make Captain America a character with wide appeal but Superman remains such an all-american boy.

[cold sequoia]

watchmen does best when it's not being tied into the wider DCU, as seen in HBO's series compared to the comic stuff they've done recently

[lone canyon]

I do think winter soldier was just an unironically really good movie even outside of being a superhero movie

[crimson kelp]

It very much was

[pine flicker]

Right, which is why I think it would work as a front runner. It’s able to hold up on its own, while they could lay threads for other DCU movies

[lone canyon]

Winter soldier ||war hero and spec ops agent unravels government conspiracy is just timeless||

[pine flicker]

I would like to see comic faithful Kingdom Come and Old Man Logan adaptations. And IMO the Daredevil/Punisher series have been the best comic book non-comic media to date

[oak ivy]

Luckily they can just copy absolute wonder woman

But yeah WW on her own is boring af

[west escarp]

Rude!!!!

She is not!

[oak ivy]

She is and im tried of pretending otherwise

[west escarp]

She just has been underutilized

[oak ivy]

Its been 70 years!

[pine flicker]

The issue with WW is a ton of her fundamental writing was kinda sexist

[oak ivy]

WW is the Potential Woman of the DC comics universe

[pine flicker]

It needs revamped, but done well

[west escarp]

It has been since George Peres wroter her which was 30 years ago

[oak ivy]

Yeah that has been cleaned out

Issue nothing compelling has replaced it

Until absolute

[west escarp]

Which is when Superman last had interesting unique stories too (without involving his stupid kid)

[pine flicker]

Godfall was neat but idk if that works well in a movie universe

[west escarp]

It’s just that all the writers have a pet character and mostly they’re in the Batman zone

Except Geoff Jones who is inexplicably super into the Lanterns

[pine flicker]

Maybe he just has terrible night vision

[west escarp]

He has terrible vision alright

[cold sequoia]

I don't see it, the themes that Watchmen examines are totally lost when you start tying in other heros

[dusk hound]

Shut it down

[pine flicker]

Dark, brooding storyline with “heroes” that waltz the line of becoming villains themselves?

[dusk hound]

Shut down the DCU

It’s over

[oak ivy]

He is hopeful not an idiot

[cold sequoia]

`Watchmen is fundamentally a criticism of the concept of superheros, using it to launch a cinematic universe of superheros is at best missing the point and at worst blatantly ignoring it

[pine flicker]

Either of those options is fine tbh

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/QZV4EL5wjC4?si=t0s2hMyS3vKtvzLh

[winged mountain]

SolidJJ for DCU head

[oak ivy]

Really concerned by the name “princess darkseid” what is that implying

[lone canyon]

She’s a paragon of the idealist and heroic ideal! … oh wait superman is already that

[west escarp]

Don’t worry about that

[cobalt onyx]

Excellent, DCU confirmed for "Superman investigates his generous, mysterious ftl-capable arctic neighbour" movie

[pine flicker]

I think it’s a bit of an issue when, in order to make a character interesting, you have to strip away all their powers

[oak ivy]

WW doesnt work bc she just is what she is supposed to be. She is the most beautiful the most strongest the most powerful the most hopeful and the most boring character not named damien wayne

[topaz oyster]

We also have, what, threeish different active "what if Superman, but bad"s happening right now

[oak ivy]

Which is why putting her in hell was a genius level move

We need a 30 year moratorium on EVIL superman

[pine flicker]

Bizarro enters the chat

[cold sequoia]

I dont' think this is really what watchmen is about tbh, it's more like "superman cannot be good"

[pine flicker]

I thought Watchmen was about tentacle creatures

[small quarry]

okayy but why does wonderwoman wear those silly american flag panties

[west escarp]

Watchman is about making the phrase “who watches the watchmen” sound cool and obscuring the fact that its original context is “if you put bodyguards on your wife to keep her from cheating on you, she will cheat on you with the bodyguards”

[west escarp]

Because of the Lynda Carter show

https://tenor.com/view/lynda-carter-run-wonder-woman-gif-11514109

[cobalt onyx]

She's aggressively anti-American

[west escarp]

She didn’t have the American flag theme before this

[cold sequoia]

they also got rid of those in the comics in favor of a skirt i think

[dusk hound]

She did tho

It was just a skirt

[pine flicker]

Injustice could work if done well 🤔

Perhaps WW needs her own Dark Knight -esque revamp

[oak ivy]

Oh so that why people think WW is interesting

[west escarp]

Because Lynda Carter is gorgeous? Yes

[oak ivy]

The truth comes out

[midnight compass]

Clearly it's about this

[west escarp]

They also made up three seasons of material for her

[pine flicker]

Okay but it unironically kinda is about that

[oak ivy]

What even are the best mainline WW stories

[west escarp]

The one where she fought Medusa and blinded herself to win

The one where she became the Goddess of Truth temporarily

The one where she lost her powers in the 1980s and experiences the traps of poverty

[pine flicker]

Regular dude in a trench coat gets obliterated by infinite power being for telling him they can’t allow a false flag attack

Just because infinite power being can’t figure out what time it is

[west escarp]

There was a good one in the New52 where she fought Hades but I try to block the New52 out due to the terrible shipping if her with Superman

[oak ivy]

Absolute wonder woman? More like absolute baddie.

[pine flicker]

Oooo yes.

[oak ivy]

Also her new52 design was cringe. Even 13 year old me was turned away

[pine flicker]

Has she not heard of a blindfold?

[west escarp]

She tried that, Medusa kept removing it

[oak ivy]

Post another panel codenames i dare ya

[west escarp]

Then she refused healing

[pine flicker]

Ah.

[small quarry]

did they make out

[oak ivy]

@west escarp have you seen absolute zatana lmao

[west escarp]

And spent the next few issues permanently blind

[oak ivy]

That might get mia to read comics

[west escarp]

Yes and once again I ask my question: is she single

[small quarry]

listen i tried reading a red lanterns comic the other day and there was this one gal whose ass was in basically every panel it was crazy

[pine flicker]

They could make her story more Kratos-like. Give her more of a sense of having worked to get where she’s at

[oak ivy]

They know what the people want

[small quarry]

it was absurd 😭

[oak ivy]

Read Absolute WW

[small quarry]

ah yes, very important panel for the plot (tagged cuz butt)

[oak ivy]

Actually no discord hates me

[oak ivy]

I think she is also evil

[azure fern]

Its about tushy?

[small quarry]

she looks good but i gotta trust my guy batmanlaughs43 on this one sorry duck

[dusk hound]

Diana always has top tier fits

[oak ivy]

Where did you find this

[small quarry]

i went looking for a high res version of that image

SHE HAS A MUZZLE?????

[oak ivy]

I was going to say

I think it is a feminist statement about silencing women’s voices

But also

[cold sequoia]

absolute designs for black canary, wonder woman, and zatana

[small quarry]

spoilers for absolute ww i guess but ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[keen flax]

I saw absolute black canary earlier today in a reel and MANNN OH MANNNNN THEY ARE GONNA COOK 😭

[molten jetty]

The absolute universe is so crazy lmao

[west escarp]

Who cares about the ass when I spy Dex-Starr the Red Lantern cat

James Gunn put Dex-Starr in the DCU or you’re a hack

[oak ivy]

READ IT

[molten jetty]

Which one

MM looks cool

[dusk hound]

He needs to put Ch’p in

The green lantern squirrel

[oak ivy]

the first six issues of MM should be where you start

[keen flax]

I want the box

Nothing else will suffice

[oak ivy]

everything is self contained but you can read that in an afternoon

[west escarp]

This too

[oak ivy]

absolute superman has cosmic in a chokehold bc violent mc and class warfare

[keen flax]

🤩

[molten jetty]

🔥

[keen flax]

nods nods

[molten jetty]

Absolute superman is hot tbf

[oak ivy]

absolute ww made being sapphic cool

[molten jetty]

Hotter than regular superman wait what

[west escarp]

Doesn’t Absolute MM have puzzles and games and such?

[keen flax]

No no speak your truth

[oak ivy]

real

[oak ivy]

there are panels that change if you hold them up to a light

absolute batman is just insanity

[molten jetty]

I saw people on Reddit talking about a Strahd mod for BG3 and a lot of people said “who would romance Strahd”. Someone said “if they genderbent Strahd all these people would say Oh I get it”. That feels correct.

[oak ivy]

absolute flash kinda sucks but we move

[molten jetty]

The sapphics yearn

[oak ivy]

the sapphics lust when it comes to AWW

[molten jetty]

WHAT

[west escarp]

That’s because despite Wally looking like a butch lesbian with that haircut they did not go that route with him

[molten jetty]

Are you saying Absolute Flash would be more successful if the Flash was sapphic

[oak ivy]

you really really need to read AMM

it has autsim posting

kinda

[west escarp]

Well it probably wouldn’t be less successful

Since it’s doing really bad

[molten jetty]

Is the 1-6 collection good or should I buy them individually for the hold up to the light stuff

[west escarp]

I’m getting my Absolute WW collected trade v2 this weekend

[oak ivy]

im not sure, this is probs a reddit question

[molten jetty]

Yeah. I’m sure Reddit addressed it

[oak ivy]

read it anyway you can, the first trade should be out

[molten jetty]

I think the answer is yes because it has Martian Vision

[oak ivy]

in that case yes it will work

[molten jetty]

I’m going to B and N today so I’ll check

[small quarry]

it is very funny cuz one of the most popular curse of strahd fan modules is making him a gal lmao

[dusk hound]

Please god, I’m sick of all the “Wonder Woman doesn’t deserve to be on the superhero Mount Rushmore” discourse https://x.com/CQuill97/status/2024936530729435401?s=20

ClarkQuill97 (@CQuill97)

We deserve a new Wonder Woman movie soon, with a good actress this time

X · Feb 20, 2026, 7:57 PM

[winged mountain]

honestly if a 'mount rushmore' is defined as a top 4, it's pretty crowded

[oak ivy]

She isnt close to top 4

[burnt shale]

4 is clearly goku

[winged mountain]

I remember when Demon Slayer came out and peoples heads melted at it being called a comic book movie

[pine flicker]

Ok but yes

Realistically I don’t see anyone beating Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, Captain America

In whatever order you please

[cold sequoia]

Joker or Harley Quinn beats Captain America

[pine flicker]

For a Mount Rushmore of super heroes?

[cold sequoia]

oh I missed superhero

in that case it'd just be Harley

[pine flicker]

Still no

[oak ivy]

Batman and spider-man are 1 and 2

Argue about the rest

[pine flicker]

With proper marketing, Wolverine could outshine Cap

[west escarp]

Joker and Catwoman and Robin all debuted in the third ever Batman comic

Which predates Captain America by almost a decade

Wolverine 100% outshies Captain America

Also suggestion for the mods: make this channel #comics for April fools

[celest mango]

I feel like everyone agrees on the first three and the fourth spot is what people argue about

[pine flicker]

Wolverine is my favorite and I didn’t want to unfairly place him too high

[cold sequoia]

well #1404497733108236318 is where comic discussion is supposed to happen but it's been proven to be a lost cause getting you all to go there for it

[pine flicker]

Probably the most realistic take

[oak ivy]

It is tough bc it often goes to movies and video games

[gritty sierra]

Media is fine as a catchall

it's theoretically there for these gaps and in between areas

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/oops-gif-10031223162004539162

[cold sequoia]

yeah as long as it's not spread across channels it's fine given that everyone seems to intuitively use this channel for it

[oak ivy]

TOP FIVE SUPERHEROES OBJECTIVE

1. Batman
2. the spiderman in people’s heads
3. Absolute Zatanna (its a metaphor)
4. Hugh Jackman
5. the girl reading this post 🥺

[cold sequoia]

no daredevil means spaceduck didn't write this

[pine flicker]

Daredevil is ma boiii

[keen flax]

Leo
Donnie
Raphael
Casey Jones, but only the 2003 version

😌

[pine flicker]

Doing Splinter dirty

[keen flax]

Im sorry but I wasnt down bad for him so 🥴

[oak ivy]

I am all here for the mikey slander

[pine flicker]

Which one is Mikey?

Orange?

[keen flax]

Yep!

And its not Mikey slander moreso than its.... I never found his character all that compelling? And I've watched 3 different shows (03, 2012, and Rise), and hes best in rise because Rise is the funniest one

[pine flicker]

I never got into TMNT tbh

[keen flax]

But thats more of a show thing than a Mikey thing

I have a strange attachment to it, I've been watching the different shows since I was very little 😂

I still neet to watch TMNT (the movie), I've seen clips!

[pine flicker]

I watched power rangers a lot as a kid

Seems to be a similar vibe

[agile drift]

My color coded hero show was ninjago

[keen flax]

SAME!!

-# I watched a lot of color coded hero shows

[lucid haven]

I would totally put it top 4 superheroes as batman, superman, Spiderman and wonderwoman in that order

[spring barn]

I think the Power Rangers I got to see the most of was Samurai

Either that or SPD

I got to see a good few others but none as much as those two

[lucid haven]

I can't decide on iron man vs wolverine for 5th tho

Mabey Deadpool would be up there somewhere too

[west escarp]

Wolverine 100%

Nobody cared about Iron Man before the 2009 movie but Wolverine has never been out of comics since his debut

[buoyant scroll]

Absolute Zatanna
With or without muzzle?

[oak ivy]

Dont matter

[buoyant scroll]

smh

[crimson kelp]

this kinda top x definitely depends who you are talking about asking

do you mean for comics fans or, like, the average rando who just watches superhero movies?

[molten jetty]

And also the weird middle ground of stuff like manhwa or donghua or light novels

[oak ivy]

True

[west escarp]

We must do nothing for the average random who only watches movies

I am gatekeepign comics from them until they get attached to a cool side character in a run who won’t appear again for at least 15 years

[oak ivy]

Like wonder woman, for example

[winged mountain]

Comic books might be the 'traditional' venue for those characters, but I feel like their biggest presence in pop culture comes from the movies anyway

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/azuzlis-caramellx-death-battles-teapot-rage-gif-21400435

Diana is not a side character!!!

[winged mountain]

like, a lot of people have seen The Dark Knight, probably more people than have read a significant number of Batman comics (don't really know how to define that, but more than a just dabbling with a few issues)

[west escarp]

And they got attatched to Carrie Kelly, who has appeared like twice since

Good enough for me

[oak ivy]

Cassandra cain will have a good comic run trust

[west escarp]

No she won’t

I’ve given up hope

Same as Stephanie Brown, because I imprinted on her when she had her excellent Batgirl run. Just as it was being published. In 2010

Before DC said just one more reboot to fix our continuity

Oh my god that was 16 years ago.

[oak ivy]

Stephanie brown isnt even a character anymore

Hell tim drake isnt either

[west escarp]

Believe me, I know

[oak ivy]

I get the point of making tim drake bi, but brown really caught a stray there

[west escarp]

Yeah and they didn’t even let him date Kon

They made Tim and a Superboy bi but it was the wrong Superboy and somehow it made both characters more boring

[oak ivy]

You arent interested in tim dating tim drake’s boyfriend? And nothing bad ever happens?

[west escarp]

No

Tim should be dating Kon and should do something insane like plant a tracker under his skin

1990s Tim Drake should’ve done something insane like that

[oak ivy]

90s tim drake moved differently

Then he got gentrified

[west escarp]

Because they forced out Chuck Dixon for being awful

[oak ivy]

Damian wayne was a mistake ill say it

[west escarp]

I think he was an interesting idea, and he worked well in Morrison’s run with Dick as Batman

The real problem is that everything’s a mini run or a build up to a big Crisis/event comic now

So you can’t get like a 30 issue run where the writer decides to make some bonkers choices about how everyone is sabotaging a teammates date out of jealousy or they’re getting inexplicably super into a hobby and it’s interfering with super heroing or they want to go be a hero in Hawaii for a while now

[oak ivy]

For bat fam to work they need a status quo to play off

[west escarp]

Yes

For most team comics tbh

[oak ivy]

Batman can be static for entire arcs. The teenagers in particular need to grow and evolve, and it hard to do that mid MASSIVE JOKER V KILLER CROC WAR OMG GOTHAM WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

let cass stress about getting a date for prom

[west escarp]

Also it’s just fun to occasionally get silly with it

[keen flax]

I want more bane

No reason im just obsessed with him :3

[cold sequoia]

Oh, framemaxxing!

[dusk hound]

What are your thoughts on Absolute Bane

[west escarp]

Considering that by today’s sliding scale, Kon was made in like 2009, he would be using Gen Z slang

[topaz oyster]

Kon El sucks

Strictly because I hop in here for five seconds and am completely baffled

[west escarp]

Rude

[oak ivy]

Kon on Kon violence

[silver bronze]

is that with or without the serum?

[west escarp]

Based on the stretched and ripped fabric I suspect with

[keen flax]

🫣🫣🫣🥴🥴💖💕💖💕💖💕

[silver bronze]

yep, looked it up and this is Bane without

insane how big they made him when Absolute Batman is like 6'6 or smth

[west escarp]

His pecs are bigger than his head

[silver bronze]

his fists are bigger than his head

im pretty sure he crushed a mans skull without the serum

[west escarp]

Absolute Wonder Woman: gets magic and a big sword and a bone Pegasus so she can defeat huge evil monsters and back talk gods
Absolute Batman: dealing with this guy without his money or superhuman abilities

Darkseid is playing favorites

[silver bronze]

dude everytime a new Absolute Batman villain gets revealed people go "Bruce knows he can just quit right?"

this man is fighting legit demons

HAVE YOU SEEN ABSOLUTE JOKER?

[small quarry]

no

👀

[silver bronze]

sigh

[west escarp]

I liked Absolute Poison Ivy from this weeks issues (or the previews that came out this week)

[silver bronze]

this doesnt show his size but he's also big

[west escarp]

she seems like ||she might also be a Black Mercy. But the bait and switch of “sexy woman as a lure for eldritch monster” was still really good ||

Absolute Poison Ivy, behind a spoiler as she is brand new

[lone canyon]

Does Connor even exist anymore

Didn’t he get retconned from existence

[west escarp]

They brought him back by pretending he’d been in another dimension called Gemworld all this time and now he goes to school in smallville sort of

[turbid laurel]

So just got out of “Nirvana the Band the Movie the Show” and I highly recommend it. It’s super funny and an easy watch. Definitely going to try to get it on Blu-Ray.

[empty locust]

I got yt premium free for 1 month!

[forest wigeon]

I mean, 2009 was 17 years ago. I feel like saying Iron Man should be ranked lower just because he was historically less known is a bit weird

[oak ivy]

@molten jetty did you get the martian

[molten jetty]

No I got the second Eva manga instead

[oak ivy]

grrrr

[distant birch]

That version honestly looks fairly chill compared to the actual issue art.
[AB 15]

[feral grail]

5? I didn't know there was a 4th

[placid river]

Cassandra Cain has a good comic run right now

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/quorpiest/809108102685327360/no-mi-circo-no-mis-feratus

[wraith sand]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE8yYJmpxeI&pp=ygUXZGVubmlzIHRoZSBtZW5hY2UgY2Fub2U%3D

Anyone else old enough to remember this movie? I swear I must have watched it dozens if not hundreds of times as a kid. lol.

[forest wigeon]

mi feratu es tu feratu

[west escarp]

That’s how it goes in the film, yes. Despite Friedrich Harding’s best efforts

[ripe stag]

I am old enough to remember it, yes, but I can't say I've ever seen it.

[wraith sand]

Mmmm, I dunno, I'm not really feeling that meme. It seems to be off by just a hare!

[oak ivy]

I couldnt really get into it

[verbal lintel]

Batman is the only person that can get to Darkseid, and that pisses him off

Superman is at the end of the day just a big ol’ lug that punches Darkseid in the face, and Darkseid punches Superman in the face.
Endlessly.
Locked in stalemate

Batman is consistently the only living being in the entire universe that out-plans Darkseid and foils his machinations. So of course Darkseid is going to personally say, “Oh yes, eff this guy especially!”

[cold sequoia]

depends on the story

[acoustic pewter]

I watched this movie so much as a kid

[west escarp]

No escape even at target from my past

[keen flax]

You are quite literally running from your demons and they are chasing you down 😭

[west escarp]

Yeah 😒

[buoyant scroll]

Should have put a devil's trap down behind you, smh

[frank quail]

The Pitt S1E6 ||You and me both girl||

||... I don't like that they brush off the Torsion's request for a male doctor||

[terse crystal]

||He ultimately did say ok to Collin's since it was just too painful to wait for a male attending ||

[frank quail]

||I know, it all happens very quickly.||

The Pitt S1E6 ||Santos may have the skin of a Rhino, but that Rhino should really see a Dermatologist. I think I can see its veins||

[ionic lily]

https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/fantasy-shows/george-r-r-martin-announces-game-of-thrones-stage-play-the-mad-king-based-on-the-final-years-before-the-events-of-the-novels/

[winged mountain]

IDK what they mean by ‘announces’ but I heard about that years ago

[cold sequoia]

the actual news is that its premiering this year

[velvet oriole]

https://youtu.be/AvOVouXv5UI

Apepi watches random YouTube video
Brando Sando mention.
This man won't allow me to escape from him.

[novel bear]

I watched Mission Impossible 2 tonight

I have never seen another MI movie so I can only judge this one

But I thought this one was genuinely a terrible film

[placid river]

It’s my understanding that this is the consensus among MI fans as well

[ionic lily]

You picked the only bad one

[oak ivy]

Did he do the run

[novel bear]

I didn't pick it

But my friend who did said

"2 and 3 are the low point of the franchise but I'm pretty sure 2 was better than 3"

And after we finished he said "damn maybe I was wrong"

[ionic lily]

wtf

3 was so good

Phillip Seymour Hoffman giving one of the best performances of his career

[inland jetty]

I only know Mission Impossible for three reasons:

• Theme song
• youtube ads for them showing off the lead actor doing practical stunts himself
• Billiam did a video covering them that was modestly interesting but far from his best

[placid river]

“Theme song” and “lead actor doing practical stunts himself” are the two main things to know about it tbh

[empty locust]

100m subs, blackpink, first artist

kpop is a global sensation, huh?

[minor isle]

why didn't you like it

I think it's the worst of the franchise, but it has its charm

[terse crystal]

@minor isle I also think its the worst of the franchise and just a bad movie overall

[minor isle]

It's a bad movie. It's not a terrible movie

It tries to go for a 2 decade old action style

Which is weird but like

has its charm

[terse crystal]

Namely it has a all time famous action director that is forced to edit out violent parts quite significantly (Namely you don't see people actually get shot and the impacts on the body with squibs but just someone shooting and then a shot of the person they are shooting at falling and even a Scene at the beginning where in MI:2 ||Someone neck gets snapped in the prologue of the film but no sound effect of the snapping neck is played so you just get this weirdly silent stage combat thing||)

Its an action film that is helmed by the same dude that made the likes of Hard Boiled, Better Tomorrow, and The Killer but it looks and feels so much lesser compared to both those films as well as the rest of the Mission Impossible Series as a whole

[terse crystal]

yeah lol 2 is the absolute worst possible onboarding to the series

3 isnt great (JJ Abrams's Lens Flare is distractingly noticeable in it) but I enjoyed a good many parts of it enough

[ivory night]

2 is “this movie is insane nonsense but fun”

[terse crystal]

I would honestly say it isnt really fun either

or at least not the type of fun I would want from a MI Movie

[ivory night]

I’d watch 2 over either of the final two films

[terse crystal]

I disagree fundamentally lmao

[ivory night]

Well enjoy tom cruise spending 3 hours getting everybody to tell him how great he is

[minor isle]

Yeah that's what I would say

[minor isle]

I think 3 is really strong

It's where the movie starts to get it identity for me

one thing that's consistent is the antagonist are interesting and great for varying reasons in all of these movies

[terse crystal]

I can appreciate the problems of the last two films but I cant seriously think any action scene from 2 even comes close to what insane stuff goes down in the last two

[topaz oyster]

The submarine sequence in the last film is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series

[terse crystal]

yeah PSH is a big thing that keeps that movie in a good groove

[minor isle]

even in 2, || The Antagonist plan to what he wanted to do with that virus or w/e was p fun ||

damn I am blanking out on details

[terse crystal]

I honestly forget what the bad guy wanted to do in 2

I can get the broad strokes for the rest of the bad guys in the series at the minimum (it helps that 4 of the films have the same bad guy from the previous entry)

[ivory night]

Anyways watch ghost protocol if you’re gonna choose one MI movie to watch

[terse crystal]

yeah that s a really good one off

1st one I think is my favorite

[minor isle]

Mine is either 3,4,5

6 is the best movie out of them but it falls behind in the Mission Impossible aspects of it

[novel bear]

I thought the love triangle it was built around, that felt like the majority of the plot, was unwatchably unpleasant.

[minor isle]

there are || tiny plotholes and inconsistencies in their cons and heists || MI6

[minor isle]

very fair

[ivory night]

I genuinely wish 7-8 had somebody capable of telling Tom Cruise the script sucked

[minor isle]

I liked them

it was a nostalgia trip

I like them when its to a franchise I like

[terse crystal]

I mean thats every Mission Impossible Movie tbf

[ivory night]

4 and 5 were good!

Especially 4!

-# The one where he had the least control

[terse crystal]

Case in Point from Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol:|| https://youtu.be/F5VlzVyOMa8||

[minor isle]

That's what makes them great tho

[ivory night]

It also is less bad when it’s one scene instead of 20 of them.

And also that movie was a crisp 133 minutes

I do wonder how much of my dislike for the last 2 is that they’re just way too long

[minor isle]

|| the whole emotional core of it is "Ethan has every reason to defect. It would be easier if he does that, it would be easier if it "doesn't accept" in the 'should you choose to accept it. But he doesn't. And he doesn't compromise and that decision to be insane is what helps save them because the only person he always compromises is himself" ||

MI

[topaz oyster]

"Movie is long" is basically never a criticism for me

[ivory night]

Mission impossible 7 || so they killed Rebecca Ferguson because she had to go shoot dune right?||

[topaz oyster]

Gotta be like 4+hr before I even really notice runtime

Poorly paced is a different issue, but not actually one I think those last two suffer from too badly

The second one has a recap sequence that's a good 20min long that wildly overstays its welcome

[minor isle]

Well it worked for me

cuz its like a memory lane for people who "stood with the franchise for 20 years" sorta moment

Which wasn't me but I had watched it for good 15 years

I dig those sort of things

[ivory night]

I mean I have been watching them that long I just don’t care about nostalgia

[minor isle]

To each their owdn

I want the endinng to long running stuff to do that sort of thing in varying ways

[topaz oyster]

I didn't think the attempt to "we've been a coherent cinematic universe the whole time" was necessary or even really desirable

[ivory night]

Especially when you introduce an out of nowhere ||fridging backstory|| at the start of 7

[minor isle]

[topaz oyster]

The MI movies are either standalones or come in pairs and beyond that the continuity has always been tenuous, and I don't particularly care to try and follow them through stitching the disjointed plotlines together in the eleventh hour

[minor isle]

I think it works for me
|| After each movie exploring the outwards of Ethan, we are finally exploring him || MI7

[topaz oyster]

That said, they didn't spend too much time on it for me. I had fun, which was The Point

[ivory night]

No no the point was to save the film industry

[minor isle]

?

[ivory night]

It was a whole thing with 7

[spring barn]

Oh man I wanted to get to MI2

[minor isle]

Was it

[ivory night]

Yes

[topaz oyster]

Getting people back into theaters post covid

[spring barn]

Cause John Woo's 1986-1992 run is one of my fav things ever

[minor isle]

Ah

Damn

I didn't know you had like

Smth you liked that much in movies

it wasn't your fav medium

[topaz oyster]

MI2 approaches being a caricature of John Woo sometimes

[spring barn]

yeah cause I had a particularly rough patch

Which ended with one of the worst things I'd ever seen

[minor isle]

Ah so you are findinng things that work for you now

That's nice man

[spring barn]

Then I gave del Toro's Frankenstein a chance and went through his filmography and I'm so back baybee

[ivory night]

It also starts in the most early 2000s way a movie can start

[spring barn]

I've watched like 50 films since then

[minor isle]

I hadn't heard you praising anything other than Frankenstein so didn't know if it was only that movie or other stuff too

[minor isle]

Nice

[spring barn]

Are we allowed to post letterboxd profile links?

[minor isle]

I have had a rough time with movies recently

3 2 stars back to back

[spring barn]

OBAA almost singlehandedly killed my interest in the medium of cinema before that

Everybody else calling it movie of the decade didn't help either

Then I realised I just hate PTA, not movies

[minor isle]

I haven't watched it but everyone I talk to has it that high yea

[spring barn]

It's by far one of the worst things I've ever seen and was the single most miserable time I had in the cinemas despite watching it on IMAX laser with reclining cushioned seats

[minor isle]

Flexing UK movie infrastructure smh

[ivory night]

I thought it was incredible lol

[minor isle]

Mercy, Crime 101, Batman Superman Apocalypse

[ivory night]

I need to watch F1 still

[minor isle]

I guess the latter two were watchable

[minor isle]

I love it

[spring barn]

I liked the editing and blocking of the chase sequence at the end

And ig Benecio was decent

I have nothing else positive to say about it

I could say a lot of things but I think this review is succinct enough

https://letterboxd.com/yasirism/film/one-battle-after-another/1/

[keen flax]

I want to see OBAA so bad

[minor isle]

Your review?

Doesn't look like your writing tho

[spring barn]

Last weekend I tumbled 200m down a snowy mountain and ended completely soaked and one hand I couldn't feel anymore

I'd go through that again than sitting through OBAA

[spring barn]

No

[acoustic pewter]

Hold up, holdup, wha? 2 is awful, but 3 is one of the best in the series. 3 was the real 2 if you just ignore that 2 ever happened.

So I think that's a crazy take on their part, but to each their own

[gray orbit]

What’s y’all’s beginners guide to the twilight zone?

[burnt shale]

Watch random episodes?

[tight dove]

Go on Tower Of Terror at Disney world

[ionic lily]

It’s been changed to Guardians of the Galaxy 😔

[tight dove]

That’s Disneyland not Disneyworld

[ionic lily]

California Adventure actually, but I thought they did Disneyworld’s too

[tight dove]

DCA is within The Disneyland Resort
you can not hope to out pedantic me about Disney/lh

[ionic lily]

You need two tickets, so it’s different parks! Hmph

[lone canyon]

Akotsk up to e2 ||this show really captures the pain of being unemployed and trying to get a reference letter…||

[acoustic pewter]

Hold up, there's still a Tower of Terror?

I had the pleasure of going on it once in 2010, before it was changed to the GotG thing. It was one of the best experiences I had at Disneyland California Adventure.

[empty locust]

apparently frozen 3&4 is in development?

[tight dove]

YEAH IN FLORITDA

sorry caposlock

yeah in florida

[inland jetty]

No, the caps lock is appropriate, traveling to Florida is bad enough to yell about

[acoustic pewter]

No, you see, Jaxxxy was talking about Floritda

[ivory night]

SMH where else can you experience the majesty of a giant fireworks stand across the street from a Publix

[main dew]

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2026/2/23/new-neon-genesis-evangelion-anime-series-in-production

[paper hull]

[main dew]

First, new Evangelion being made with Yoko Taro on writing and Keichi Okabe on music is

[keen flax]

👀👀👀👀👀

[main dew]

But also, Evangelion 3.0+1.0 ||remember when the last movie ending saying GOODBYE EVANGELION and Go Out And Touch Grass For Gods Sake and "Hey here's all the characters living in a world where Evangelion never existed, look how happy they all are" so there's actually a high likelihood I won't watch it||

[dire moss]

I haven't seen the rebuild movies, but with this crew on whatever the new project is maybe I should in prep.

[main dew]

They're good, I like them. Different vibe to the series but still enjoyable

[dire moss]

That lines up with what I've heard. Good to know

[oak ivy]

We are back?

[winged mountain]

have they confirmed whether they intend to use the same characters, or would this be more of a Gundam thing, with Evas in another place and time?

[terse crystal]

odd review. Doesnt seem to say really much about the movie itself

[dusk hound]

Normalize CBM directors reading comics

[silver bronze]

Knight of the Seven Kingdoms e6||yeah, this is a great show overall. Can't really say how good of an adaptation since it's been forever since i read the book but i've heard people praise it. Only weird thing is Gwen Ashford showing up to tell Dunk she doesnt blame him for the trial, felt a bit abrupt, and Egg leaving without his father allowing him to go. Wonder what kind of tension that will create next season||

KotSK e6||oh and i guess the show has hard confirmation that Ser Arlann never knighted Dunk since we get a flashback to his death and Dunk asking why he wasn't knighted. It was kinda obvious enough even in the book||

[cold sequoia]

||the flashback isn't technically to his death, just to a time close to it. Arlann *could * have knighted Dunk after that flashback (although I don't think he did)||

[silver bronze]

||fair, but i think Dunk asking the question is meant to communicate that Arlann never knighted him, even if there technically was still time||

[terse crystal]

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-frankenstein-criterion-collection-1236670172/

K-pop demon hunter in Criterion

lmao

[small quarry]

what's Criterion?

[terse crystal]

Boutique Movie Publisher that brings movies (everything from old Classic Movies to Contemporary Movies but usually the Former) from around the world into a physical format to buy

[small quarry]

oh i see, thanks!

[terse crystal]

https://www.criterion.com/

[west escarp]

They also like to do promos where they lock* actors in a literal closet with DVDs and don’t let them out until they’ve made a short video explaining the selections they’ve made

*hire actors to be filmed in

[terse crystal]

Me and the Boys when the Criterion Van comes to town:

https://klipy.com/gifs/heat-heat1995-9

[frank quail]

Sounds like a more hostile version of "Desert Island Discs" (a British radio interview show where the conceit is the Interviewee is picking a couple of albums they would bring is stranded on an island)

[spring barn]

Also with a guy whose fav film is del Toro's Frankenstein

Gonna preorder it MINUTE 1

[terse crystal]

tbf Del Toro seems to have clauses in his films where he can get the rights to publish his films wherever

because like a good chunk of his stuff is on Criterion

[dusk hound]

https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2026030890829193537?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Ryan Coogler's ‘X-FILES’ series has greenlit for a pilot at Hulu
︀︀
︀︀• Coogler will write & direct the pilot
︀︀
︀︀• Danielle Deadwyler will officially star
︀︀
︀︀• Follows 2 vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division

**💬 60 🔁 118 ❤️ 850 👁️ 18.4K **

FxTwitter · Feb 23, 2026, 8:26 PM

[west escarp]

So is she the Mulder of the pair or the Scully

[topaz oyster]

Is this the fourth X-Files revival or the fifth

Part of me is like "yes of course, X-Files is a seminal part of television history, of course they keep trying to go back to that well" and another part of me is like "this show is way too 90s and the meta plot was never actually supposed to go anywhere stop trying to make this happen"

[cold sequoia]

Is this the IVth X-Files revival or the Vth

[cold sequoia]

I think that the general concept of "skeptic and believer deal with supernatural happenings" is pretty much an evergreen premise and could work just fine in modern streaming's environment with a long term mystery that's revealed over the course of the season

[frank quail]

The Pitt S1E11 / All ||Halfway through the episode. The one major spoiler left from YT shorts is Mckay being saved from the police because "she just worked the worst mass casualty event in recent history", and every mention of PittFest has me biting my nails ||

||aaand there's the other shoe||

[placid river]

The 10-Files

[turbid narwhal]

I watched inside llewyn Davis and I really enjoyed it

I was surprised at how good Oscar Isaac is at singing

[cold sequoia]

really liked it, lives in a similar place to A Serious Man imo so I'd recommend that if you haven't seen it

[turbid narwhal]

Yeah I’m going through the Coen brothers movies since I’ve only seen a few but I’ll check that out next

||the scene where they sing the song about space was so funny to watch, there’s a Tim Robinson sketch that I’m now convinced is based on that scene||

[cold sequoia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isL94TjfZos

[turbid narwhal]

It’s a real song?

😭

[cold sequoia]

it's based on a real song yeah

I think this was the first time I saw Adam Driver in a comic role

it is only a matter of time before he gets cast in a benoit blanc movie

[turbid narwhal]

Does megalopolis count as a comedic role?

But yeah he’s great in the movie too

[cold sequoia]

https://klipy.com/gifs/adam-driver-megalopolis

[turbid narwhal]

Justin timberlake was too tbh

[cold sequoia]

Timberlake has this and the Social Network on his imdb which is a better filmography than like 99% of actors

[turbid narwhal]

I wanted to see what he did after and it was the trolls movie

[cold sequoia]

the Coen Brothers need to make another musical film

[turbid narwhal]

Are they still making movies together?

I saw Ethan made that movie with Charlie day and Aubrey plaza

[cold sequoia]

I don't think they are currently no

[frank quail]

The Pitt S1E14 ||God it's a good thing Santos lost RPS for the blankets||

[buoyant scroll]

I, what https://vxtwitter.com/discussingfilm/status/2026052964180197716?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

A new episode of ‘THE ROOKIE’ will prominently feature the cast of ‘GAME CHANGER’, a competition series from Dropout.

Episode Description — “Harper and Miles feel the weight of their recent mistakes, while Harper is tasked with training Miles. Nolan and Celina are dispatched to a robbery call at the Dropout TV Studios where Nolan encounters a familiar face.”

vxTwitter / fixvx · Feb 23, 2026, 9:54 PM

[cold sequoia]

from what little I have seen, this is a great game changer bit

[frank quail]

finished the pitt S1
... I'm going to need a day or two before I catch up on S2, that was a lot

[turbid narwhal]

AKOTSK e6 ||GRRM subliminal messaging. Winds 2027||

[dusk hound]

This post brought to you by Brandon Sanderson

[turbid narwhal]

AKOTSK e6 + Hedge knight ||I enjoyed the episode but I really don’t like the change with Maekar not sending Egg willingly, I think it cheapens Maekars character imo||

[dusk hound]

You guys know I’ve never watched Game of Thrones

Ever

I mean like I’ve seen clips and stuff

But never actually watched it

I’ve never even read a ASOIAF book

[turbid narwhal]

I’d give the books a try, the first two aren’t my favourite but the last 3 are something special

[dusk hound]

Only if George finishes WoW

I’ve been considering watching AKOTSK

[ionic lily]

Remember, WoW isn’t going to be the last book

There’s another one planned after

[dusk hound]

I completely forgot about that

Yeah he ain’t ever finishing that

[dusk hound]

Especially as somebody who has never seen GoT anything, I wonder how I’d react to it

[cobalt onyx]

KotSK 6 ||TBH, the way Dunk asked why Arlann never knighted him led me to conclude that it wasn't a flashback so much as a daydream/meditation. After all, it wasn't "Why don't you knight me?".||

[cold sequoia]

||I think that's a valid read but imo Dunk said that because he'd reached the understanding that he'd never get knighted by Arlann ||

[silver oyster]

starting Knight of the Seven Kingdoms!
e1 ||The pooping scene was a tonal shift if I ever saw one, yuck. And the first scenes were quite emotional for an opening. I'll see where this goes, I guess||

[lone canyon]

Please god let it happen

[dusky bane]

Major spoilers for all of AKOTSK, ASOIAF, and events that will happen in HOTD s3 ||2026 will be the year of two dark haired Targaryen deaths and one dark haired Targaryen revival. Jace and Baelor died so Jon can live||

[empty locust]

I've been watching a lot of xmen content recently

I hope they play a big role in doomsday

both the future generation and young generation actors

[winged mountain]

The first three books are a mostly satisfying story arc, probably a more satisfying resting point than Wind and Truth, though the next two books are kind of a mess a lot of people like them for what they are

I'm not convinced that George finishing Winds to his satisfaction would even reach that level, anyway

[molten jetty]

This is so funny

[dusky bane]

AKOTSK ep6 ||I really, really loved the scene between Egg and Maekar. No words yet so much meaning. I can’t believe they found a 9 year old this good at acting||

[molten jetty]

ASOIAF is so good it has to be finished

[dusky bane]

You should, it’s great and I don’t think you need to see Thrones to get it

[oak ivy]

Well

[cobalt onyx]

There's a little bit of setting detail that'd be useful to have, but yeah, for the most part AKotSK can probably be fully enjoyed without reading/watching any other GRRM.

ASoiAF general ||And by a little, I mean literally like "There is a continent called Westeros that was comprised of 7 Kingdoms, until the Targaryen family crossed the ocean and conquered the continent with dragons. Those dragons have now been extinct for a couple generations."||

[silver bronze]

Winds of Winter spoilers ||its so funny to me that GRRM recently confirmed that Jon will be alive in Winds because he wrote a blogpost about writing Winds and said "sometimes i write a Tyrion or Jon chapter and later rewrite them". Like, it's been a theory since he died but the slipup is still funny||

[winged mountain]

WoW ||it's been soft confirmed for years, even before the show, but I think there was a genuine question about whether we'd ever get his viewpoint again. Though it's always possible there could be a Jon Connington misdirect||

[cold sequoia]

Winds ||I like the theory that his body gets stolen by the Others which is how they get past the wall (he gives them permission as Lord Commander) and until his mind (which is inside of Ghost as we know happens to skinchangers) gets back into his body we don't get a POV chapter||

[lone canyon]

Winds ||I think Bran or Melisandre will bring him back while he’s warged into Ghost||

||Mel giving him the Kiss of Life (if she is also undead) and all of Stannis’ fanatic followers defecting to Jon would be kinda funny||

[cold sequoia]

Winds ||I think both will have a hand in it (Bran from afar) but I think that Jons body will be up and doing things before he's taken out of Ghost||

[lone canyon]

||ohhhh that would be funny||

|| “oh hey Jon’s back… wait what” would be a very troll move||

||I think Euron will be the one to bring down the wall tho||

[cold sequoia]

Winds ||yeah another possibility is that Winds ends with Euron on top of the tower in Oldtown blowing the horn and "seeing" the wall come down (possibly due to the red comet striking it)||

[winged mountain]

Winds ||I used to very much suspect this, though the way George speaks these days, in conjunction with what the show did, makes me feel less inclined to expect it||

Winds ||I'm also not really convinced that Jon's orders as Lord Commander would be obeyed at this point||

[silver bronze]

Winds|| idk that would mean like half the book is without Jon PoV. Also the Others crossing the Wall during Winds seems super fast paced. I think itll happen at the end maybe||

[cold sequoia]

||I think it's more of a magic thing and it's not like Jon would be the first undead Lord Commander||

[winged mountain]

Winds ||Honestly for a while I was expecting 100% of the book without Jon as POV, I thought it was a distinct possibility George wasn't bringing him back until the end, though you'd see Ghost around||

[cold sequoia]

Winds + show ||I think that Euron's horn blowing bringing down the wall is the closest analogue to what happens in the show with the undead dragon||

[silver bronze]

Winds/GoT||kinda funny how the show brought him back basically immediately and with no big consequences (a life for a life/ the Others making a move)||

[winged mountain]

GoT ||'Hey Melisandre, you don't happen to know Revive, do you?" "Not.... wait a minute, yeah, lemme try that"||

[sacred vapor]

https://youtu.be/tKGhxMi50y8

The Backrooms trailer (Kane Pixels/Parsons movie with A24)

[cold sequoia]

Winds + show ||I can see the argument that Jon is in the best position to be revived "fully" because it'd be like a resurrection of ice and fire rather than just fire (like Beric Dondarrion) or just ice (like the wights) ||

[silver bronze]

GoT||and Jon was mostly fine except for a bit of shellshock from dying. Nothing like Dondarrion||

[cold sequoia]

||but there still need to be more consequences than what we got in the show||

[lone canyon]

Winds ||my theory is that the ending of Winds will be “big battle with Euron + he blows the horn + Shireen gets burned + wall comes down”||

[silver bronze]

Winds+Show ||in the show Jon executes the conspirators but im half expecting the Wildlings to do that in the book and that creates tension with the Watch||

[cold sequoia]

||I think Dany will also do something magic related||

[silver bronze]

Winds+Show||Do you think she will unite the Dothraki like in the show? Maybe by imtimidation via Drogon?||

[lone canyon]

Winds ||I think the watch is gonna massacre itself before Jon comes back lol||

[lone canyon]

||shes going to Vaes Dothrak and Volantis for sure||

[cold sequoia]

||I think she goes to Vaes Dothrak and releases the Dosh khaleen and uses them to run the freed cities||

[silver bronze]

AKotSK|| Egg on my face i guess i really thought this confirmed Dunk wasnt knighted
https://x.com/i/status/2026286501865107714 ||

Jon Snow (@LordSnow)

'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' showrunner Ira Parker says George R.R. Martin told him not to confirm whether Dunk was knighted by Ser Arlan

"At that moment, Dunk had never been knighted by Ser Arlan. He says, “Why did you never knight me?” And then, Ser Arlan dies, and we

X · Feb 24, 2026, 1:22 PM

[winged mountain]

I still haven't watched AKOTSK but I'm considering watching it on a long airplane ride

[runic pollen]

I have seen a loooot of people think that too

[spring barn]

It's just 3h

Well 3h10mins with the first ep being a bit longer ig

Still much shorter a lot of movies

[dusk hound]

Oh no https://x.com/i/status/2026410508937535938

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Warner Bros has revealed that Paramount's new offer could lead to a superior proposal than their current deal with Netflix.

Paramount has now offered to buy the studio at $31/share.

X · Feb 24, 2026, 9:34 PM

[west escarp]

Nooooooo

WBs don’t!!!

[dusk hound]

I find it so weird because WB has already practically agreed to the Netflix deal

[lucid haven]

Won't you think of their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders

[turbid laurel]

What about the stock holders, Bob?! Who is helping them out?

[winged mountain]

There’s a 3 billion breakup fee owed to Netflix if they switch to the Paramount offer, which Paramount is paying as a part of their offer

[burnt shale]

Importantly I think its also likely that the shareholder believe that netflix stock would be worth considerably more long term

[cold sequoia]

The Netflix WB offer was all cash so why would this matter?

as far as I can tell the Paramount off is also all cash

so I don't see how the stock price of netflix matters to WB shareholders

[turbid narwhal]

A serious man ||Just a soul crushing movie. I liked it just a tiny bit more than Inside Llewyn Davis just because I think I found Larry a bit more relatable. The movie does a great job in showing just how absurd Larry's life is and that him trying to be "a serious man" is really pointless. I think it's interesting that with this movie Larry is a passive watcher in his own life who doesn't really make any decisions for himself and that's why his life is crumbling whereas with Llewyn he makes the wrong decision every time||

Michael Stuhlbarg was great

[cold sequoia]

||I really like it, from what I have read apparently it's got some significant added depth for people familiar with jewish philosophy and theology||

[turbid narwhal]

||yeah, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the opening scene||

[cold sequoia]

have you seen Raising Arizona?

if you are on a Coen Brother's kick that's a good change of pace from this one and Llewyn Davis

[turbid narwhal]

yeah i definitely plan to watch that

really liked hudsucker proxy and big lebowski so their comedic style works for me

speaking of, it's kinda crazy that a serious man is labeled as a comedy-drama

[ivory night]

A lot of their stuff gets described as black comedy

[turbid narwhal]

something like burn after reading I get but with this one it was just a sad movie

[dusk hound]

I’m rewatching Invincible in prep for season 4 and, Invincible all ||OH MY GOD I CANT STAND EVE’S DAD HOLY CRAP I HATE HIMMMM||

||Dude just blatantly says the most sexist things imaginable and thinks Eve still wants to talk to him||

[west escarp]

The Queer Eye money and fame must be running out because I’m see candy crush knockoff adds staring Tan French

[molten jetty]

@oak ivy Her arc as a content creator is the best

[oak ivy]

She will review what people yell at her to

Im surprised it took this long tbh

[ionic lily]

Are we sure she doesn’t read this server

[molten jetty]

She’s a huge One Piece fan which was so funny to see develop

[oak ivy]

Do people still feel as strongly about KDH as when it released

In terms of quality

[molten jetty]

She went from an average Fantasy Tuber content wise to down for everything

[keen flax]

nods furiously :3

[distant birch]

I still feel positively about KDH. I imagine I'd feel more strongly so if I rewatched it, coz its been a while since I thought about it

[keen flax]

In fact, ill listen to all the songs for the 71st time actually 🥴

[gritty sierra]

still enormously positive... not sure what was supposed to change

[frank quail]

Time away from the hype train I expect

[full wolf]

Yeah, I still think it's a completely fantastic movie and the songs still haven't come out of my favorites playlist

I'm not watching it obsessively like I did when it originally came out, but I think that has more to do with me having ruthlessly squeezed every drop of dopamine out of it I could get and needing to move on to something else eventually rather than like, the shine wearing off

[runic pollen]

Her every time she falls in love with something different.

Damn it this doesn't fall in line with the theme of the channel.

And thus happens multiple times.

She went from reading 1 manga to many.

Tried to create a vlog channel.

Changed the books channel to manga channel and the vlog channel to book channel.

Starts Star Wars and now KDH.

At somepoint it is best to realise that you gotta make your channel a "reviewing whatever you are liking"

[naive mica]

Some things I suppose don't always age well, but KDH is definitely not one of those things.

[full wolf]

I think it's one of those things where part of what makes it so compelling is you can see it was a labor of love from everyone who worked on it

Especially in a sea of profit-driven cash grabs, seeing something that's unapologetically committed to a premise that many people were probably dismissive of as silly or weird is so refreshing

[lucid haven]

thats why imo the spiderman animated movies hit so hard as well

it was just you could see the passion

[full wolf]

Part of why KDH shines is because they didn't phone in a single minute of it

Yeah, the spiderverse movies are similar for sure

[lucid haven]

in every scene and every frame you can feel how much human passion and attention to detail and love

[full wolf]

Sony animation puts its whole chest into its movies!

[lucid haven]

from the sound design to the artistic choices to the voice acting

everything is peak

i really love KDH even as someone who dosent like a lot of the kpop world cause its not my vibe

i can get behind KDH

[naive mica]

It's also a fantastic demonstration of how to do emotional storytelling well. The core themes of the movie are informed by the creators' own experiences and deeply authentic, but also interpretive and resonant with audiences of many different experiences.

[full wolf]

Also, I think, a testament to simple storytelling too. It's not a narrative that's super twisty or even particularly original but it's done with a lot of heart and that makes it compelling too

[lucid haven]

its also not something thats super unpredictable

like i could figgure out most of the story beats relativly early and i think its something someone like brandon knows well too

it feels good sometimes to be able to predict things

[wise epoch]

ITS A SCREAM BABY

[frank quail]

The Pitt S2E6 ||I can't believe Louie just died like that ||

[red nacelle]

Ngl the english dub narrator convinced me to eventually watch it

[burnt shale]

the dub narrator is funny but i strongly reccomend not watching Dub first its an entirely different vibe

[red nacelle]

Oh ok valid

Hellsing Ultimate and Panty and Stocking put me on watching dubs first tbh 😅

[burnt shale]

I do one epsiode one each to judge but yeah those are two of the best dubs

[midnight compass]

Don't listen to Gneiss you can watch the dub first

[red nacelle]

Cosmic is preparing an essay 😀

[midnight compass]

I've watched the dub three times now and read the manga, you'll be perfectly fine and the dub narrator is unhinged in a way that doesn't exist in the sub or manga

[red nacelle]

The duality of man 🤭

[keen flax]

Well it is black history month and id be remissed if I didnt recommend any black comedies 👀

• Martin
• living single (my favorite)
• my wife and kids
• the Wayans bros
• Im Gonna Git You, Sucka (Wayans family movie, its hilarious)
• fresh prince of bel air
• the proud family (animated, but still a comedy. The reboot also holds the spirit of the show really well)
• In Living Color (skit show like SNL but waaaaay funnier imo, also from the Wayans family 😂)
• Moesha (more of a drama but still has funny parts)
• Thats so Raven (Disney show. More for kids but I remember liking it a bunch... but of course I did, you know me 😂)
• Abbott Elementary (new and HILARIOUS)

For right now im pretty sure thats it 🤔

[red nacelle]

Thank you so much!!!! I needed to lock in with black media this month. I grew up with proud family, fresh prince of bel air, and that’s so raven!! 😂

You know ball good ma’am 👀👀

[keen flax]

Omg see youre already in there! But if thats the case I 1000000% recommend every single Wayans family movie and show, they have not missed

Thank you thank you 🥴

[lucid haven]

I haven't watched it yet but this has to be a wild video

https://youtu.be/RuuyCOnuBDA

[red nacelle]

Gonna trust your word and start there thank you thank you

[red nacelle]

You’re welcome bestie 🥴

[muted solar]

-# Insecure!

I think it counts at least

[keen flax]

Yes it does! I just haven't seen it but my mother approves, so nice pick 😁

[inland jetty]

I got curious and checked ebay just earlier today actually, and it turns out you can buy a Puzzle the Pelican for pretty cheap (the prices ranged from 10-50, and the finish on some of them seemed different, so its likely a mold that gets reused by different companies buying them to slap their own name on)

(Search term was "Pelican bowl")

[turbid narwhal]

raising arizona

||You're not just telling us what we want to hear?"
"No, sir, no way."
"'Cause we just want to hear the truth."
"Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear."
"Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"
"Yes, sir."
"Okay, then."||

very funny movie

[red nacelle]

Been slacking baaaad with my hobbies ngl

I’ve been watching a long anime and finished a book last month, so it’s a start hehe

Trying to finish The Way of Kings by March

[verbal lintel]

Cosmic, how could you make this list and leave out ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ ?
For shame!

[keen flax]

Okay I purposely didnt add that one because as funny as it is, everyone in that damn show pisses me off 🤣

especially Tanya omg 😭

So like youre gonna laugh but be prepared to be mad at everyone except Greg 💀

OH WAIT I DID FORGET ONE

Thanks arvon for reminding me of Abbot Elementary

[keen flax]

Okay hard pivot but i need to yap

MK2 MOVIE IS COMING IN MAY AAHHHHH IM SO HYPE

Now ill be even happier because I get to watch Toranaga sama say Scorpion Lines, my Shogun heart is happy 😋

Same weekend as Devil Wears Prada 2 (which also looks amazing)

[red nacelle]

I haven’t watched it in ages except for youtube shorts, but I get the struggle 🤣 some shows be like that

[lucid haven]

Please please please for anyone reading this. Just always ping me. I cant see that you have replied to me 2 and a half hours ago unless you ping me or I check the channel

[red nacelle]

Judging from clips, for me it’s Rochelle 😭

[lucid haven]

Just ping me

[red nacelle]

I watched the first season and some of season 2, it’s so funny. Fav ep was probably the halloween one with baby thanos

[red nacelle]

I got you 🫡

[lucid haven]

Thanks

[inland jetty]

I didn't ping you because I don't like being pinged for replies and I didn't think it was enough of an addition to the conversation to warrent a ping despite that

(ping replies do feel weirdly divisive, everyone has a different opinion and its always a strong one)

[dusk hound]

I actually have an idea for this

I’ll bring it to #17s

[frank quail]

The Pitt S2E7 ||Is it just me, or has Javadi learnt nothing about talking to patients and family?||

[dusk hound]

Oh no https://x.com/everythingdcu_/status/2026760206085140581?s=46&t=AVWLdN9Ds3VNK10NCJdfHw

Everything_DCU (@EverythingDCU_)

Hannah Christine Shetler (Lurker) has been cast in LANTERNS!

X · Feb 25, 2026, 8:44 PM

Oh nononononono

Nonononono

NONONO

Keep her away from Hal please

At all costs

For context: there was this Lantern that Hal dated in the comics way back when, her name was Arisia, and um… let’s just say she was on the younger side

I assume that’s who this girl is playing

If not then she looks a HELL of a lot like her

[placid river]

I can’t find any source for this lol

Except for IMDB which isn’t super reliable

But if there is any truth to this, IMDB says she’s playing “Maggie”, so probably not Arisia

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/2026858663541932374?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘SMILING FRIENDS’ is ending.

2 unreleased episodes will be released in the future and then the series will be over.

X · Feb 26, 2026, 3:15 AM

[willow fjord]

So, I just watched Weapons, anyone seen it?

I am not really a horror guy but it was a good movie

||the way it was structured where they replay the events of those days with new POVs, and each new POV filling in a piece of the puzzle was very cool||

||I also appreciate how great it was at building suspense, and it was very well shot and acted all around||

[buoyant scroll]

Bloody love it

||God the way it balances comedy and horror and the just, pure emotional catharsis of the end||

[willow fjord]

I am really curious about ||Gladys's backstory. I heard theyre making a prequel about her rn which I am definitely gonna see||

Oh, I wanted to talk about the characters too

||Justine kind of had me ded because shes like "I just care about the kids wellbeing a lot", and I think that is true. But then she goes and straight up stalks Alex home and tries to force her way into his house 💀 like maam, you are NOT beating the "inappropriate conduct" allegations||

But hey, is it really a horror movie if your MC(s) arent incredibly stupid at times? I think not lol

[red nacelle]

I’ve been grieving for the past hour 😭💔

[main dew]

Both Weapons and Barbarian ||I have found an incredible appreciation for these horror movies with insanely cathartic endings. Turns out, the fresh new take on horror we needed was "what if the monster is defeated in the most humiliating way possible, mostly through their own fault"||

||I cannot describe my raucous cackle watching those 20 kids chase that old lady through mid-breakfast suburban America. The one shot where she runs through the garden, goes through the gate, closes the gate behind her and then kids just explode out the fence around the gate had me on the floor||

[willow fjord]

Agreed, that scene was glorious

[civic trellis]

Same tag ||Honestly, beats the whole "everyone loses and the happiest ending we can hope for is one character being traumatized for the rest of their life (which will be short cause the monster is still here, quelle surprise)"||

[dusk hound]

Guess who might FINALLY start watching Smallville

Crazy how I consider myself a Superman fan and I’ve never watched that show

[west escarp]

It’s not good

[dusk hound]

I’ll be the judge of that ok

[frank quail]

smeg. When I finished The Pitt last night, I was still in binge mode.
No one told me I had caught up 😭

||Right before the series' crisis as well. This is the worst||

[craggy birch]

I loved Smallville back in the day. Would love to know if it holds up (or if it doesn't but is still a fun watch)

[topaz oyster]

Aren't you a Supernatural Enjoyer

[west escarp]

Supernatural is also not good

Famously so

[crystal brook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uRj0cST_PQ

OPLA s2 ||"And you thought we were gonna skip loguetown" ||

[winged mountain]

A coworker at a job I worked at 15-ish years ago was a huge smallville fan

I had gripes with the show from time to time but it was overall solid, really enjoyed Rosenbaum's lex

haven't watched a moment of it since it ended though

I'm pretty sure I stopped watching once Rosenbaum left but watched the finale standalone just for the heck of it

[molten jetty]

OPLA ||Loguetown is actually so important lol||

[dusk hound]

Oh https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2027135173444206764

philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_)

NEW YORK (AP) — Warner deems Paramount's takeover bid superior to Netflix; Netflix has 4 business days to counter.

X · Feb 26, 2026, 9:34 PM

Oh it’s over

It’s over

It’s so over

[lucid haven]

[dusk hound]

I doubt Netflix counters too

[winged mountain]

IIRC Netflix has indicated they don't intend to

[dusk hound]

They’re just gonna walk away

[winged mountain]

their current offer is their best and they get $3 billion for the trouble if WB goes to Paramount

[dusk hound]

Paramount has way too much debt too

Like WAY too much

[winged mountain]

oh yeah this is gonna be absolutely brutal for WB, which is still recovering from the last time this happened [Discovery]

[dusk hound]

It’s just gonna be the Discovery merger all over again

[winged mountain]

shareholders get paid so they don't have to care

[dusk hound]

They’ll sell in another couple years

[winged mountain]

there's also the matter of regulatory approval, Netflix taking the free 3 billion must make all kinds of sense

[sacred slate]

I look forward to Jon Oliver attacking the hand that attempts to muzzle him even more.

I do not look forward to the state of media over the next few years.

[dusk hound]

Just when DC movies were starting to get good too

The DCU might actually be cooked beyond oblivion

[gray orbit]

Like James Gunn please have good choices on who the write

[turbid narwhal]

Don’t see why Netflix won’t just match the offer

The Netflix merger agreement remains in effect, and the Board continues to recommend in favor of the Netflix transaction and has not withdrawn or modified its recommendation.

[cold sequoia]

Yeah I think they can stomach a couple more dollars per share

Paramount isnt playing with entirely its own money but I would be surprised if it had much more to offer

[turbid narwhal]

https://x.com/variety/status/2027154285813764421?s=46

Variety (@Variety)

It's Over: Netflix Declines to Raise Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery https://t.co/cVDkzl2u4W

X · Feb 26, 2026, 10:50 PM

Nvm

[gray orbit]

Paramount does wanna takeover more news lines

[cold sequoia]

Oh I thought that was old news

[turbid narwhal]

Ellison has CBS and CNN now

[ivory night]

Oracle is in trouble though

[gray orbit]

We thought Netflix would take over until paramount had a tantrum and cried for a different offer

[cold sequoia]

I would guess this results in some further splits

Like skydance-paramount-wb and cbs-discovery or something

Someone is getting saddled with a bunch of paramount debt

[fair dirge]

lol

They surrendered so quickly

[cold sequoia]

Wouldn't be surprised if Netflix was informed of regulatory problems if they pursued the deal further

[fair dirge]

Nah, it didn't seem to suit them either; I think Paramount made an offer that was out of their reach

[gray orbit]

Like 80billion more

[cold sequoia]

Netflix absolutely had the money to match it

[turbid narwhal]

Wouldn’t be surprised if paramount is completely crippled by the amount of debt they’re taking on in just a few years

[fair dirge]

Having the money is one thing, but it's quite another to know if it's in your best interest to spend so much on it

[gray orbit]

It’s also the ftc that fought Netflix before paramount made a bigger offer

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/sushichaeng-reaction-drinking-drinking-wine-shade-gif-20924464

[cold sequoia]

I think you misread something, the entire deal is about $80b

They didnt raise the cost by $80b

[gray orbit]

They would be in debt forever

[small quarry]

arent they already

[gray orbit]

They made money for
Primate

(Fun and meh horror movie for me and I saw it on my bday in a amc)

[cold sequoia]

Interestingly both Netflix and Paramount saw a spike in share price at the news

[dusk hound]

Yeah

It’s like

Mega over

This is really crappy

[fair dirge]

I must say that I found it more interesting to see what Netflix would do with WB

[turbid narwhal]

Bill Maher as the new lead editor at CNN

[dusk hound]

This is completely awful for everyone involved

[fair dirge]

I don't remember where I saw it, but Netflix said that although they could have matched the offer, they decided to maintain financial discipline.

[dusk hound]

I’ll be interested to see how this effects DC

This is just completely horrible

[fair dirge]

I think most large companies have it, even countries, but Netflix manages its debt very well; I think it went down 7% last year.

[midnight compass]

Why is this so bad?

Beyond just monopolization being stupid

[fair dirge]

Wasn't Paramount the one who started the MCU?

[cold sequoia]

The guy in charge of Paramount is comically evil

[midnight compass]

Oh dear

[cold sequoia]

Granted so have previous people in charge of WB

[cold sequoia]

Not Paramount Skydance, they did marvel stuff under Viacom

[silver bronze]

who is Paramount buying?

[gray orbit]

Warner

[fair dirge]

I recently saw the first Avengers movie and their logo appeared at the beginning, old times

[midnight compass]

Evil as in does creepy stuff or as in terrible business practices?

[cold sequoia]

The first avengers movie came out before the skydance merger

[gray orbit]

Skydance got nostalgic movies like top gun and mission impossible

[cold sequoia]

Both

[gray orbit]

Along with a animation district with John lasseter

[fair dirge]

Oh right, it's a conglomerate

[cold sequoia]

Paramount was owned by Viacom when they did marvel movies

[midnight compass]

Joy

[gray orbit]

Where John fired the first director for luck because of a good premise and he hired another Disney director who was bad to work with

[fair dirge]

I wonder what Paramount will do with WB

[cold sequoia]

Probably merge the movie studios

[fair dirge]

I had an idea about Netflix, but I've never seen anything else on Paramount besides South Park, lol

[dusk hound]

Would not be surprised if Gunn is out after Man of Tomorrow

[cold sequoia]

Idk why that would be the case

[fair dirge]

I don't think they'll do that

[cold sequoia]

If DC continues to make successful movies then they will probably be left alone

Warner Bros was bought for their properties

[fair dirge]

Look, we also have to think with our heads. If Gunn brings in money, then they keep him on, and so far he has been

[fair dirge]

Will they do something with the Looney Tunes?

[cold sequoia]

Probably, they are a valuable brand still

[dusk hound]

Paramount is an evil company, I have no reason to believe they wouldn’t

Gunn’s contract is until early 2027

There’s a likely chance they won’t renew

[fair dirge]

Oh please, if Paramount is evil, then all millionaires are evil too. They just want to make more money; if they think it will make them more cash, then they'll do it. It's not about being evil

And if it's as you say, Gunn must prove that with him at the helm, his DC universe is profitable, and so far, he's doing well

[hushed moss]

From what I’ve seen, it doesn’t appear that Paramount and Ellison are particularly interested in the IP’s that WB has either way. So I think they will mostly leave stuff like the DCU alone. They are after the news orgs and shareholder value. Which is worst in my opinion.

[cold sequoia]

If they were just interested in news they could have just bought that part because afaik Netflix wasnt buying those

[hushed moss]

I don’t mean they are not interested in everything else. But that is what Ellison wants most.