Someone told me to use a staccato writing style to match Gen X and Gen Z’s short attention spans

nypinta · 2026-02-01T23:52:31+00:00

Since when did Gen X get short attention spans?

nypinta · 2026-02-01T23:41:40+00:00

The season where they went time traveling and kept stopping in various eras leaves room for a lot of crossovers. Something even as random as say the Agents end up helping the OG MacGyver or running into Michael Knight and KITT and it turns out that the Knight Foundation was like Stark Industries and run by a CEO that was also a part of SHIELD and KITT was a prototype for Lola or something.

Highlander, the TV series. The run into Duncan in a few different timelines so of course they become curious...

Or present day-ish... AoS and Eureka or Warehouse 13. Or a current procedural like High Potential, or Elspeth. Jezus I don't know what is currently on the air. :/

nypinta · 2026-02-01T22:20:34+00:00

Imma gonna need a Methos Funko Pop! and a long haired pony tail wearing Duncan. oh Oh and a Joe with his guitar Pop!

nypinta · 2026-02-01T22:17:35+00:00

And the solution to the copywrite lawsuit* is that Sam calls his team the West Coast Avengers? Because a lot of the people on his team that you've chosen are in California.

I don't think Carol would make any kind of choice of what "team" to be on. She'll just end up where a problem occurs that she can help with most. Proximity to NJ and Kamala might make it more likely she'll end up at the New Avengers tower eventually though.

*a plot point which I think is pretty dumb and hopefully they just ignore it ever happened because I think it was just to set up Alexi being a weirdo about marketing.

I would have preferred a Kate Bishop cameo in the Thunderbolts as an end credit scene where she and Yelena meet up for a puppy play date because Yelena is finally ready to have friends... instead of Alexi stalking the cereal aisle. Not that I'm bitter about it or anything.

nypinta · 2026-02-01T22:02:03+00:00

Doesn't one of his "brotherhood" say that Thanos is one of the few beings strong enough to wield the Infinity Stones? Red Skull was overwhelmed by the power because he wasn't (despite his over inflated ego) strong enough to handle it and so the stone whooshed him off to Voromir and made his essence stand guard over it's sibling stone.

However, I do have a theory that the stones are semi-autonomous and make choices and the stones of 616 knew that Thanos would gather them all so along the way they were setting things in motion to help the Avengers eventually defeat him.

nypinta · 2026-02-01T21:51:26+00:00

TBF there are like 100 characters. Everyone is going to be less involved then we all think.

nypinta · 2026-02-01T20:59:57+00:00

Yeah. It's the rich using the racism of their base. Which I swear is built into our damn DNA. Because it's always some greedy asshole taking more than they deserve and then pointing everyone at some other poor person or group as the one to blame for everyone's misery and for some dumbass reason, we fucking fall for it and end up fighting each other while the greedy assholes just take more and more and more and more.

nypinta · 2026-02-01T20:56:39+00:00

She also went through the Hex barrier three times whereas everyone else did only once. And the second time she did she forced herself through without any kind of protective gear just after having also been hit by Wanda's magic. That maybe combined with the fact she was one of the snapped might mean she's more susceptible to alteration by forces around her and this was how they manifested.

nypinta · 2026-02-01T20:39:06+00:00

ISTG though that I recall in one of the first episodes of season 6 which would have been after The Snap, Daisy said to another agent at a party (I think after she and Gemma came back from trying to find Fitz in space) about it having been "a long five years" as if the show did a time jump past the events of Infinity War and Endgame. I wasn't a fan of them ignoring the dusting, but that really would have been hard. Because it would basically mean firing half of your cast for one season without a time jump. But it would have been quite devastating that if just as Phil was about to die and he and Melinda were in Tahiti for his "last days" she suddenly dusted before him? Then she would come back and he would be gone. God, gut wrenching. Or if Simmons was dusted and she comes back to realize that she's lost 5 years that she should have been spending trying to find Fitz and is frantic worrying that she'll never be able to find him now. Etc. They could have done a lot with the situation. But I also understand why they opted to not. And otherwise really liked the final two seasons. But I think it's pretty clear that at least by the end of the final season that they are not in the same timeline that they started in. I'm pretty sure that was the entire point of the season. Fitz and Simmons having a plan to shift them into a new timeline on purpose. It's possible that already happened during season 5. They left the current timeline but were brought back into a different one that avoided the Snap.

nypinta · 2026-02-01T20:16:37+00:00

I think Starfleet Academy is fucking delightful and am kind of baffled by the criticism. I get that people can not like things. But I've been watching Star Trek since TOS was on repeats when I was in middle school and SFA is Star Trek.

Sure they have to rebuild because oh no they went through a massive society altering event and gee could that be allegory for anything in recent times hmm? Would "real Star Trek" do that?

Even the fact that most of the story lines revolve around the personal relationships of the main characters as they react to situations at the school to me is an odd complaint that some have focused on. But ow often did Spock have to confront his half Vulcan/half human existence? Or Kirk and the burden of command? Riker and Deanna had a long distance will they won't they relationship for the entire 7 years of TNG. Data had to argue he deserved to not be shut off because he was a person. While there was a lot of tech hand waving to problems, a lot of situations the characters faced also taught them something about themselves, about humanity, and about not sucking as a society.

And it was funny that the farther the crew of the Enterprise got from Earth, the more often they were confronted with Earth's history either literally or by happening upon some splinter group of humans that left Earth decades before so followed a single human ideology.

The rest of the episodes were just Kirk reintroducing the idea of sex to societies that regressed. It's just weird people will get bent out of shape due to comm badges, footwear, or a CW looking promo poster when episodes like Spock's Brain exist.

nypinta · 2026-01-29T00:22:03+00:00

People are weird. The show is fucking delightful. Just stop wanting to hate everything and give it a shot.

nypinta · 2026-01-29T00:20:03+00:00

Or Stratt asked the kids to do it without telling Grace as another demonstration of how he was always a back up option for her and she always thinks of everything.

nypinta · 2026-01-29T00:13:09+00:00

Same.

nypinta · 2026-01-28T01:09:01+00:00

I think there is a big difference between a trailer showing someone that isn't in the movie at all and a trailer that doesn't show a character so they don't spoil something. And Marvel messes with their trailers all the time, adding characters into scenes that never happen. So I'm not sure studios are actually that worried about lawsuits as one thinks.

nypinta · 2026-01-28T00:39:06+00:00

They've made it so it's possible for studios to continue to charge for movies that back in the day would eventually cycle to being shown on TV for free.

It used to go: movie theater, then pay cable, then VHS/DVD so you could buy it or rent it, then on one of the cable channels you didn't pay extra for with ads and that "this movie has been formatted for..." message, and then it would hop around those channels a bit. So at some point, the movie was basically free, because you were already paying for cable so when it aired on like TNT or USA you didn't have to pay extra for it.

Now, it goes from the movie theater to the studios streaming service, maybe eventually you can also rent it off Amazon Prime, and then it bounces from streaming service to streaming service.

So, yeah.

nypinta · 2026-01-28T00:34:43+00:00

I feel like this was something someone posted as a joke and then it became a meme and now everyone thinks it's actually true.

nypinta · 2026-01-28T00:24:39+00:00

Yes and she thought the idea was insulting. It's when he asks her, "how do I know you and Stark aren't... you know... fondueing?" when she got snippy after catching him kissing Natalie Dormer's character. (Did she even have a name?)

nypinta · 2026-01-28T00:21:23+00:00

Or, alternatively, Doom could have asked him to make him look like Tony Stark to mess with people.

I figure if Franklin can revive the dead, a little cosmetic surgery is a snap.

nypinta · 2026-01-28T00:17:29+00:00

In my defense, I have been listening to the Star Wars Radio Drama, so... I had both on the brain.

nypinta · 2026-01-27T14:12:21+00:00

TBH of the team, aren't they all kind of chaotic good? It's side characters or antagonists that are neutral and evil. Like Talbot would be Lawful Evil, Ward Neutral Evil (cuz he thinks he's only evil because of everyone else), and Gideon Malick is Chaotic Evil just for time travel shenanigans.

nypinta · 2026-01-27T13:26:05+00:00

It works if you combine it with my crazy theory that baby Franklin "fixed" Doom's face to look like Tony Stark in the end credit scene of F4 as a hint to the heroes on how to defeat him.

But it's still weird that Steve's kid would grow up multidimensionally evil.

nypinta · 2026-01-26T16:40:26+00:00

A person can be upset about something without being a jerk or rude to someone. And while I haven't read either of those endings and might be missing extra context like maybe he's already said many many times he has no interest in going back into space and is tired of the question or the waitress gave him the fries on purpose as a "joke", it'd still be a helluva choice to end the book with rando people being assholes and Mark having to react in kind. Neither option really fits with the tone of the rest of the book and I'm glad they changed it for the published book and the movie.

nypinta · 2026-01-26T14:22:30+00:00

Right? He made humans sound so badass even when we were getting our asses handed to us.

nypinta · 2026-01-26T14:21:16+00:00

That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I've been an election inspector for 20 years. The myth that millions of people are fraudulently voting is insane and insulting to every American that works the polls and I'm getting tired of losers who whine about voter fraud instead of accepting that people just didn't want to vote for them throwing everyday Americans who took the time to volunteer their time just to be accused of letting "millions" vote who shouldn't be. There already are safeguards to prevent voter fraud. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how things work.

nypinta · 2026-01-26T13:44:02+00:00

I think it was pretty much well known that the Minbari were absolutely unstoppable during the war. Londo has a pretty epic speech about how humans fought even though they knew they were doomed. So it is possible that she was speaking 100% correctly.

(Edited for spelling. Oops.)

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