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  • It’s hard to say.

    For discussion threads I think it makes sense and that’s what I really want to see grow. When we only had films it was easier since you had only a few new films per week, and even less if you focused only on the blockbusters/comic book movies.

    Now with TV shows you’ve got a new episode every week.

    If you look at Reddit communities you had great discussion and memes week to week, and it only worked with folks hyper focused on the TV show.

    Ideally I’d have separate communities for each show, but that would be spread super thin.


  • If you’re a fan of Comic Book TV & Movies I want to highlight,

    We’re discussing the latest MCU films and TV shows. Agatha All Along is airing right now, but we’re also excited for next year with Captain America: Brave New World & Thunderbolts*.

    We’re also open to discussing Sony’s terrible Marvel films like Venom and Madam Web. And I’m looking forward to Sony’s excellent Marvel films like Spider-verse.

    Of course to be fair I’ve also reignited,

    It’s just discussing The Penguin TV series at the moment, but as James Gunn and Peter Safran put together their DCU I expect we’ll talk about it a lot more. Also the upcoming Joker sequel. If it’s DC it’s fair game.

    And of course for either community if you just want to visit after watching the latest film or TV show, that works too.



  • It was a fantastic first episode.

    I really think villains are the perfect place for TV shows. You get so much time to understand them and root for them.

    I expect the Batman sequel film will deal with the fallout of this series. Although I hope better yet it deals with a different villain, and we can get Penguin season 2 where he rises further and picks up the scraps. Then by the (hopefully) third film we’ll have a fully developed Penguin.

    (Also I started a discussion thread over in https://lemmy.world/post/20196490 )

    (Also also, unless something changes the legacy DCEU is over, The Batman/Penguin story being told here exists in “Elseworlds” canon, and the new DCU (James Gunn/Peter Safran) starts with Superman in 2025 and will presumably someday have a new Batman as well, different from this story.)










  • Trump has spent his entire life trying to get into “the club”. The specific “club” he was trying to get into was the Hollywood one for many years. The Apprentice got him close, but the “reality TV” club isn’t quite the same as the “Hollywood club”. Luckily, for Trump, it was enough to get him into the political club. I’m still not quite sure how, but it was. How it got him into the presidential club is even further baffling, but he did that too. Don’t get me wrong, I understand how he got elected. But I don’t understand how he survived the primaries. (I mean I do, but I’m just sad about it.)

    But Trump, assuming he loses the upcoming election, is on his way out.

    You’re probably right that he’ll never be in jail. He’ll never serve a day in prison. But he’ll be in court. He’ll be in court until the day he dies. It’s not perfect. It’s not what he deserves. But it’s what’ll happen, and I’ll take that.



  • So I’m going to try and bridge the gap here since this is a weirdly toxic thread and I hope just by old (? Fuck I hope I’m not old) people. I’m a millennial, so here we go.

    Chappell Roan is a Gen Z musician. I legitimately couldn’t name a single one of her songs. I’ve been told “here, listen to this” more than a dozen times. I still have no idea.

    As she mentions in this video this is her third presidential election. She has never voted in an election where Donald Trump wasn’t the Republican nominee.

    Think about that for a minute. Seriously. Imagine only viewing Republicans as the party of Trump. How fucked up is that? Hillary v Trump. Biden v Trump. Harris v Trump.

    Remember voting for Hope in '08? I don’t care what you think about Obama now. Remember '08 Obama? You voted against McCain. Do you know how much I wish I could vote FOR McCain now? How much I wish I could vote FOR Romney now? We live in a fucking twilight zone now. I’m thrilled to vote for Harris and Biden before her. Biden for the last four years has been fucking bliss. Harris for the next four years is a god send.

    But Biden isn’t above criticism. Harris isn’t above criticism. They are when compared to the orange blob but you can’t live in that fucking world.

    It’s fucked up when you look at the world we’re in now. Some random gen z musician says I can’t endorse Harris? I get it. I’ve been there. She sure as shit isn’t endorsing Trump but to look at Harris and go “Fuck Yeah!”… that just isn’t happening.

    Trump had pulled us SOOOOOO FARRRR off course. He’s ruined an entire generation. An entire generation, gone, wasted to Trump. It’s fucking horrible.

    Gen Z, bless their hearts, didn’t go through what we went through. Luckily we’re homies with Gen Z. I’m not sure we fully understand each other but at the end of the day we agree with each other.

    I don’t want to leave them out but Gen X stared this fight. Us Millennials kept it going. And finally we have the numbers with Gen Z. We’re going to move forward. We’re going to move past Trump. (If you can fucking vote this round GET OFF YOUR FUCKING ASS.)

    Chappell Roan is your little sister. I don’t care that you don’t know who she is. She’s on our side. She’s speaking honestly. She isn’t quite as jaded as you are. She’s got a following. I don’t care what Taylor Swift said either, but she’s right. She agrees. We need to move forward.

    I get it. She didn’t endorse Kamala. Whatever. She ultimately agrees with her. Not on everything. We still got work to do. We know Kamala is the next step. We understand this takes multiple steps. Voting for multiple steps isn’t sexy. “What do we want” “Change” “When do we want it” “Slowly over the next several years” That isn’t sexy. But bus stops aren’t sexy.

    We’re taking a bus. You’re there. A weird dude is there wearing a cape. A weird lady is there petting a Beanie Baby. I don’t want to get on the bus either, but it’s going the way I want to go, so I’m getting on.

    Join us.