Media (General)

[novel bear]

You have to take an active interest in the matter from a perspective of being very aware of online fandoms or invested in trans issues, which the average not online person is not

AI is not comparable to that because its omnipresence, and while huge amount of the public think "wow, cool AI is a chatbot" very large amounts of the public also do have associations of slop with it. To repeat the point I already said: This is distinct from many boycotts because it isn't exclusively about indirect matters regarding production processes or who profits in the end. Lots of people dislike AI simply because it's slop.

Also boycotts don't universally fail and some things are very much worth boycotting and we should still make an effort on

[winged mountain]

Lots of people dislike AI simply because it's slop.
I agree with this, but maybe not in the way you might think. Because I think the people who feel this way may not be as opposed to AI once it reaches the point where you would genuinely struggle to tell the difference, which is has in some realms

[lone canyon]

https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/public-opinion

looking at this, it seems that AI usage has 55% approval and rising- in comparison, Nestle has 66% approval which is not hugely higher, nobody associates it with high quality products, its scandals are extremely well known and yet boycots have consistently failed since the 1970s

[winged mountain]

like, if there's a quality control issue, if it looks bad, absolutely people will stay away, for that reason. But not necessarily because of a fundamental problem with the way the sausage is made

there are certainly people who would stay away for those fundamental reason, but that set of people is smaller

[gritty sierra]

looking up success and failures for AI data centres would be more useful tbh

[novel bear]

I don't think AI's capability of making things indistinguishable from what's real is as important to this as people generally say, and I'd say it's for the most part been at that point anyway for a long time. The problem with AI is not that it inherently makes things that are bad (although it does), but that by existing so you can lazily get a quick result without putting effort into craft, it consistently leads to low quality results because the prompters do not care about quality. AI will continue to be slop because it exists for the use case of making slop, and will keep being used to make slop.

[gritty sierra]

taking a swing at popularity numbers off a quick search isn't super compelling

[dusky flint]

boycotts wont even do anything because the problem is capitalism not some individual product

[lone canyon]

that's kinda the point I was trying to make, that the real opposition to AI expansion comes from community opposition to building data centers, not getting consumers to avoid it

[winged mountain]

I think the fallacy here is that 'many people use it to make slop' does not necessarily mean 'it can only be used to make slop'

[novel bear]

Nestle is a food company, that's a much harder thing to boycott

[gritty sierra]

it's all part of the same movement, i don't see the point in making this distinction

[winged mountain]

you could define 'slop' in a way to make that case but it's beside the point

[novel bear]

At no point did I imply that the former is the reason for the latter

The latter is, in fact, the reason for the former

I think it can only be used to make slop because when it comes to any creative field, what actually creates works of quality is the choices made in the process itself, which requires direct manipulation of the elements of the medium itself. This is something AI is fundamentally unsuited for. It's as much a matter of human behavior and how brains engage in the process of making art, as it is with the technology of LLMs.

[lone canyon]

i don't think that's the same as the definition of slop most people use though, slop means "low quality" most of the time

[novel bear]

I fail to see how that distinction is relevant to my point

[novel bear]

I obviously don't disagree that opposing data center is a core and central part of it, and my point is not to argue that a boycott of consumption of AI products will singlehandedly succeed at taking down AI companies. My point is that I don't think that consumers choosing to avoid AI products is just an irrelevant factor because that's a boycott and boycotts always fail (which they don't, anyway). Boycotts do increase pressure which compounds with other parts of the effort, and a lot of anti-AI consumer behaviors are real, affect the revenue of the companies involved, and are a matter of overall anti-AI sentiments, not a motivated boycott spurred by online people shouting about it.

[lone canyon]

because you're trying to say "AI is disliked it produces slop" but jmc said "it's also used to produce not slop", but your argument is now "everything AI produces is definitionally slop"

[novel bear]

I have yet to see a single example of good art made by AI

It is slop both definitionally and empirically

[winged mountain]

there's a lot of work that needs to go into, for example, film production special effects, that is inherently not creative in any way, and where any sort of creativity is unwelcome, and work is done for-hire by third party contractors based on some material and direction by the studio. If the computer can deliver as advertised and without mistakes, there are absolutely uses where I wouldn't use the word 'slop'

[novel bear]

I would easily use the word slop for that

If it can be replaced by AI, it is most likely already slop to begin with

[winged mountain]

okay but you're sort of rendering the word meaningless then

[novel bear]

Not really

[winged mountain]

that work is fundamentally required to make, say, any Marvel movie. You could call any Marvel movie slop, if you wanted to. But it's just beside the point

[novel bear]

Special effects requires a lot of technical work in the background, but that doesn't make it not overall creative. There are creative visions behind how the end result is meant to look. There are special effects experts who make really cool effects simply out of pure passion even if it's going beyond what the director requested. It's absolutely creative work. And if a film production does not care about those elements, and just wants generic looking effects, then yeah, it probably is an uncreative studio-driven rather than creative-driven work, and I don't think it's unusual to call that kind of thing slop.

[winged mountain]

not every little component of art needs to be art

[lone canyon]

tbc i don't think AI companies will go down, nor do I want them to, at least not moreso than other tech companies. AI has some very real applications- the current hype is very much a bubble though and I do think it will pop, as the costs of AI become less justifiable

[lone canyon]

you can call something like the mcu slop (and i'd agree with you) but its slop that makes 1 billion so obviously there is demand for it

[novel bear]

Right, so it's not art

[lone canyon]

so is it okay then if a movie replaces CGI or animators with AI? since the technical work doesn't count as art

[novel bear]

Opposite of my point

If you use AI then that aspect ceases to be art

[lone canyon]

if it looks the same or only slightly worse, i don't think consumers will care

[frail mulch]

should we distinguish between machine learning and generative AI at this point? because if you're talking about reducing technical time like lighting rendering, I think that's different than generating animations

[novel bear]

I hope that every single AI use case that you personally use specifically becomes no longer available to you when the AI companies go down

It'll build character

[lone canyon]

some of my AI uses are bad but others are very good and important for society (grad school)

[winged mountain]

that's sort of where I started, like there are going to be aspects of it where people tolerate it, and aspects people don't, and I suppose for those aspects people tolerate or like, they'll just use a different phrase

[frail mulch]

in my work meeting this morning the devs talked about how their AI usage (copilot I think?) is now per token instead of whatever it was and my boss quipped to a junior dev to maybe spend less of them on writing emails. It sounds like that guy was using it to summarize his blocks of code for end users and then manually editing to make them shorter because he said they got wordy... which I can kinda see, but I think it's a good skill to be able to summarize your work for a non-technical person

inside thought that I did not say: my long emails are bespoke brain droppings with no digital input

[novel bear]

I'm fine with explosives being used to carve paths through mountains to build canals and train lines, and I'm not fine with explosives being dropped on hospitals, even though they're both explosives. I don't think that making these distinctions is an indication of hypocrisy or anything. There are meaningful differences that are the causes of why some things are tolerated and others are not.

[winged mountain]

that's fine? But that point is that when people like the outcome, they'll be fine with the technology. When the outcome looks bad, they'll dislike the technology. It's not any deeper, it's not any more fundamental than that

[novel bear]

I don't disagree with that statement, and frankly I'm not sure which part of my statements you think that statement is going against

[dusky flint]

Its in petit bourgeoises interest as a class generally to be anti AI so i wouldnt be surprised if anti AI wins out

[frail mulch]

I was paywalled on the NYT article so I found the Variety one re: Scorsese, and it sounds like he was testing out tools for storyboarding

so when it's something like that for preproduction- like I think he's ultimately still coming up with the plot and dialogue, but maybe it's like doing a randomizer on "make me a set for these characters to walk in"? https://variety.com/2026/film/news/martin-scorsese-supports-ai-company-storyboard-movies-1236765037/

oh I see aaks already talked about this earlier re: like, digital mood boards

[frank quail]

nevermind the fact that concept artist is a real job

everyday I feel more empathy for the luddites

[novel bear]

I think it's depressing in part because it's missing the point of creative collaboration

No one person can do every job involved in making a film, but communication is inherently imperfect, so you have to find ways to bridge that gap, and enjoy the fact that people will come up with their own ideas based off of your words rather than give you exactly the thing you had in your head. They'll probably come up with something more interesting anyway since it's their area of expertise.

To say you need AI to storyboard the visions in your head is essentially just to say you're a super special auteur with the one core vision and nobody else's contributions matter

[naive mica]

It's a real job, and it's also one of those starter jobs that are good on-ramps into the industry.

[molten jetty]

When AI is being used to stop creative thinking or processing, it is inherently damaging. Say people keep using AI to draft emails, then they become untrained in those essential skills of communication and are overly reliant on a technology that may vanish.

People should put in work and time for themselves so they can learn and grow

And yeah, if you are using AI to storyboard things then you are not thinking yourself, you are off-loading the burden of thought and are lazy

[dusky flint]

idealism icl

[molten jetty]

Call me an idealist, idc. People should put in the work themselves.

When people no longer work for themselves, they lose the ability to think for themselves critically

[dusky flint]

So true labour is the source of all wealth and culture

[molten jetty]

That's not what I said

Brains are dynamic. We adapt to the challenges we face. A life without challenges is a life without growth. Someone who never has to think (because AI does it for you) will adapt to be unable to think.

That is the very real danger of offloading creative or critical thought onto a machine

[runic pollen]

What is lassale?

[dusky flint]

forgot what server this is damn it

[lone canyon]

I don’t really have an issue with a highly skilled person like Scorsese using AI for efficiency, because I assume he knows what he wants and he knows what quality work is. The issue is with students who don’t know what they want, don’t know what’s good or bad, and also need to learn but use AI to cheat themselves

[naive mica]

Yeah I think focusing on the end product (wealth, culture, etc. ) does burry the ledde a bit. It sucks because that's the focus of our capitalistic society, our productivity and products.

[molten jetty]

What is the end of this though? What good is possibly attained when the very cost is the ability of most of society to freely think?

[naive mica]

Imo a better world is one where we do things for the sake of doing them.

[molten jetty]

Wealth and culture come about not necessarily because of labor but because of luck. You can labor away and never see what you might have worked for. But… in not working or thinking you surrender the learning process of overcoming challenges and you become easier to control. That’s how I think about it at least.

[lone canyon]

I think AI reveals a deeper issue though which is that fundamentally a lot of humans don’t enjoy the act of labour and don’t value it as a good in and of itself

[naive mica]

Also he's denying others the chance to work with him and improve and develop their own skills. Imo that's a rather selfish way for him to go about it, again focusing on the end result (his storyboards) and not the process of actually making the storyboards.

[molten jetty]

I don’t think enjoyment of labour should be seen as the end, but the result of the labour should be. It’s not about enjoyment, it’s about learning and growing.

But hey, that's the brilliance of the trap that is AI. People will want to cheat to offset the burden from themselves. They want it to be easier and to not put in the labor or effort or process. If they can skip from A to Z, why learn the alphabet?
It's undeniable though that if you lose the ability to do things yourself, you are relinquishing skill and knowledge. You are allowing elites to hold power over you. It's a convenient gilded cage and society is walking right in.

Sorry I'll stop 🫡

[lone canyon]

I don’t mean enjoyment in the “ohh this is so fun” sense, I mean they don’t find fulfilment in labour

[dusky flint]

i was saying thinking that all wealth and culture come from labour as an insult

[molten jetty]

I understood that

[lone canyon]

Well someone’s labour is lmao

[molten jetty]

I think it's similar to going to the gym. It might not inherently feel fulfilling to do a workout, but the impacts on your body and mental health are very positive.

[lone canyon]

Genuinely feels like we’re too used to pleasure on demand

[oak ivy]

Yes and no

Different types of enjoyment are appropriate at different times

You need a healthy balance

[gray orbit]

Next week

[winged mountain]

my local theater was scheduled to stop showing Obsession after tomorrow but I'm guessing they'll extend it since NBC postponed the digital release

(it's a big theater, plenty of screens)

[gray orbit]

That sucks. My local theater doesn’t even show obsession entirely when it released (it’s a Cmx that’s in a shopping center)

[civic trellis]

doesn't show it entirely meaning like, it cuts off part of the movie?

[winged mountain]

I assume they meant 'didn't show it at all'

[civic trellis]

ooh, okay

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/zoesupreme/818340547441885184/well-the-thing-is-thats-an-extremely-reasonable

the Roger Ebert of basketball girlblogging

well the thing is that's an extremely reasonable concern

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[naive mica]

Pattinson is never escaping the unfathomably based allegations.

[west escarp]

He’s learned the hard way about being in bad movies and how it impacts your career

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-the-skin-of-a-killer-this-is-twilight-diamond-gif-7357078274143669220

[frank quail]

IDK, he seems to be doing pretty well for it

[west escarp]

Well he is now. But in 2013? Not so much

Also it took Kristen Stewart a while to launch her directing career and Taylor Lautner hasn’t been regularly employed as an actor since Breaking Dawn Pt 2

[crystal brook]

I mean his name might not have been big or popular as an actor but he also had infinite money to just go and choose whatever wacky job he wanted

[frank quail]

the Radcliffe approach

[cold sequoia]

I wonder if he asked to read Tenet's script beforehand

if not, that may have been a learning moment for him

[cold sequoia]

I'm glad hes growing as a person

[turbid narwhal]

should've just watched a "tenet explained" video like everyone else smh

[heavy anchor]

This is all assuming it's supposed to make sense
Which I am of the opinion that it is not

[spring barn]

I second making GDT the new Absolute Cinema guy

ignore the fact that he's my fav director

[dusk hound]

Alright ladies and gents

Who wants more Man of Tomorrow set photos

This time of Lex Luthor in his armor

Video of the armor moving around, can barely see anything but looks amazing

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/blazeofbones/752034729069592576/happy-pride-month

Paula ⫩

Happy Pride Month

-# #star trek tos #star trek the original series #star trek #leonard mccoy #jim kirk #leonard bones mccoy #james kirk #deforest kelley #william shatner #bisexual #bisexual pride #pride month

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[sacred slate]

https://www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06/amazon-axed-new-stargate-series/

Oh well...

[gritty sierra]

rippppppppppppp

[topaz oyster]

I wonder if this is a stray caught from Mando and Grogu's performance

[winged mountain]

I’m not sure if they would be quite that reactionary, it might not have helped but there were probably other concerns

Sounds like they worried the audience was going to be too narrow

That’s an impression that will probably scare Expanse fans, like there’s no way the last arc will get picked up unless they can convince Amazon they can sell it to people who aren’t Expanse fans

[lucid haven]

dam

rip

[sacred slate]

I feel like the language here points to them doing all the right things for what I would want in a show but that is always a risk. Given the current state of things I could see them having issues with it from multiple directions depending on exactly how they tackled it.

[lone canyon]

He’s genuinely so funny

[lone canyon]

S/o to the one Star Trek episode which boldly asked “what if a conventionally attractive woman wanted to have heterosexual sex with Riker but it was illegal?”

[dusk hound]

Got a MUCH more clearer shot of Lex on the MoT set

In his power armor

||https://fxtwitter.com/nickbeest9/status/2062006276935106832?s=20||

nick wright (@nickbeest9)

man of tomorrow filming at the fox theater in atl #manoftomorrow #nicholashoult #dcu

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[forest wigeon]

SO much color

[dusk hound]

Genuinely amazing how stuff like that gets made

[distant birch]

oh I love how hard they committed to that

really looks like the promo art

I love how bulky and colourful it is

[dusk hound]

Made by Legacy Effects

Same people who made the power armor in the Fallout show IIRC

[forest wigeon]

It looks very goofy, but I assume the color grading will smooth that over

I think most movies look bad if you just look at pictures/videos of the set

[acoustic pewter]

I suggested him first because he's one of the loudest anti-AI voices in the entertainment industry I know of. But also because he's an incredible filmmaker who's frequently responsible for ABSOLUTE CINEMA in his own right.

[runic pollen]

I love how now the ABSOLUTE CINEMA guy is now pro AI himself

[acoustic pewter]

That circles back to why I was saying that to begin with. It's because of that that I think GDT should be the guy for that instead from now on.

[green fjord]

Welp, I reckon that pretty much kills the potential of the franchise coming back in any lasting way for the foreseeable future. :/ Maybe they'll make something, probably a reboot, maybe it will even be good, who knows? But the core fan base is going to be extremely bitter about this, and a reboot of an old franchise has an uphill climb to get positive attention regardless.

[spring barn]

I had a petty grudge with Scorsese ever since I learned how The Departed won best picture despite being a remake of Infernal Affairs which wasn't even nominated for international film

so this is a bit of Schadenfreude cause I found The Departed to completely piss on the soul and themes of Infernal Affairs and yet get more acclaimed

[sacred slate]

Yeah, and the thing is I don't know what the worry about broad appeal would be?

Stargate: deep space nine Atlantis Station would work just fine too.

I almost fear they didn't like the continued evolution of the series that government is messy and full of bad/bad-faith actors... Which I think would have a great appeal these days...

Now I fear we are going to get "oops a teenager found the Stargate" or something.

Maybe "a teenager found a ship and collects a crew of friends" which could work as it's a successful formula. But we are already getting a Skyward adaptation so I don't see a need for that either.

[lone canyon]

Franchises with “Star” in their name dying 😭

[oak ivy]

Isnt star trek on hold?

[west escarp]

No

All Star Trek shows have been canceled and they’re only making and then airing the already contracted for seasons

Then no more Star Trek for the foreseeable future

[cold sequoia]

it's on paramont+ right now, I guess it might go to hbo eventually in some unified streaming service

never heard of hold, who owns that?

[forest wigeon]

I think it's just the english phrase "on hold"

As in, postponed

[molten jetty]

Corporations: “surely this means people hate sci fi”

[cold sequoia]

maybe hold is some european streaming service

[lone canyon]

Star Trek is owned by the Ellisons 😭 😭 😭

It also got taken off Netflix 😭 😭 😭

[oak ivy]

RIP

[lone canyon]

I’m actually so mad about that

[green fjord]

Any major show is an expensive risk, and worries about reaching a big enough audience are always at least somewhat well-founded, though the show was being written specifically as a jumping on point for new watchers. New execs always want to make their own mark though, without much context of why decisions were made before, and with the execs who were championing the show gone…

It’s still a very bad decision if they actually want to do anything with the franchise. A reboot in the first place would have been disappointing, but I reckon a fair chunk of the fan base would have given it a chance. But after announcing and then cancelling this? They’ve strongly alienated the existing fan base and reaching a wider audience would still be a big uncertainty with any reboot. Obviously the online fan base paying attention to things in development is a minority of total viewers, but they do help set the tone around things.

[sacred slate]

I need an Orvillized parody that turns into the real thing I guess. It's a formula I know would work and just a bit of distance might improve it.

I don't want them to make the mistakes of seasons 9-10 of SG1 where they try to recreate the dynamics of the team with the cast of farscape.

[lone canyon]

i hope they make a stellaris show and its just every star related franchised mashed into one

trekwarsgate crossover

[wet quest]

Orville is soooooo good. I love that show so much

Truly a great example of making fun of a franchise with love

[burnt shale]

It was intresting I feel like over Covid every late 90s early 2000 sci-fi got approved for a reboot and then got dropped

[burnt shale]

Oh wow I kinda disagree I think those were some of the best team dynamics

[green fjord]

The dynamic in S9-10 was different, but I enjoyed it. After eight seasons I think I'm good with a refreshed team dynamic. 😅

[trail cloak]

SAURON

[lone canyon]

Just watched the final supergirl trailer

Unfortunately it looks lowkey bad

[sacred slate]

It's not that I didn't like it but I have issues with reboots, or forced continuations trying to keep the same type of team makeup rather than truly changing things up.

I also have structural issues with those seasons that I think the casting choices did not help with.

[lone canyon]

Supergirl feels like female Star Lord

[dusk hound]

I think it looks great

I think they’ve just dropped the ball with marketing

[lone canyon]

The colour palate etc look uninteresting and supergirl in the trailer seems like someone combined every action hero girlboss with every quirky-depressed James Gunn protagonist

[dusk hound]

I think Supergirl being an action hero girlboss is a good thing

And she’s very obviously not gonna be depressed the whole movie

[winged mountain]

I do intend to see Supergirl but I can imagine the movie struggling a bit, it's a crowded summer

[gritty sierra]

I like the look and feel of Supergirl a lot, that is not starlord coded

[dusk hound]

I’ve read the comic and yes, I’m disappointed with the palette they decided to go with for the movie, but I think it still looks visually interesting

I feel like it was always gonna be a losing game with the visuals

NOTHING, and I mean literally NOTHING in live action can compare to Bilquis Evely’s art

It’s why I think a LOT of comic stuff needs to be in animation

[lone canyon]

There’s nothing to make it stand out from the blur of 2015 marvel movies tbh

[dusk hound]

Comic adaptations should primarily be animated

I will stand by this

[lone canyon]

I know Millie Alcock is a fantastic actor but her character and presentation feel so uninspired

[gritty sierra]

starlord vibes are inseparable from chris pratt vibes for one, and for two, my god there HAS to be room for multiple kinds of unconventional heroes without them all getting put in a pile with the stylings of Chris Pratt. she doesn't even come off like any kind of loser, just someone angry and throwing her life away

[lone canyon]

It feels like a shot for shot captain marvel remake at points

[gritty sierra]

girl failure, maybe

[dusk hound]

Like she’s very obviously not going to be angry and depressed the whole movie

[lone canyon]

The quirky vice ridden failure with a secret traumatic backstory and a heart of gold has just been done before so many times

[novel bear]

Has it

[dusk hound]

Well I mean that’s just what Supergirl is in the comics

She’s a quirky character, with a heart of gold, and a tragic backstory

[lone canyon]

Starlord, every character in TSS except Peacemaker, even Thor lowkey became that

[gritty sierra]

as opposed to what kind of character trope

[novel bear]

i haven't seen TSS but I don't think Starlord or Thor are comparable here

[gritty sierra]

what's been underdone and why should that be Supergirl instead

[lone canyon]

I don’t know but it doesn’t feel like supergirl has anything original to add

[midnight compass]

I like girlfailure Supergirl 🥺

[gritty sierra]

and the personality is SO different from captain marvel, i don't see any similarities except they're blonde women?

[novel bear]

summing them up as "vice-ridden" is imo conflating more straightforwardly comedic characters like Starlord, whose flaws are mostly there to be Haha Relatable, with how Supergirl has struck me like a more sincere (while still comedic) depiction of someone genuinely troubled and a mess

[lone canyon]

Oh I meant the cinematography

[gritty sierra]

I don't see what you see

[novel bear]

Starlord isn't portrayed like he's truly in a bad spot in his life, he's chilling and having fun

[midnight compass]

Though my favorite part of the new Superman is probably Krypto being a chaos gremlin because that's how my own dog is

[topaz oyster]

I wouldn't feel comfortable passing judgment on this one way or the other until the movie is actually out

[dusk hound]

Honestly that’s my take

I’m waiting till the movie comes out

I’ve been avoiding a lot of the recent TV spots, I don’t want to be spoiled

[novel bear]

I think Superman stood out as a movie for its sincerity and straightforwardness in comparison to the irreverent quippyness of what the MCU became, and I think Supergirl gives me the sense that, hopefully, it'll provide a counterpoint to that with her flaws mirroring Superman's perfection, while still working toward the same sincere thematic point

Time will tell if it does it well

But it certainly strikes me as something new and worthwhile to do, for current superhero movies

[gritty sierra]

yeah I vibe with that

[dusk hound]

Superman to me had that spark that a lot of CBMs have been missing recently

[lone canyon]

The movie might turn out to be great but the marketing isn’t selling it

[dusk hound]

WB’s marketing just sucks unfortunately

A lot of movies rely on good word of mouth nowadays to do good in the box office

[gritty sierra]

for me that's true. i've only gone to movies weeks into their runs if i hear they're getting LOTS of good responses

[topaz oyster]

Almost as if the marketing has strayed into a potent mix of untrustworthy and full of spoilers that ruin the experience

That both are true is somewhat paradoxical but here we are

[gritty sierra]

i used to go to the theatre all the time in college and for a time after, often just by myself just because i wanted to see something. now a theatre trip is too expensive to be anything other than a social occasion, and i see things with my siblings

[lone canyon]

Captain Marvel + supergirl trailer ||the train scene reminded me a lot of the captain marvel scene, just vibes wise and because there’s nothing really interesting going on stunts wise so it’s just “fight on a train”||

[gritty sierra]

PHM, Superman, and Barbie are probably the last things i saw in theatres in that order

reverse order

[gritty sierra]

i still don't see it. it just feels like saying, they're both action scenes so they're the same! but like...

[stoic falcon]

That's so peak!

[frank quail]

almost as though "normal" adverts are no where near as useful as the appearance of grassroots popularity in the era of social media

[trail cloak]

yeaaaaaah

tomorrow I'll start Arkham Asylum

[stoic falcon]

noice

[frank quail]

*era of streaming

era of not-trad-TV really

[lone canyon]

I will say Clayface trailer was legit peak

[minor isle]

with how wild theatre prices are in US and etc, I am not surprise people are less inclined to go

my PHM ticket cost 1.85 dollars

[dusk hound]

Absolutely

That movie looks great

[minor isle]

which is like
1 day's meal for me

[gray orbit]

My obsession tickets costed 8$ each on amc app

[gray orbit]

For a total of 22$

[dusk hound]

I think it’s like the first ever time we’ve a horror comic book movie too?

[gritty sierra]

that's crazy

@ the movie ticket prices

[minor isle]

at 8 usd, I can get for 4 people and also get popcorn

okay maybe not exacly popcorn for all

[gritty sierra]

I'd almost certainly go more if that was the cost!

[minor isle]

it would be 10 usd

last time I went with family

[minor isle]

and even cheaper at certain days!

well it's just 1.63 from 1.83

[gritty sierra]

also the clayface trailer was very hype, pretty unbelievable. but that's also the difference in genre, scary movie trailers can still hit these days. current guys cutting THOSE trailers I guess :P

[gray orbit]

It’s for the amc stubs Tuesday deal so I had to act fast

Where it’s 50% off

[minor isle]

well we don't get good movies as much as yall do

like even Obsession is barely coming here 3 weeks later

[gray orbit]

I didn’t get amazing movies when I went to amc for my bday other than Marty supreme

But I Chose primate

[wise epoch]

Wrong channel

[gray orbit]

What?

[minor isle]

he posted smth

then realized he meant to post on anime channel

[wise epoch]

Yee

[gray orbit]

Oh.

[dim hill]

I'm so hyped for Supergirl ngl. Woman of Tomorrow is one of my favorite comics

[keen flax]

Idk how to feel about it! I do like kara but hmm... superman didnt change my life the way it did others apparently 🤣

Sp im sure thisll also be a good superhero film imo

[dim hill]

I mean its just refreshing to have comic accurate DC characters again lol

[keen flax]

That is definitely true!

That part makes me elated

[dim hill]

Mmmhm

[minor isle]

superman didn't change my life either, and wasn't the best cbm that month but it was a joyful movie

filled me with joy

[hushed moss]

While the Supergirl trailers have been ||very brown planet, I have seen marketing that confirms they are doing the others and that they will all be visually distinct.||

[turbid narwhal]

Which was the other one?

[minor isle]

fantastic four

it's my fav mcu movie probably

[wet quest]

"The supergirl trailers look boring"
Uhh, did y'all miss the puppy? There's a puppy! Look! Cute puppy!

[gray orbit]

I liked the comic. And

[wet quest]

Favorite page from Woman of Tomorrow. I am every character on this page at once

[wide stag]

Why is this IGN channel posting a video with resolution from the 90s?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGh7-SVdyY

[ionic lily]

One of my favorite musicals

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/captainmandrakes/817263961929039872/behold-a-crossover-i-made-up-in-my-head

🪓

behold a crossover i made up in my head

-# #film #the thing #alien #aliens #invasion of the body snatchers #the thing 1982 #alien 1979 #invasion of the body snatchers 1978

Tumblr · May 21, 2026, 10:47 PM

[distant birch]

As much as I am skeptical about some of the things in the supergirl trailers, I enjoy her characterisation enough that it will easily carry the movie for me if it has to

[cosmic dock]

Who's the guy on the left?

[west escarp]

Matthew Bennell, the lead character in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

[spring barn]

I don't mind Supergirl but it did reminds me too much of GOTG both tonally and visually

(I hate GOTG)

ok maybe the last one was wathcable

[winged mountain]

I suppose I liked GOTG (and Suicide Squad The for that matter), so I'm certainly gonna watch this

[lone canyon]

I liked gotg2 a lot but haven’t watched gotg3

Tss was fun too

I’m just not sure I need more of it

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/spacebeans-art/818006311035977728/rocky-have-sharpie-bath-incident

like a vision in a crystal ball

rocky have sharpie bath incident

-# #shitpost #phm #project hail mary #rocky phm #my art #homestuck #sharpie bath

Tumblr · May 30, 2026, 3:26 AM

[dusky flint]

I HATE ADI SHANKAR I HATE ADI SHANKAR I HATE ADI SHANKR

also hes one hellf oa person to talk about secretly loathing the source mateiral

[distant birch]

"I am a generational talent" wut

I dont know who this person is but that seems a bit much

[keen flax]

It is, and im the biggest Castlevania + Nocture glazer out there 😭

[dusky flint]

Hes not a good director either

hes horrible

[dusky flint]

Especially when you put out the DMC SHOW of all things

utter insanity

[keen flax]

Yeah all of my friends who have played the games cannot STAND the show 😂

I think id like it a lot because i havent played DMC but I want to

[dusky flint]

i DNFed it

[keen flax]

And I love castlevania + especially nocturne but I've talked to people who've played the games not like them

[dusky flint]

its honeslty not even a good show

outside of being so horrible to the source

[oak ivy]

I broadly liked DMC the show. Pretty self contained. Castlevania into that show is impressive. Self congratulating yourself on Facebook is less advisable.

[keen flax]

I DID NOT PEEP THAT HE WROTE THAT HIMSELF 😭

Oh that makes that post so much worse 💀

[lone canyon]

i know adi shankar more from people hating on him on social media than anything he's actually done lmao

[buoyant scroll]

https://bsky.app/profile/stirpicus.bsky.social/post/3mngsbu7t2s27

eric stirpe (@stirpicus.bsky.social)

4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker.

Turned out alright.

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Bluesky · Jun 4, 2026, 4:34 AM

[topaz oyster]

I don't know who this is but it does not at all surprise me that you hate this person

[verbal lintel]

This is the person who writes and directs the (very hated) Netflix Devil May Cry show

Nick will activate an unskippable cutscene on how bad it is if he were here

[lone canyon]

I feel like I might’ve heard of his existence from Nick actually

[keen flax]

This man has made nick so angry, I feel so bad but its zo funny 😭

[oak ivy]

actual rent free

[dusky flint]

Nick is right

i hate that

i cannot put int owrods

how much

i just

hate adi shankar

[oak ivy]

Idk he just made some shows you dont like

Hate seems a little strong

[dusky flint]

you cannot believe how much hatred i have the DMC show and his smug little attitude

[placid river]

Adi Shankar is an idiot who deserves the hate

And I like the Castlevania show

One of the biggest narcissists I’ve ever seen

He said he was making a Duke Nukem show (not sure if that’s actually happening or not) and then started tweeting at the actual developers of the games saying “your games aren’t canon, my show is canon now”

[acoustic pewter]

Publicly proclaiming yourself a generational talent is kind of icky. I'd think this was excessive glazing if it was someone else, but how full of it do you have to be to glaze yourself like this? 🤮

I don't even follow the source material being talked about, I'm just put off by this guy being so narcissistic.

[acoustic pewter]

This is so wholesome ❤️

When I first saw the Backrooms movie, I left the theater feeling very disturbed and uncomfortable, as I knew I should have been from a movie like that. But ever since then, I've reflected further and been thinking about just how good that movie was and how I just want to see it again.

I've been following Kane's stuff since 2022, and I'm really happy for how far he's made it.

[dusky flint]

hes not a generational talent when hes one of theworst showrunners to hit TV in a decade

[dusk hound]

What in the helly hell

Dude I don’t care if you’re Christopher Nolan

NOBODY should have that much ego

[dusky flint]

bringing up nolan of all people is funny for this

but

if it was like tarkovsky sure

itd be fine

but ADI SHANKAR

[minor isle]

Is it only me who thinks this might be sarcastic

Adi's post

[dusky flint]

its not

hes a huge egotistical asshole

with no idea on how to run a show

who deserves to be blacklisted

[dusk hound]

Doesn’t he also hang out with not good people too

[dusky flint]

that too i guess

[acoustic pewter]

Huh. Every word I hear about this guy makes him grate on me even more.

In that case, better to just ignore him, I think.

[trail cloak]

Bag 2 of Arkham Asylum

[wet quest]

Having been on the internet for a while, this feels like the kind of post where you can double down if everyone reacts positively or say, "y'all it was just sarcastic, you fell for the bit" if everyone reacts positively

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/lesbiansforboromir/187050253623/couldnt-find-it-so-i-made-another-because-youre

Denethor and Finduilas are t4t

🔁 garashir

hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?

lesbiansforboromir

Couldn’t find it so I made another because you’re right that it’s a crime and it’s definitely my duty to remedy it

-# #boromir #chats

Tumblr · Aug 16, 2019, 1:24 PM

[wet quest]

I saw Backrooms yesterday and I gotta say, I would not have done things the same way Clark (the main character) did

For starters, ||I would have walked into the Backrooms and immediately checked the opposite wall to the breaker box to see what was up with the weirdly positioned breakers.||

[muted solar]

I need to watch Obsession and Backrooms. I’m so curious about them. No idea what they’re about so I plan to go in blind

I wonder if I could do back to back showings on Tuesday 🤔

[keen flax]

I might go see it sunday

Maybe

Im seeing TADC finale tonight though WOOO

[lone canyon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/s/HPdxUPHybP

I’m looking at supergirl numbers and they say break-even point is 315 mil worldwide on a budget of 175 mil but that can’t be right can it?

2.5x of 175 is 438

[wet quest]

Marketting's been kinda low, so maybe that's why? Idk, I don't really trust any of the numbers studios say

[lone canyon]

Well the lack of marketing is true LOL

[wet quest]

There's a pretty girl and a dog, so I'm sold I don't need any more marketting

[frank quail]

Supergirl is out?

I expected to see more thirsting screaming from Ryan

[gray orbit]

No just tickets

[verbal lintel]

Today Masters of the Universe movie goes live in theaters

-# My favorite Destiny 2 Characters!

[lone canyon]

no, they're trying to predict box office numbers based on pre-sales

[topaz oyster]

IIRC its normally ~2x not 2.5x, which is about what we see here

[lone canyon]

it's 2.5x for international box office, i think

[oak ivy]

Ive seen 2.5 recently

[topaz oyster]

2x is a longstanding rule of thumb, if that's changing its likely OP hasn't heard it either

[naive mica]

Damn that color matching on the stickers is bad.

[naive mica]

#ReleasetheTomChristieCut

[hushed moss]

New clip from Supergirl || https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9s-m1wIyt0&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D&ra=m||

||Supes is such a dork||

[lone canyon]

anthony head (giles in buffy the vampire slayer) has died

these past few years have been terrible for the buffy cast

[noble pilot]

I was full on crashing out

[dusky flint]

i get it me too

i hate that dumbass DMC show

[oak ivy]

Masters of the Universe is somehow really really good

[dusk hound]

Don’t know how many of you are on Letterboxd but https://boxd.it/3Ae6d

Drop me a lil follow

Starting to use this a lot more to log films

[gray orbit]

I am https://boxd.it/2JyBT

Been using it since 2021

[gray orbit]

Also you gotta log all 5 of the other films you have if you watched em

Made that mistake now I use my diary as my log

[verbal lintel]

This is what I am hearing a lot of

Somehow the curse of Jared Leto is broken?

[oak ivy]

i mean lets see the box office before saying that

[oak ivy]

started one recently

https://letterboxd.com/bruhhowmanyname/

roast my taste idk

only have rated things seen since the profile was made

and spiderverse bc that is obvious

[gray orbit]

You don’t have bad taste (yet)

[dusk hound]

Same

[gray orbit]

Also I got 3 days till I see this!

Welcome to Letterboxd @dusk hound and @oak ivy

Hope you enjoy making your personal film diaries on here

[turbid narwhal]

I don’t use Letterboxd much but I really like the lists feature

[oak ivy]

i just rate things, i am less interested in recording everything

also is there a similar site for tv shows?

[gray orbit]

Only 1 and it’s called serialized

[lone canyon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/buffy/s/QypYpnn9BT

[turbid laurel]

:(

He was likely the next Buffy main cast member to pass away just based on age, but I didn’t expect him to pass away for another 10 or 20 years

[dusk hound]

Rewatching Daredevil Born Again and you know what

I feel like a Nightwing show in this style would go unbelievably hard

[topaz oyster]

I imagine you've seen that godforsaken Titans show?

That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think "live action Nightwing"

[minor isle]

Only good thing was || Batman casting ||s1 end

[topaz oyster]

Oh I couldn't disagree more

Titans ||Worst Batman to ever play the role, not close||

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/imi-mimimoo/791518842254950400/she-diva-fied-him

imi_mimimoo

She diva-fied him...

-# #kpop demon hunters #kpdh #zoey kpdh #derpy tiger #huntrix #kpdh fanart

Tumblr · Aug 10, 2025, 6:39 PM

[dusk hound]

Alrighty but we can do better than that

[topaz oyster]

Very much harder to do worse

But they can find a way to do that too

[dusk hound]

Just find the guys who did Netflix Daredevil

[distant birch]

ive been so bad with maintaining consistent interest in movies/tv lately

I keep starting movies and not finishing them

[minor isle]

In any medium* lately

🏃‍♂️

[distant birch]

I have been very good with books thank you 😔

that seems to have come at the cost of everything else though

[distant birch]

Challengers ~half way ||This is the guy from Wake Up Dead Man? How is this the same dude from Wake Up Dead Man||

[lone canyon]

I watched backrooms

Good movie

Cannot give an accurate rating because I spent 50% of it staring at my boyfriends shoulder

[gray orbit]

I’ve been hearing good things and people hating the movie because

“It isn’t like my Roblox game!”

[west escarp]

Rewatch while spending less time eyeing up the boyfriend

[lone canyon]

It was scary 😭 😭 😭

[gray orbit]

Scary means good

[lone canyon]

I can pretty much only watch scary movies with my boyfriend

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/JamesGunn/status/2063275142172590152?s=20

James Gunn (@JamesGunn)

Inside the Fortress. #Superman

X · Jun 6, 2026, 3:01 PM

I know I’ve said it like 500 times but

David Corenswet is literally Superman

Like this is PERFECT casting dude

They genuinely ripped Superman from the comics and made him real

[west escarp]

I still like Christopher Reeve best

But Corenswet is the best since him by far

[dusk hound]

Oh for sure

I don’t think any Superman casting for the rest of time will come close to Reeve

[minor isle]

No love for Superman and Lois supes

[dusk hound]

He’s for sure my favorite live action TV Superman

[west escarp]

Mine was Dean Cain. Open to new ones

[dusk hound]

WE MOVE https://x.com/homeofdcu/status/2063289552404422864?s=20

Home of DCU (@homeofdcu)

Kira Snyder [The Handmaid's Tale] and Janet Lin [Bridgerton] are officially listed as the writers behind the Paradise Lost series.

A huge sign that development is nearing completion.

First reported by @ApocHorseman

(via https://t.co/eLHQNrICvb | https://t.co/AAG2k6wkYa)

X · Jun 6, 2026, 3:58 PM

[minor isle]

Huh

okayyy....

[lone canyon]

i've seen clips of this and it looks super good lol

[dusk hound]

https://tenor.com/view/lynda-carter-transformation-wonder-woman-hot-beautiful-gif-20015445

[west escarp]

Linda Carter was so pretty

[keen flax]

An og diva 😌💖

[oak ivy]

She really just ran around looking like that

Power move

[frank quail]

THAT'S WHY TOO MANY COOKS DOES THAT!

[keen flax]

I wanna watch the actual show because ww84 is an actual disgrace to movies as a whole

[west escarp]

It was fun but ok. I suggest not trying to binge it, as the plots get repetitive

[keen flax]

Ahh i see

[west escarp]

I used to record reruns of every superhero tv show, live action or cartoon, and watch them after school

[keen flax]

Awww

Does this include or exclude Randall Cunningham 9th grade Ninja

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/F92PBS8pYvc?si=IvwsbOePN7NKoM6y

Exclude. I was focusing on DC & Marvel

Never found a rerun of the 1990s flash show or the 1950s Superman show tho. Guess those didn’t make it into syndication

[cosmic dock]

I assume this Paradise Lost is not the one about Satan's fall from Grace?

[dusk hound]

It is not

It’s a prequel show about the Amazons in the DC Universe before Diana came along

[cosmic dock]

Ah

[spring barn]

He looks like he's gonna put some dirt in my eyes

Is he?

Oh no he isn't Maguire

RIP

[dusky flint]

this is so so so good

oh my god

i watched it recently

I have some criticisms from how it looks at history pesrpective but its an amazing show

[burnt shale]

There’s an among us tv show coming out?

[keen flax]

Theres an among us tv show out now!

[oak ivy]

@novel bear one of the craziest quotes i have seen if you think about it

hey guys what if we wrote the film first

[topaz oyster]

Nah that's stupid

Gotta have several years of CGI hemming you in with no other script to work with

That's how real art gets made

[oak ivy]

im imagining tom holland walking onto a nolan project going wait, ive only been in slop, actually

needs to be spoilered

[west escarp]

Spider-Man nwh

[dusk hound]

Tom Holland spent one millisecond with Christopher Nolan and went back to Marvel and said “wtf are we doing”

[oak ivy]

its actually an insane quote

[dire moss]

its a shame because like Marvel clearly wasn't always this bad in this regard

[oak ivy]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/tom-holland-discloses-the-odyssey-postponed-spider-man-fresh-start-that-uncomfortable-conversation-with-christopher-nolan/ar-AA24FjNa

full article is here

[dusk hound]

You know which cinematic universe is actually taking time with their scripts and not rushing production??

https://tenor.com/view/dc-studios-opening-james-gunn-superman-opening-dc-studios-superman-opening-superman-superman-intro-gif-15839273708026716199

[oak ivy]

why is he jiggling like that

the sexualization of male superheroes needs to end

[dire moss]

I am kinda fascinated to read the tell-all book in a few decades about how the marvel train started going off tracks behind the scenes. they were doing insane for a while there

[west escarp]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DCcomics/s/RR7Y45v8mI

[dusk hound]

https://youtu.be/9nSvmrg2NmM?si=FX1GcCuWSNW-7cwN

Amazing video

[west escarp]

Victim of their own success

[dire moss]

i mean they were pretty sucessfull through endgame

[west escarp]

Which functioned as a natural off ramp

[dire moss]

Ive had a sneaking suspicion that the covid years and move to disney+ caused a lot of background changes in executive decision makers and other high level staff. either in the actual people or just in thier mindset/priorities

[west escarp]

Almost all the big stars left with Endgame amd they started putting out tv series which you had to watch to understand the movie

[dusky flint]

nolan inst even a particularly good director

hes like a mid tier one

[cobalt onyx]

As someone that hasn't really watched the movies since, my understanding is that it's worse than that. They started putting out TV series that everyone assumed they'd need to watch to understand the movies, when the TV series were fairly silo'd.

[dusky flint]

other than the wonderman and the first 3 epsidoes of wandavision

the TV shows were also pretty bad

[cobalt onyx]

And in like the big case where you should've needed to watch the show to get the movie, the movie was made with zero consideration for the show, and went in basically the exact opposite direction.

[topaz oyster]

Seems like it functioned as something of a creative offramp though too

I think people wanted a reason to stick around and Marvel did their damnedest to not give them one

[burnt shale]

I don’t think they created one mistake I think it’s a combination of many factors. I do think one understated is they lacked the oversight the first movies up until avengers had while all being in different genres

But Covid, a natural off ramp, and Disney+ def didn’t help as well

[distant birch]

I honestly think trying to watch everything makes things more confusing right now

Because there's no cohesion. Different projects will do the same concept/arc differently, and you're stuck trying to figure out how they fit together

[winged mountain]

I heard it's worse than that. I didn't watch nearly everything, but as someone who watched Multiverse of Madness but not Wandavision, (MCU MoM) ||The way I heard the story, the writers didn't talk to each other much, and there were just a lot of continuity and character development clashes that just made MoM worse if you had watched Wandavision. I thought the movie was fine, as someone who didn't watch it||

[topaz oyster]

But like, why

Why did they just turn off the oversight

Bizarre choice

[gritty sierra]

i liked wandavision and agatha all along

[winged mountain]

I tagged that as safety but it's really not going into any story details

I think the only MCU series I actually watched were what if season 1 and Loki season 1

I watched about half of the Falcon/Captain America thing, and probably something else I don't remember

like one episode of loki season 2, one episode of moon knight, probably one episode of a couple other things

[oak ivy]

i think they never really figured out what they wanted the tv shows to be

it some combination of

1. its own self contained marvel universe 2 that may cameo in the films
2. necessary material for future films
3. follow ups on existing films
4. random projects

defenders was very clearly slotted into the 1st type

something like hawkeye and ms marvel were confusing at the time

[topaz oyster]

Defenders was more Infinity era though anyway

And had the Netflix complication

[oak ivy]

yeah it is somewhat disjoint

[lone canyon]

Bruh moment

[west escarp]

Gee I can’t wait to see this scene on screen when Supergirl (2026) is released

[oak ivy]

@topaz oyster ironically i think the mandoverse side of star wars shows actually did do a good job of carving out what it wanted to be, distinct characters, its own area in the timeline, and a distinct aesthetic, but then M and G gets released in theaters and its like eh

[dusk hound]

Step 1: Meet your only living relative from your home planet which has since been destroyed along with your entire culture

Step 2: Immediately drop her in an orphanage

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit

[west escarp]

Beats some versions where step 2 is “debate self outloud on the legality of first cousin marriage on Earth & Krypton•

A strangely recurring theme in the golden age

[naive mica]

Yep. That was my experience. I really wanted to keep up with the MCU but too much stuff post endgame was just awful quality.

Not even like, mid out entertaining like some stuff they'd done before. But actively unfun to watch.

[oak ivy]

i think hawkeye had 2 or 3 watchable episodes

[dusk hound]

Modern Superman comics: “I need to stop Doomsday from destroying all of Metropolis!! This is life or death!”

Silver Age Superman comics: “Lois I turned into a lion so now you must act out Beauty and the Beast with me”

[topaz oyster]

The troubles started before that, Mando had a crossover with Boba Fett, two random episodes in the middle of that season that if you didn't watch them Mando s3 made no sense at all

BoBF ||And Ahsoka is in those episodes too, and Luke||

[oak ivy]

execution wise it ran into trouble but conceptually it was pretty solid

[gritty sierra]

i read matt fraction's hawkeye omnibus so i was already biased enough against renner's hawkeye to never touch it

[oak ivy]

i dont think people care as much about BoBF having these crossovers if the show was good at baseline

[oak ivy]

it had the same... jumpsuit guys

[west escarp]

They need to give me comet

I demand supergirl’s horse who is a centaur but also a Pegasus but also a human man but also a human woman but also an angel

First version is preCrisis, second is postCrisis. (1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths was DC’s first continuity reboot)

[dusk hound]

I like how DC reboots every 5 years

Meanwhile Marvel has had the same comics continuity since the 60s

[west escarp]

Not true, or their Nick Fury would still be White Nick Fury and not a Samuel L Jackson inspired version

Besides MCU synergy is wrecking the same effect as a reboot on most of the characters who suffer from it

The only undisputed glow ups have been Iron Man & Nick Fury

[placid river]

Well Nick Fury Sr still exists, the black version is his son Nick Fury Jr

Not the same kind of retcon as DC’s full universal resets

[dusk hound]

Chat who yall got in a fight

[west escarp]

Tiger Batman with prep time

[naive mica]

Tiger Batman is just Derpy

https://tenor.com/view/kpop-kpdh-tiger-derp-blink-gif-934791551481608323

[ionic lily]

Her boyfriend?

[lone canyon]

Batman with prep time always wins

[west escarp]

Yeah, Comet is also her boyfriend

[lone canyon]

That’s true but DC has two full reboots in like five years

[dusky flint]

Imagine if we had an app to discuss renners portrayal of hawkeye

[ionic lily]

Tbh I liked the Hawkeye show a lot

[acoustic pewter]

It was a pretty good show

[topaz oyster]

Much discussion beyond this probably deserves relocation but BoBF ||the idea of using two full episodes of BoBF to pull the punch that is the end of s2 because they don't know how to continue the show without baby Yoda is I think just a conceptual misfire||

[oak ivy]

sw all ||i think there is layer of insecurity with not ending plotlines. mando s2 (havent seen it but i know the jist), not letting ahsoka kill vader, not letting maul rest, and so on, is a large reason why it all feels directionless||

[runic pollen]

And also Loki

[acoustic pewter]

I love the Loki show. Was my favorite Marvel Disney+ original right from episode 1 and it stayed good. I daresay it kept getting better.

[runic pollen]

Yeah I loved it too

[wise epoch]

Finished the Digital Circus movie. I have one big thought. ||I actively dislike that they don't undo the Abstraction. It would make perfect sense that undoing the Abstraction is just "touch the person's abstracted form, comfort them, and they'll come back". It would have been more satisfying because Jax would be able to apologize to Ribbit and Kaufmo, it felt like that's what they were setting up for with Pomni going in for the hug, and it would make sense that this wasn't learned before because Caine just gave everyone the basement treatment so nobody could ever try it before||

I am also surprised at how. Surprisingly not focused on the ||trans Jax reveal|| was. ||We only got the single scene with Ribbit putting the ribbon on Jax's ear and then it never comes up again.||