Matt the Bruins

Please, Xena: Warrior Princess did time travel better than The Flash.

Please, Xena: Warrior Princess did time travel better than The Flash.

Maybe he can get a performance out of Mac.

I do love that MCU movie Pym has no shame in his biases regarding giving his daughter the 'good stuff'

I would refer them to Sigmund Freud's cigar.

Quasar - Track the villain back to his lair, alert the rest of the Local Hero Team, crash the hideout, and rescue Holly.  Again.  Give her a STERN lecture about not getting kidnapped so much.
 
Shadowhunter - Track the villain back to his lair, sneak into the hideout all alone, ambush the bad buy, and rescue Holly.  Again.  "Escort" Holly back to her place to make sure she gets home safe and sound, then swoop in for a little "My hero" nookie action.  AGAIN.  'Cause let's face it, she isn't getting kidnapped over and over by accident.  Holly is a FREAK for superheroes.  
 
Mystica - "So this is outer space alien, no extra dimensional alien?  No eldritch horror?  Go bother punch-punch, boom-boom heroes.  Mystica has universe to save from eldritch horrors.  Better you not know.  Here, take cookie.  Is good.  Now go."

Sign me up as cheering for the controlling corporate masters, because after the fact the majority of the stuff Whedon said he fought to keep or wanted more of in Age of Ultron would have been better left on the cutting room floor IMHO. The man writes friendship and camaraderie well but over the past decade and a half he's almost always faceplanted when trying to deal with romance.

Tony does seem to be the Avengers worst enemy.

I'm not sure the deciding factor for RDJ is how much he loves playing Tony, or how much he loves the mountain of filthy lucre he gets for it.

"I'll be in my burrow."

Up until 10 years ago, decent superhero movies weren't done all that often and Hollywood either.

I love how anyone hungry for characters that aren't male, white, and straight to headline some movies in Hollywood for a change is a "social justice warrior."

I love how anyone hungry for characters that aren't male, white, and straight to headline some movies in Hollywood for a change is a "social justice warrior."

I love how anyone hungry for characters that aren't male, white, and straight to headline some movies in Hollywood for a change is a "social justice warrior."

That's what it was reminding me of! I couldn't quite put my finger on it! Tho fortunately (my childhood crush on Joan Severance notwithstanding) Annable is both a better actress, and a much more convincing athlete. (And/or has better stunt double and better fight choreography.)
 
And Brany's hair didn't bug me so much as his makeup job. I'm sure it was done that way on purpose, but to me the uneven coloration just made it look like...well, a bad makeup job.

I have to say Reign's costume is giving me Black Scorpion flashbacks.

Nobody knew anyone wanted to see an Iron Man movie, until we saw it. Same with Captain America, Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, and Dr. Strange.  Most people hadn't even heard of those characters. Whether a Black Widow movie will fly will depend on how they do it, and how the general movie-going audience will react. But the Marvel brand, the character, and the actress all have serious name recognition and credibility now, which will go a long way.

IMO, the UI designer and whoever signed off on the project are more at fault. It's possible neither of those is still around. Not scapegoating the poor bastard who got stuck with a poorly implemented UI seems reasonable to me.

That Disney saw Warner Bros. rake in somewhere between a half billion to a billion dollars on Wonder Woman merchandise and stopped listening to whatever twit in their ranks kept insisting that no one would buy toys and such featuring female heroes?

They showed the preview on Saturday Night Live.

To be honest, around here the person getting the blame is the guy who fumbled foreign policy so badly that we have to have missile alerts in the first place.
 
I usually dismiss conservative publications like the National Review out of hand, but this particular article is especially laughable.  It starts with the bald faced lie that military officers are always held accountable for failures on this scale, and then goes into an irrelevant tangent about Japanese business culture.  (One wonders if that tangent would have been included if the director's last name was Smith.)  It complains about a supposed lack of accountability in public service but conveniently forgets that corporations are even less accountable.  Accountability for this particular fiasco will in fact occur this fall, on Election Day. 
 
Meanwhile, what actually happened was that in less than 12 hours, the public officials in charge figured out what happened, took immediate steps to prevent it from happening again, disciplined the poor bastard who chose the wrong option on the pulldown menu, and went on camera to take personal responsibility.  There was exactly zero finger pointing.  That's pretty damn refreshing when the rest of my news feed is full of politicians banding together to elect child rapists while shouting "no collusion!" loudly and often, hoping to convince themselves it's true.
 
But by all means, take the opportunity to smear public unions!  Even the article didn't go that far.
 
 

Not trying to argue, one reason for the self shooting is Control. Many spree criminals/shooters seem to be reacting to a perceived lack of control in their lives. Shooting gives them a feeling of power and control, and they don't want to surender that, they'd rather die. That is often why If they can be talked down they do surrender, it's a sort of emotional storm that is driving them.
 
Curing That is real challenging. My own perceptions of society is that indiviguals  are less and less valued, creating even more alienation.

I think the best comic book villain on television by a wide margin is Aubrey Plaza as the Shadow King on Legion. Which also gets my vote for best comic book show, although it's almost nothing like the source material.

I think the best comic book villain on television by a wide margin is Aubrey Plaza as the Shadow King on Legion. Which also gets my vote for best comic book show, although it's almost nothing like the source material.