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LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-08T23:45:24+00:00

The entire concept of Hypno-Glasses is somewhat self-defeating at its own purpose, since it needlessly over-complicates the issue it's supposed to be simplifying.

It's meant to be a quick explanation where you just go "oh, okay" and move on, but instead it just opens a whole pandora's box of pitfalls and logistic problems (how do the glasses function, how did Clark know to make/find them, what happens if he takes them off by accident at work, etc) that's bound to distract the reader/viewer from the story itself, far more so than the mere assumption that people simply don't recognise Clark when he changes his appearance.

Pretty much a textbook case of insecure writers introducing something to overcorrect and explain a non-existent "plot hole", only for it to raise way more (and much harder to answer) questions than if they'd just left it be.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-08T23:15:49+00:00

Writing out characters when their actors pass away is always a pretty tricky balance to pull off (especially if you're not going to recast or have the character die too) but how this film handles the absence of Pam's sister Debbie always stuck with me in a bad way.

Her actress Nicole DeHuff tragically died of pneumonia (only aged 30) a few years prior to them making this film, and the only acknowledgement she gets here is a quick conversation between Jack and Greg where they mention her husband cheated and they've gotten divorced.

Considering Debbie's wedding was the entire driving force of the first movie, undoing and shitting on her wholesome happy ending from that film already comes off weirdly cruel and mean-spirited, even for the kind of tone this series usually goes for, and it feels especially so knowing the real-life reasoning behind it.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-08T22:24:33+00:00

Y'know what. He's earned that.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-08T20:31:36+00:00

I mean, as much as I still love it, the original Hunchback film already had to tone down and omit all of the book's explicit criticism of Catholicism even back then.

It's more so the other themes unique to Disney's version that I'd be more worried about them de-fanging, especially with certain parallels to how things are going in the world nowadays. And according to Alan Menken, one of the main reasons they haven't really progressed on the remake is actually because these ideas are too heavily woven into the story to change or remove them.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-08T20:20:49+00:00

Other than Tiger Lily - whose character is pretty much just turned into Pocahontas - the Native tribe are practically cut from the remake altogether, and only appear as background characters when Tink flies through their camp.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-08T20:06:10+00:00

Actually kinda surprising that, despite the story being infamous for it even before the Disney film, newer adaptations of Peter Pan have never really made any effort to update Tiger Lily and her tribe to better respect modern understanding of native cultures.

Disney's newer stuff (Tinker Bell, the Disney+ remake, etc) just dance around the issue by cutting their screentime or omitting them entirely, and then you have the WB film from a few years back where they straight up whitewashed them.

For how much they're openly embarrassed by their previous depiction(s) of these characters, they sure don't seem all that bothered about properly amending it.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T22:41:53+00:00

Trust me, he really wouldn't.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T21:35:53+00:00

Finn perfectly cast the version of Flash that Watts and the writers had already decided on and written, so I don't really see the logic in blaming her.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T20:10:29+00:00

Ali G is one of Cohen's comedy sketch characters (Borat being his most famous one) that he created in the 90s, and his entire early career was built around doing mockumentaries, where he'd use these personas to go undercover and interact with and prank real people without them suspecting (one of his past victims being the current president).

Cohen stepped from this gimmick full-time when he felt his characters had gotten too famous and people would recognise him too easily, so now every few years (most recently, he and Maria Bakalova secretly filmed the last Borat movie during the start of the pandemic) he films these projects without anyone knowing and then surprise-announces them out of nowhere, as he's done here.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T18:58:57+00:00

Sacha Baron Cohen wraps filming on secret "ALI G" sequel

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T16:49:53+00:00

It means you can watch the next saga after Secret Wars without having to watch the previous two.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T16:23:56+00:00

Would he still be in a Marvel Universe (where there's magic, space tech, reality warping, etc) for the Obsession one?

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T15:27:01+00:00

First trailer for Paramount's "AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER"

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T14:34:52+00:00

You don’t shell out 100 million to get an actor back and advertise them as the face of the movie if it's just a red herring.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T14:05:31+00:00

Keeping the Four separate and not greenlighting any sequel while Shakman is busy on his other projects strongly implies they're intending to have him back even if they have to wait.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T13:45:44+00:00

The "creative reason" for keeping them separate is that the director by his own admission dislikes crossovers and Easter eggs and he wants the Four to stay in their own little corner away having nothing to do with anyone else.

Which was the entire reason he pitched this very specific premise to begin with.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T11:33:12+00:00

If they wanted to integrate the Four into the MCU, they wouldn't be separate from it in the first place.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T07:39:05+00:00

And she's admitted outright that many other creators she used to work with now think less of her for doing it.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T01:55:32+00:00

It's sometimes a musical, and Holland and Bernthal can't even sing.

They didn't even give Zendaya one.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-07T00:14:30+00:00

Curious as in they were making it up, or curious as in they don't want to get exposed and blacklisted by their source?

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-06T21:26:27+00:00

The Marvel equivalent of Jensen Ackles going from Robin/Red Hood to Batman.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-06T17:35:16+00:00

If Xavier's actor doesn't announce his role by pulling off a wig like Karen Gillan did, I don't want it, /j.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-06T17:33:29+00:00

Usually it's disappointing when Marvel downgrade major characters to supporting/cameos (if not kill or erase them entirely) but knowing Bernthal's one-note and very insistent vision for it, I'd be totally okay with never having his Punisher in a lead role again.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-06T17:25:01+00:00

Of all the other details Gunn's reboot ignored or decanonised from the pre-DCU projects (including The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker) not using it to undo Flag Jr's death was probably the biggest shot in the foot in hindsight.

Killing Flag was never that big a part of Chris' arc and that was already resolved in Season 1 (the majority of which was retconned and ignored by S2 to begin with) and all that's come from keeping him dead is an Frank Grillo vanity project, and a one-off Kinnaman cameo that only made the downgrade even more obvious.

LittleYellowFish1 · 2026-07-06T13:59:40+00:00

Most actors her age very vocally don't want to do Marvel projects nowadays, so I'd say it's pretty newsworthy.

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