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I've heard others make this case before, but I don't see it.  Other than having white hair and the name White Wolf, very little can be said to be directly taken from Elric in my opinion.  Sapkowski stole from Polish history and literature for stories.  There is no Order/Chaos dichotomy (Chaos is more pronounced for TV).  Geralt is a monster hunter, Elric is mainly a mercenary.  Any other character similarities draw from general loner hero adventure tropes.
 
If written well (as with every other media), an Elric series could be successful.  Doom Patrol is filled with characters who are depressing and filled with self-loathing like Elric, and it's doing pretty well.  He's not Thomas Covenant gloomy, but he's close. 
 
Wait, nevermind, nobody's close to Thomas Covenant depressing. 

In a lot of ways, he reminded me of Tommy Lasorda - you may not like all he does, but his knowledge and passion for his sport never wavered and always came through in everything he said.

Almost finished the Witcher Season 2. Thinking that if I ever ran Fantasy, I’d still some of the concepts from it. Thinking of the conjunction is an interesting one to use.  I did like in the books on how it points out the humans are a-holes to elves BUT the dwarves point out that the elves were like that to the dwarves first. 

So many culture references came from this movie(Notably a band's name). Falls into the so bad it's good category for me and young Jane was a hottie.

One of the last, best links to the old NFL.  The only reason Belichick is generally considered the GOAT is because Madden couldn't continue with the air travel;  without that who KNOWS what he'd have done.
 
Oh, and then all he did was win the sportscaster Emmy.......16 times.
 
I got tired of him eventually, but hell, as long as his career was, that was inevitable.

John Madden Dead At 85. Lord Rest Him Well.

NONE of the year's MCU movies have been abject failures critically or at the box office, no matter how much certain people would like to impose that narrative. The previous three did quite well given that they were released during a global pandemic. But it's no surprise that they're being outdone by a movie featuring Marvel's most popular and well-known character, which is also the third in a series of well-received films about that character. I think the last two Avengers movies were the only safer bets in the entire franchise.

Well...we enjoyed Shang Chi and Eternals too. "shrugs"

That is very cool looking. Given the cars, as an american, my first thought was: "is this what happens when you don't know how to use a roundabout correctly?"

Kids today don't know how easy they have it.  When I was young, we had to walk 9 feet through shag carpet to change the channel.

One other thing that struck me in this after watching the post credits scene. Is the problem still the same one or does Stephen cast it a second time, as it certainly looks the same. And if so, then his entire shifting the blame to Peter was, well arrogant and selfish (which of course is very in character for him). The problem being, he doesnt realize how deep a guilt complex Peter has and that Pete would accept the blame. Wong warned Stephen about the consequences, and yet he ignored them. And given that we saw that Wong was heading to the ancient temple, where we see Mordo attack, it makes me think the movies run concurrently.
Also, I now wonder if Stephen remembers Ned using the ring, since he forgot Peter.
And one of the easter egg sites I saw mentioned that even though she forgot Peter, MJ still wears the broken Black Dhalia necklace at the end, so there is something there.

One other thing that struck me in this after watching the post credits scene. Is the problem still the same one or does Stephen cast it a second time, as it certainly looks the same. And if so, then his entire shifting the blame to Peter was, well arrogant and selfish (which of course is very in character for him). The problem being, he doesnt realize how deep a guilt complex Peter has and that Pete would accept the blame. Wong warned Stephen about the consequences, and yet he ignored them. And given that we saw that Wong was heading to the ancient temple, where we see Mordo attack, it makes me think the movies run concurrently.
Also, I now wonder if Stephen remembers Ned using the ring, since he forgot Peter.
And one of the easter egg sites I saw mentioned that even though she forgot Peter, MJ still wears the broken Black Dhalia necklace at the end, so there is something there.

Spider-Man is great at quips because with great power comes great response ability.
 

Does anybody buy this excuse?  
 Or is it more likely they just want the thing down and the issue settled before the Westerners start coming in for the Olympics in ‘22.  Christmas week is good timing, people want to think about “Peace on Earth & Good Will Toward Man”.  Not raising a stink about something that happened far away and long ago.

Agreed on ending, sort of heartbreaking and really brought home standing next to Happy at May's grave (I thought the tear going down her eye meant she was still alive) and being asked how he knew May. I hope it isn't actually and I kept thinking when they figure it out, MJ and Ned are going to be pissed, since she will remember Peter looking at her injury and not telling her. loved the movie and Molina was spectacular, again - but he has been my favorite of the Spider-Man villains so far prior to this, and I liked him still being sane at end and turning on Elektro (I also thought they setup him returning to the point he died when he suddenly became rational again in SM2, this explains it, as he was sane again). I liked the shop talk between the villains in the dungeon as 3 of the 5 are multiple PHD holders. Church was again a great "tragic" villain as Sandman, I actually thought he was going to aid the spidermen as Ock did. And now Venom is in the MCU, though thought he already would have been. Isn't the Venom movies in the MCU? His disappearing didn't make since, as this Brock isn't the one from the Maguire universe, or so I thought. And I actually still felt that both Garfield and Maguire enjoyed doing Spidey, I know Garfield was especially disappointed that he wouldn't do more.
Also agree with Iuz as this may be one of my top 5 Supers movie.
 

I don' think Steve would appreciate them changing the statue