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  • I agree with everything about this article except the title.

    For me this film is at its best after the vampire reveal and ends when most of the vampires are killed. The intro is fine but goes on a little long and while I’m always a fan of killing Klansman it feels like an unnecessary action scene after the climax of the film.

    My vote is for One Battle After Another. It could be argued it starts slow as well, but once it gets going it is paved perfectly.


  • move the franchise forward

    You’re absolutely right and we’ve been asking for this since the end of Voyager and I think one of the biggest reasons why Enterprise had such rough time.

    90s Trek was fantastic and did a great job handing off to each other. Even Voyager being stranded was still moving the world forward. Then we reset back to the first Enterprise, absolutely killing all the momentum.

    The best thing Discovery ever did (apart from soft launching Strange New Worlds which got lucky) was launch us into the far future and give us a place to build.

    I never would have asked for that. Picard seemed like that path forward, but struggled (season 1), told a what if story (season 2), and then just did a fun reunion (season 3). But ultimately set up a Seven show that just never happened.

    But we’re in the far future now. Discovery put us there. Starfleet Academy is building and moving us forward again. It’s not perfect, but it’s building and I’m in.



  • Hacks is excellent. The Last of Us is excellent. Although both of those are preparing for their final season.

    Euphoria is excellent, although I expect season 3 to be their last.

    That leaves The White Lotus which is also excellent.

    I’ve also heard IT Welcome to Derry is excellent, but I haven’t seen it.

    That being said they’ve been trying to get Dune as a series, Prophecy is getting a second season but I’m not sure the first season really worked.

    We also have the whole of DC Studios. I agree it’s possible Gunn departs if the deal goes through, which would cause some major quality issues.

    But there is the golden goose that is Harry Potter. It’s probably going to have a shit ton of people watching it.

    So for big existing franchises, they’ll probably be ok, and GOT fits in there. But for original stuff, I agree they have fewer options.


  • Curious to know what you didn’t like.

    I had issues with Kingpins rushed storyline. I think if Barton is afraid of someone we should have seen Kingpin do something that we the audience were afraid of. His relationship with Echo was interesting, but ends abruptly.

    I think Yelana’s story needed a little more room to breathe. We understand she is upset, but we don’t know that she has the context of how Nat died and she is just lashing out. It feels like a revenge story, but really it’s a “just looking for someone to blame” story.

    That being said I think Kate’s story worked really well. I think she had excellent chemistry with Clint and with Yelena. I liked the flip of the Swordsman being a good guy. It features an excellent musical.

    Overall pretty good.



  • An “Aegon’s Conquest” film is probably the best way to tell the story. It’s not a particularly interesting story since it’s just man (and sister-wives) steamroll Westeros with dragons.

    I’m sure you could spice it up a bit, but also Aegon is a conqueror and kind of a “bad guy” in that sense. He’s just chilling at Dragonstone and Westeros is mostly just chilling doing their own thing, and he just decides naw… it’s mine now. I’m guessing they’ll add some prophecy to give him reason, we saw this touched on in season 1 of HOTD. Basically there must be a Targaryen on the throne in order to stop the white walkers. Although GOT season 8 sorta disproved that, which I guess makes the whole of Targaryen rule and Aegon’s Conquest moot. So…

    Either way, could be fun, but I don’t expect a lot from it.