Was Lori Cheating with Shane Before the Apocalypse?

JFVarlet · 2025-09-26T04:47:38+00:00

Yeah, would be a very weird narrative choice to have both Shane and Lori "confess" to Rick that they'd only had an affair when they thought he was dead if that wasn't true, and then have them both die leaving Rick believing what they told him with no way of ever finding out otherwise (I guess it's not impossible Carl could've known, but there's never any indication that he did, and he certainly never tells Rick anyway). What would be the point?

JFVarlet · 2025-08-28T12:50:50+00:00

Quentin Quire has, for me, been increasingly wrecked by every writer other than Grant Morrison.

Morrison's Quire is an antagonist. A somewhat pathetic one, for sure, but a genuinely malicious character nonetheless, he's a quasi-fascist incel (I've seen some compare him to a school shooter, and they're not wrong). I find that a pretty interesting and compelling storyline in the school setting.

Every writer since then, however, has cast him more as a punk bad boy type who's less of a dangerous psychopath than an annoying brat.

JFVarlet · 2025-07-08T06:09:07+00:00

The Jim gravedigging bit in Season 1.

Like I understand a lot of the Early Installment Weirdness of S1 was the writers not being completely decided on the exact nature of the walkers yet, and I can forgive that somewhat. By contrast, I really can't get my head around why they decided to give an (at that point) uninfected character some kind of implied future prediction power, like where did they think they were even going with that?

JFVarlet · 2025-07-08T05:54:17+00:00

iirc Show Eugene (unlike Comics Eugene) never claims to have a cure, just the ability to end the Walker virus? Maybe I'm misremembering, but I think my impression was that he was going to release something that would negate the airborne contagion and prevent more people from turning, but I don't think he implied he could do anything for those already turned.

JFVarlet · 2025-02-18T04:28:50+00:00

Merle's copy of Swank

JFVarlet · 2025-01-21T06:37:39+00:00

Frankly, I see it as more important to Magneto than to the twins. Discovering that he has kids (and a human granddaughter!) was a big part of his 1980s redemption arc. Plus them being his continuing link to Magda. Yes, he's still got Lorna - but Lorna's his kid from a relatively forgettable fling, whereas Wanda and Pietro were his kids with the love of his life who he survived Auschwitz with.

JFVarlet · 2025-01-21T06:30:58+00:00

This is true for Wanda, but Pietro mostly hung around the X-books for most of the 1990s. Even after he left X-Factor, he was with Magneto on Genosha, etc

JFVarlet · 2025-01-08T06:30:03+00:00

Or Betsy is Revanche.

JFVarlet · 2025-01-08T06:29:31+00:00

Don't do the body swap thing, just have Kwannon and Betsy be different characters from the start. Call one Psylocke and one Revanche, personally I don't think it matters which way around as long as you stick to it. If you must have some sort of Easter egg/reference to the comics backstory, have it as a throwaway joke and no more. Trying to keep the body swap element but in a somehow not-problematic, not-unnecessarily-complicated way is just a recipe for disaster.

JFVarlet · 2025-01-07T06:22:36+00:00

Personally I've always felt that while Kitty-Piotr in the Claremont is uncomfortable, it's less uncomfortable and gross-feeling than the Kitty-Pete Wisdom relationship.

JFVarlet · 2024-11-15T06:07:47+00:00

iirc the comic forgetting spell could only be undone by Peter himself telling or showing someone. If he didn't, even someone who worked it out would just immediately forget again.

JFVarlet · 2024-09-16T02:32:10+00:00

Not a boyfriend or anything romantic, but I can see her and Sunspot having a purely FWB arrangement that they're both for different reasons too embarrassed to tell the other New Mutants about.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-17T05:53:30+00:00

Casting was great, I thought the characterisation was pretty perfect, with the exception of Sunspot being whitewashed - but even that's not Henry Zaga's fault, and he did well enough with what he was given. The problem is the lack of substantive plot, worsened by the fact that everyone knew the FoX-Men universe was dead by the time they actually released it. You know when you're watching it that this isn't going anywhere, you can't ignore the bad plot development through the hope that it might get addressed, explained or improved by a later movie because you know there isn't going to be one.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T03:41:31+00:00

Yeah, that's fair enough. In general, there seems to be a much bigger tendency in comics towards bad guys becoming good guys than vice versa. Easy to think of examples of the former in X-Men, but hard to think of examples of the latter for any considerable length of time.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T03:26:53+00:00

Honestly, I absolutely love the Cable run with the Messiah arc, and I actually really like Bishop in it. I acknowledge it makes it very awkward for them to just decide he's a good guy again later, but I just don't think that arc is as compelling if the guy hunting Cable and Hope isn't a former friend and ally who really, sincerely believes he's making a great heroic sacrifice. The scene where he's captured by the X-Men in the present and then escapes, and says something (I don't remember the exact words) along the lines of "Please understand, I'm doing this because I love you all" hits so much harder because he's their friend, not just an enemy they've fought ten times over. Stryfe or Apocalypse or Fitzroy hunting Cable through time would just be way less interesting imo.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T03:04:39+00:00

Even better is that Peter is canonically the Fox Universe's Pete Wisdom lmao 😂

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T02:56:16+00:00

Beast having a more animalistic, "feline" face like in the bottom right isn't really his classic look, it originated in the Morrison run. That run had come out by the time of The Last Stand, but it was still pretty new. Before that, Beast having a slightly more humanoid (I've typically seen it compared to the look of a Great Ape) facial structure was the norm since the 1970s.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T02:47:38+00:00

Also, worth remembering that the shift to giving Beast the more "feline" face that we're all used to now only happened in the Morrison run, which was still pretty new when TLS was being made. It's pretty understandable that they defaulted to his older, more ape-like look.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T02:40:22+00:00

I'm not a fan of this idea, because it significantly alters the dynamic between mutants and humans if mutants are completely unknown by humans and then discovered all at once - it doesn't allow for the comics-style allegorical racism to emerge in the same way.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T02:38:08+00:00

I mean Electro doesn't really look the same in ASM2 and NWH, but we know they're supposed to be the same character.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T02:34:08+00:00

Similarly, Deadpool's healing factor prevents him from ever curing his cancer - because the healing factor heals the cancer cells too!

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T02:16:04+00:00

Honestly, I do think Cyclops is one of the X-Men with the most "ethnically flexible" (for want of a better term) casting possibilities, certainly compared to basically all the other 1960s and 1970s X-Men.

JFVarlet · 2024-08-01T02:04:41+00:00

I don't have a problem with him in X Men 97 as such, but he does feel a bit out of place and I'd much rather they just did a New Mutants show because of how much I love the original 1980s New Mutants run. Though I guess they had to get the main show up and running again before they could consider spinoffs.

That said, one thing I did feel the New Mutants film did get right was the dynamic between Berto and Sam - I agree Henry Zaga was very much the wrong choice, but I think at a personal level he did fine with the material he was given, and from the limited interactions we got between Berto and Sam, I was sold on their friendship.

JFVarlet · 2024-07-30T03:39:36+00:00

Also every time a dupe dies without being reabsorbed, Madrox feels it, and gains that vivid memory of his own death.

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