[–] 1 point 3 hours ago

Yeah it took me a while to realize this. Comicbook movies shouldn't really be viewed in the same lens as cinema. When they embrace that, they actually can be quite good like Thor Ragnarok and GOTG.

And, like Andor, you get occasional gems by proper storytellers like with Loki. That first season was wayyy better than it had any right to be. Very few works could pull off a likable narcissistic bisexual dude falling in love with himself literally, but it worked in the context of a comic movie/show. It's a shame the abusive actor playing the baddie ruined everything, pretty much derailed S2, and the writers had to salvage the pieces.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    Haha while true, it did do its job successfully: target teenagers in the 90s. I give it a pass because it introduced a lot of people to fantasy storytelling who would probably not have been interested in it. My sisters were obsessed with Buffy and Charmed growing up, which lead them to Tolkien, GRRM, and Dune.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Star Trek just never works in a movie medium imo. The real meat of their stories work best in episodic format, with the occasional two parter.

    The only movies that were decent was when there were no series being aired like Wrath of Khan. Pretty much all the TNG movies were just fan service, but palatable. The Kelvin timeline doesn't exist in my book.

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