The Fish

It's frustrating as the stories are already there, tons of them. Stories that could speak to whatever societal issue the filmmakers want to address, or whatever arc they want to cover. Instead they're rushing something together which doesn't have the tone or pacing that the originals have. Daredevil on Netflix got it right. Arguably so did Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. The early Marvel films got it right. But everything post-Endgame has been pretty fucking bad, to be honest. (Spiderman - No Way Home aside). No confidence in Thunderbolts, the FF movie, etc. Edit - And there were really good films that were a real departure from the source material like Ragnarok and Guardians. So you don't have to treat the comics as fucking gospel. Even Blade, which should be low-hanging fruit sounds like it's lost in the reeds. And now they've announced Downey Jnr is playing Doom. Which is just misplaced fan service in my opinion.

Yeah, I mean there are plenty of really good female characters, or gay characters, or whatever. Unfortunately, the writing for their screen adaptations have been pretty poor. I thought Ms Marvel was pretty well done, although I clearly wasn't the target market. The other issue is the neck bearded incels who think themselves the gatekeepers of what Marvel films/tv should look like. Review bombing the shows, which means any legit criticism is lost among a sea of cheeto dust and cry wanks.

Her comics are good. Way bette than the portrayal on the tv show, which was a bit of a meta mess

Most of the Star Wars stuff is terrible, not just because it's aimed at kids, but objectively terrible. Mandalorian was decent, as was Andor. Rogue One was better than any of the Star Wars films that came after the first released trilogy, I'd say it's better than the 3rd of that lot as well. I think the issue is that there's a huge appetite for this stuff, but instead of marketing it straight at that fanbase and using that buzz to attract more people, they try to make it appeal to everyone, which it won't. Same thing is happening with the Marvel movies. They started with some of their lesser known IP and delivered to the comparatively small market something that it wanted. As it grew, they're now trying and failing to keep pace with similarly obscure characters marketed to a wider audience. And of course everything has to be tied together.

Flintoff is dead canny. Wife was pregnant with out first and we went to Altrincham market for lunch one Saturday. Place is an old market hall turned into a food hall with all the kinds of food places and popular with people that most of you lot would fucking hate. Anyway, it's absolutely rammed and we're scanning around for a table, wife is doing the tummy rubbing thing to emphasise her pregnant belly. All of a sudden this fucking mountain of a bloke stands and waves us over, it's only bloody Freddy Flintoff. He hurries his kids off the table and chats with the wife about how far along she is and all that as they clear away their stuff. He shakes my hand as he leaves and honestly I've never felt so emasculated. Hands like fucking shovels, all rough and manly. Unlike my soft, never-done-a-hard-days-graft- mitts.

Cheers, She's back home now. Got another antibiotics jab this afternoon and we need to see the ophthalmology department to make sure her eye is ok. Back to her usual smiley self though, thank fuck. Could have done with this happening while the little lad was at school, mind you.

Sleep deprived. Little'un has cellulitis, had to take her into A&E this morning after fuck all sleep last night. Poor thing was waking every 20 minutes. I've had to take the day off to parent the lad.

What's up there lil buddy. Did they not even let you watch last night?

Kid's even got a "foreign" name, but because he's from Sheffield United and not Osasuna, there isn't the excitement. It's daft.

She'll be fine, this is much ado about nothing.

They still need a grown up to give them a lift up to the bars though, like they're toddlers.

Orrrr wee man has thrown up on the Saturday night and must spend 48hrs away from the school?

I think the end points would have been the same, but how they got to those points would have been very different. There would have been (and maybe will be if he doesn't die first) a more gradual descent into madness for Dragon Tits, the defeat of the King Zombie would have been different, I'm sure. It's all moot anyway. End of the day, it was one of the last pieces of tv where episodes felt like an event.

Hasn't he finished other books between 5th and 6th? The shitbag

to-Oo-oo meeeeeeeeeeeee

He is until he isn't, that's how it works.

But we have 4 new signings? What is this nonsense?

It's no Band of Brothers, and that's for damned sure.

Sometimes the gore was shocking, (it's equally bad if not worse in the books), and yes there were tits aots but, the story telling, some characters' development, the subversion of expectations were superb. Some of the complaints people had about the 'speed that people could travel' were daft the second you consider that it's a tv show and the audience doesn't like "3 weeks later" time jumps. It fell apart in the later seasons, you'll hear no argument from me there.

Find some Customer Service Manager for the company on Linkedin, work out their company email, send them your complaint directly. Explain that you've been unable to get the help you need from their AI chat assistant, and have been bounced around departments. They should help you out.

No sign of the Americans, which is a surprise. I guess maybe they'd fare better if the targets were unarmed black men, or school children?

on his apple watch

Will the volleyball athletes be able to get over to Tahiti in time for the surfers to use them as boards?

Ah, I was right on board til you said this. Game of Thrones had some of the best tv moments of the past decade. The latter seasons were rushed and too eager to tie things off, but overall it was one of the best tv shows of all time. Bear is good, and creative, taught and mixes drama with pathos well, but it's not in the same league as GoT.