I did it.
Every modern
#DoctorWho
story, reviewed in one video. Share it, check it out, etc etc.
Be it Moffat, Davies, or Chibnall, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, Whittaker, or Gatwa, no era and no Doctor is safe.
Incredibly straightforward and effective explanation of how the MCU’s time travel works which was maybe more thorough than it needed to be, and yet STILL people managed to somehow not get it.
You know what’s not remotely surprising?
That I’m seeing NO ONE complain about having to watch 2 seasons of Loki to “understand”
#DeadpoolAndWolverine
the way they complained about having to watch Ms. Marvel and WandaVision to “understand” The Marvels.
@7Spideycomics
Ryan is an incredibly sheltered kid. Not only can we not expect someone who’s 12 at the oldest to have any concrete sense of morality or self-awareness, no matter how hard Becca tried, Becca’s teachings were also all theoretical.
Kid’s never actually interacted with the world.
This clip is unironically a really good example of character-based storytelling, and some people are just mad because they’ve only ever seen it as goofy silly fart fart joke devoid of context.
So fucking funny that this is literally just two of the bad guys role playing in private purely for their own benefit, and then getting embarrassed when Ruby interrupts them.
What I love more than anything else about this is how, in contrast to 73 Yards, this single scene takes what’s ostensibly a Doctor-lite episode and reveals that it’s been a Doctor character-piece the entire time.
This whole story builds to the Doctor realizing that suddenly-
Not to be mean, but this is how I know ya'll don't actually be paying attention to the movies you criticize.
Cause this is, indeed, a very dumb question.
Spoilers for I Saw the TV Glow, but this post really captures it perfectly.
I think the thing that fucked me up most about that movie was hitting the credits with the knowledge that people, SO many people, go through their real lives feeling like that.
@siilkytofu
To be fair, what he says is that his PEOPLE call him K’uk’ulkan, and Shuri and Ramonda sure as shit ain’t that.
Really it’s a nice bit that sums up Namor’s while dilemma. He basically forces Wakanda to call themselves his enemies cause he only perceives “enemies” or “subjects”.
@DrakeVagabond
Excellent example of what I’m talking about. Steve didn’t change the future at all.
He went to another timeline, lived out to old age there, and then came back to his original timeline at the point he left.
Gotta love how “James Gunn is gonna resolve every conflict with a dance-off” has been the mantra of his haters for 8 years now, even though
1) it’s been 8 YEARS and he’s not ended a movie with anything remotely similar since,
and 2) that’s not even ACTUALLT what resolves GOTG.
@DiscussingFilm
You can’t top the Knightmare ffs 🤦♂️ James Gunn’s Justice League vs Darkseid is gonna end with Batman winning a dance off to save the universe 🥺
Fuck man, I’m not expecting Quantumania to be a masterpiece or top tier MCU or anything, but centering the whole conflict around Scott wanting his time with Cassie back is one of those great, character-centric “lemonade out of lemons” choices I’ll always admire the franchise for.
@Schaffrillas
He puts it in the microwave as it’s falling and about to be hit by some fire. The clip going around is reversed footage of him pulling it out after he’s saved everyone.
@MCU_Direct
This is the subtly pervasive “super literal fanboy brain” stuff that annoys me.
No, ATSV did not “retcon” the death scene. The movies simply use different visuals to portray the same event- one is an abstract summary, the other is more detailed.
Learn what a retcon actually is.
I already found Dot and Bubble’s choice to center someone as persistently unlikable as Lindy unique and interesting for this show, but when THIS moment happened is when I knew we were, like…*doing* something with it.
The funny thing about Pedro Pascal as Reed is that I totally see where people are coming from, but also I don’t think most anyone would’ve called RDJ, Evans, or Cumberbatch “ideal casting” for Iron Man, Cap, and Strange before seeing them in the role.
I take it back, THIS is the most boring way to watch movies. Like holy shit I keep seeing this guy in my recommends. Always figured it would be meaningless pedantic ramblings of some kind but dear lord.
“They ruined Strange Supreme!”
“They erased his character arc!”
Nigga WHAT character arc?
Strange Supreme literally merc’d a whole universe for purely selfish reasons, said “sorry”, then helped with an outside problem.
He did a good thing but he didn’t “learn” shit.
#WhatIf
John Walker being so put out reading stories about his tragic downfall that he ignores his crying child is a great reintroduction.
Perfectly in line with his characterization in FATWS as a self-absorbed shmuck constantly riding the line Bren sympathy and contempt.
#Thunderbolts
A movie not explaining something to you is not a plot hole.
A movie not explaining something to you is not a plot hole.
A movie not explaining something to you is not a plot hole.
A movie not explaining something to you is not a plothole.
only ever looked on with disapproval from the outside suddenly applied directly to him, and it’s horrifying to realize that to these racist idiots and their ilk, he’s his skin color first and “The Doctor” second.
It’s a moment of self-image shattering a bit.
he is without a level of privilege that he’s possessed his whole life. Even when he had to put up with moments of bullshit sexism as 13, it was something she could ultimately tear down or circumvent with enough bravado. But this is different. This is something The Doctor’s-
@epistemophagy
@taliaotg
What else would cause someone to be a “bad person” who “chooses” to radicalize themselves then?
If the idea isn’t that the people in question are somehow naturally, inescapably evil, then you’ve communicated that poorly.
Need to emphasize again how the *lack* of stuff like this likely played a big role in the failure of The Marvels.
Ads like this are how a LOT of average filmgoers (who spend 0% of their time on Twitter and maybe 4% of their time on YouTube) are gonna be reminded this film exists
For one of the actors whose talents have definitely been most underutilized throughout the history of the MCU, I’m so glad for Don Cheadle’s sequence in today’s
#SecretInvasion
.
In a show full of intrigue/threat, Cheadle & Jackson having drinks is easily the tensest scene so far
@DynamoSuperX
But they WERE for kids, is the thing. People just feel the need to pretend they weren’t because they’re bothered by the idea that kids’ media can broach certain topics or ideas.
More of THIS Aunt May please. Such a great interaction, and it baffles me that we reduce her to nothing in FFH when there was absolutely a place for her in that movie.
@ColtonDelphy
@marvel_shots
It’s not the WORST, but it looks plasticy and intangible in a way that’ll really be distracting if that’s what’s in the show
The fact that stories like Secret Invasion and She-Hulk and Guardians Vol. 3 and Wakanda Forever and Love & Thunder can all coexist in the same reality and I don’t even question it is a big reason the MCU still fucks.
Other cinematic universes could never.
I like this take.
Broke: the MCU has Peter "learn to be Spider-Man" 3 times and only has him realize Great Responsibility at the end
Woke: Peter enters the MCU with the impulse but not the words deeply ingrained in him and spends 3 movies having that belief tested to apotheosis
@DiamondSpiderP
I'm very much of the opinion that it's a deliberate arc. Ben's death begins the thought, kicking off spidey's career as he tries to articulate what he feels, but May (who was on her own arc too) ends up finding the words that has him truly understand it clearly.
@LetsStanKory
Comic fans when you tell them that translating the comics directly was never the goal of this franchise and also that striving to do so would be a mistake.
Kate Lethbrige-Stewart is so fascinating to me, man.
I’ve never seen a show spend literally over 10 whole years trying and failing to make a character work.
#DoctorWho
Baffles me that we’re almost 4 years out from WandaVision and we’ve still, STILL got whole droves of people on either side who can’t or won’t admit that Wanda can be deserving of sympathy AND condemnation *at the same time.*
Man, how is an *MCU show* too nuanced for some people?
@StephieSparda
It’s prescient.
Toxic fanboys ultimately never STOP being fanboys, even when they claim to be “done” with something. They just shift their enthusiasm to resentment, but the target of their attention is the same.
Killing off one of the most central (if woefully underutilized in recent decades) characters in Superman’s central cast before he’s even had the chance to assert himself as a real character for the sake of a “power move” to “show how dark you are” is fucking stupid, actually.
as superman fandom claims how important this character is
i kinda feel killing jimmy olsen at the very start of BvS was a power move and shows you how dark this movie is about to be
@idontcastspells
The way it’s her kids fearing her that makes her stop, but her other self treating her with some kindness and empathy after ALL she’s done that makes her realize there must still be a speck of decency in her she can atone with.
INSANE that anyone calls this movie poorly written.
@MOLENAIDE
Ngl I really can’t see how either of the Spiderverse movies would be better with Ganke having an increased role. If anything his LACK of a real presence benefits Miles’ story imo.
It’s funny how for all the criticism I see of Smart Hulk, almost 0% ever came from a place of it not working/making sense as a purely narrative choice.
For all the grief people give Smart Hulk, it makes total sense from a narrative standpoint. This is what Bruce has wanted since the 2008 movie. The Hulk under control.
@Anuj50227967
@Browntable_Ent
He’s…not, really. He’s having a real hard time throughout the movie, but you get the sense that Norman was a pretty decent guy at his core, if very alienating toward Harry.