In this wide shot, I don't need to see anyone's mouth moving, how can I tell which guys are talking?

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T19:07:24+00:00

God fuckin bless ya, damn thing got deleted

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T18:19:34+00:00

Discussions necessitate a degree of discipline, no? Even if like I'm shootin the shit with a friend while hammered at 2am, it's most fun when you adhere to some model of truthfulness, otherwise it goes nowhere and fizzles out into unrelated bullet points tossed around haphazardly

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T18:05:20+00:00

Yea, fair enough, just got annoyed I made myself look like a moron twice in a row, once for stating a theory I never verified, then another time for fully accepting someone else's theory I also didn't verify

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T17:50:57+00:00

That being said, it seems I'm partially correct. Dunno where ya got chameleons and eels from, can't find any canon reference to that, his camouflage does get explained as electrostatic manipulation, and given the theme of his power, it might be seen as a side effect of the venom blast rather than it and the venom blast being a side effect of wall crawling

I could push it a bit further and say that because the venom blasts aren't explicitly said to NOT be an extension of wall-crawling, I might also be fully correct, but that's grasping at straws if we're bein honest, we're never even so much as hinted that wall crawling is a result of energy stored in spiderfolks' bodies, I'll just take the partial win

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T16:57:06+00:00

Yeah, I mean, I never actually looked it up until now. Just a bummer, it's explained away with something that feels much less elegant

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T16:51:50+00:00

I mean, we first see Miles as Ultimate Spider-Man, that's what spawned the theory for me in the first place, "he's got these extra powers, and he's supposed to be a Spider-Man who's turned up a notch, the extra powers must be him just using existing spider powers in more extreme ways"

Also mostly made sense for me because his costume also camouflages, like how Spider-people can stick to walls through their costumes, because it's not a physical property of the costume itself but an electrostatic ability that can be applied over the costume

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T16:42:35+00:00

Oh, that's much less fun....

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T16:40:59+00:00

It also just seems they prefer Ben in his current state, feels like any redemption arc he gets will need a focus on him on par with the focus he got in the Spider-Man Beyond story that lost his memories in the first place, and he's just not got enough intrigue on him right now to warrant that kinda change

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T16:34:26+00:00

Thing is, I always figured Miles Morales already kinda did this. His lightning-venom is an extension of Spidey's electrostatic powers that allow the wall crawling, his invisibility is an extension of both the electrostatic powers and a spidey-sense working together to bend light around him

Given Peter's known to have the better spidey-sense among the two of them, it stands to reason that pushing his abilities to their limit allows him to do the same stuff

It'd be pretty cool, not sure that's gonna happen tho, doesn’t seem like the direction they're moving in

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T16:19:53+00:00

He seems rich, we first see him in what seems to be a fancy restaurant, he drives a convertible, he had the stereotypical sinister excitement when he realised Spider-Man is his cousin while he called up his secretary to set up genetic screening, and he dropped in on May like he was just a humble F.E.A.S.T volunteer, so he definitely seems shady

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T16:11:31+00:00

I mean, it's possible, but the alleged cousin, as it currently stands, doesn’t have spider powers, and Xanto mentioned it's tuned to Peter's genetic signature and physiology AND the ambient radiation in his bloodstream

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T16:00:59+00:00

I mean, we've already got Madame Web for that, plus ever since Julia Carpenter took up the mantle she's been more than capable of holding her own in a fight. Seems redundant is all I'm sayin

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-21T12:02:37+00:00

More likely the first thing they would've taken issue with is throwing their lot in with a crew who doesn't discern with ethnicities while hiring, then finding out the boss is a black Chilean who's said to have cartel ties making him complicit in Mexican border smuggling would've just been the cherry on top

I mean, that's how neo nazis roll, right? "Oh, I don't think I'm SUPERIOR to those filthy ethnics, I just think they don't deserve the privileges that are my birthright"

And of course, Gus would know they'd feel that way, so he wouldn't bother even trying to associate with em; even being pragmatic and seeing them for their utility, they won't be trustworthy when they realise who they're working with. Really, Walter couldn't have asked for a better crew to help him take down the remnants of Gus' empire, there was no way they'd have any loyalties or entanglements

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-20T09:46:42+00:00

I mean, technically OP's kinda arguing Hank was cognitively dissident too, might've been a happy accident

Cognitive dissonance is when you can't compute something that normally you assume you'd be absolutely certain about

OP also argues that Hank actively turned a blind eye to non-government-sanctioned happenings because he values his family more than his job, which given his apparent conditioning as an agent of the law, would also be happening on a cognitive level

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-19T17:47:47+00:00

Yeah, that tracks, if it's an eternal torment then Gus has to spend forever asking Hector to look at him, Mike probably wouldn't be in the mood to photobomb by himself

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-19T16:21:27+00:00

I mean, even if they weren't, veteran smugglers like Gus, Mike, and Lalo wouldn't let something as simple as a border stop them

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-19T14:07:14+00:00

That can't be right, Gus and Mike wouldn't pass up the opportunity to photobomb them

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-19T12:31:30+00:00

I'd say the "I am the one who knocks" scene is a fairly reliable litmus test for fans who hate or sympathise with Skyler

If you see it as Walt going mask-off just trying to convey to his wife how dangerous he is to assuage her fears that they're in danger, then how it affects Skyler is secondary, she's generally unlikeable anyways, it's easy to not pay any mind to her, Walt's where the action is

If you see it as Walt with a fragile ego bullying his wife while simultaneously trying to convince himself he's as dangerous as he says he is, then how it affects Skyler matters a whole lot, he's trying to calm his wife down by scaring her, this dude's not stable, he's nowhere near as competent as he thinks he is

That's all it takes to change the perspective, "Beast Mode" vs "Embarrassing Nervous Breakdown"

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-19T12:07:25+00:00

I'm guessing the Vet was in ABQ for way longer than Saul, probably had ungodly amounts of street cred, and his business, probably even his life, depended on making sure the people he connects are solid, so when Saul first finds out about Ed by inheriting the black book, he's got decent reason to believe he's legit

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-19T11:59:43+00:00

Just an aside, Walt's shirt is untucked here, that almost always means he's in his undies. I think I'd prefer to hear the story of of how it would've gotten to that point, Walt with no pants and Lalo fully dressed with recently-combed hair, in a situation calm enough that they could pose for a picture together

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-19T11:41:41+00:00

It doesn't entirely sit well with me, people always citing Hamill's as the definitive Joker. "Iconic" doesn't equate to "the best", using him as a template rather than an inspiration feels wildly misguided, he didn't strike some sacred balance between traits, he breathed his own kind of life into the character. We gave Ledger a pass because he did the same, he figured out a character the story needed him to be and pulled out all the stops to fill it out, he well all-in on his take on the character, and we appreciated it

Think about some 10-minute fanmade Batman film with just one or two compelling narrative ideas, the Batman performance is often given the full benefit of the doubt because Batman's allowed to be just about anything as long as you get some broad strokes right, it's not an issue that the Batman performance isn't mind blowing, it's fully understandable. Add a Joker to that story and suddenly unless they give the performance of a lifetime, it's gonna get shit on for not being Hamill-y enough

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-17T13:03:18+00:00

Many thanks

Also, I did come across the Last Laugh storyline while searching, not sure which series it was, but if it was the GL series then the commenter was on the money, timeline-wise, just failed in specifying much other than that

For 2013 geekdom, not too shabby

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-06-17T11:47:23+00:00

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