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Seated for The Odyssey!

Shoulda called them Bero’s Journey

Boomerang: "I'm doing my part!"

I went to Dave’s Hot Chicken to get the X-Men box and I got a Madelyne Pryor / Rachel Summers / Typhoid Mary / Mayday Parker / Spider-Queen / Firestar (but definitely NOT Jean Grey)!

@ffionlewis97 @NewRockstars Today!

@eavoss @NewRockstars Are there any more SM Brand New Day content coning soon?

Was that truly the best episode of House of the Dragon? What's going on with our favorite prophetic bug girl, Helaena... Westeros' future chicken farmer? Watch our in-depth breakdown of "Queen's Landing" on @NewRockstars! Link in replies!

My mistake. Bilquis was given a reference image of Lexo Sooger for her plate print, and the prop in the scene was similar, but as you say, not exact. I wasn't trying to peddle disinformation as a way to crap on the movie, I just got it wrong and thought it was weirdly similar / repurposed. But overall, my bad.

Hey @NewRockstars @eavoss please fact check your videos– Supergirl did not have a repurposed prop from The Last Jedi. It’s just a similarly designed creature, and a poster artist got the wrong reference material.

You seem to have made the same mistake the filmmakers did. A literal reading of the above page leads one to think Kara killed Krem here. But she didn’t. The yellow-block text is confirmed to be Ruthye’s “fiddle-faddle fiction” that she wrote in her book. It’s unreliable narration. It’s a lie. Ruthye wrote that to make the Brigands think Kara killed Krem on the beach. Tom King has confirmed this, and you can read it for yourself on the other page of the comic. Kara isn’t even implied by that yellow block text to kill Krem here on this page — Ruthye’s talking about the earlier time on the beach in that narration. Which readers knew to be a lie. Yes, it is a somewhat ambiguous ending that relies on unreliable narration. Some readers in the past five years have debated what really happened. But it literally is this: Ruthye hit Krem on the head with her cane, and both of them walked away leaving him alive, and Ruthye wrote in her book that Kara had already killed him on the beach. Additionally it looks like the filmmakers at least at some point thought that *Ruthye* kills Krem in the comic, which was never, ever even remotely the case.

@eavoss So you didn't read the comic?

Welp, looks like the director and screenwriter of Supergirl straight up misread the ending of the Woman of Tomorrow source material, and no one, literally no one, corrected them.

@DPAbramson A deliberate change of an understood ending, fine. Proving that you didn’t fully read or understand the ending of something you’re adapting is a major issue.

@eavoss And? Hollywood has changed the endings to source material that sold many more copies and had even more critical acclaim than Woman of Tomorrow did and the world didn't end. The original remains to be enjoyed on its own and the film should be treated the same way.

Re: Guardians... not always. Yes, Peter Quill often reverts back to his mix tape, which brilliantly does play dietetically in the context of every scene. But specifically for the cathartic climax of Vol 1, when all the Guardians join hands to share the burden of the Power Stone, it's not a needledrop there -- it's Tyler Bates' original score. It's great and it fills our hearts and keeps our focus on the heroes coming together. The music may be less memorable than other recognizable needledrops throughout the film, but that's the point. The music serves the scene, and it doesn't distract or take away from the scene like needledrops always have the risk of doing. I'm sure there are examples of movies out there where the cathartic climax is accompanied by a needledrop. But it has to be earned, it has to minimize whiplash, it has to be a specific track that the audience universally says "of course!" the moment they hear it. I feel like there are less than 1% of movies that have that kind of uniquely symbiotic relationship with a pre-existing track (that wasn't specifically composed for the film). But I don't want to say it can never work.

@eavoss I personally feel like it’s okay if more films make scores with lyrics. Now make it original instead of what was done. What works in the Guardians though is that it’s all played in universe when it happens every time. Peter is always hearing it. Maybe Kara needed that.

“Credits” or “blames”?

Those weren't the cathartic climaxes of those films. Joyrides, victory laps, just vibing, general tone-setting... go for it! But for the moment everything comes together, when the hero actively proves they've changed, it's a huge risk to entrust the emotional charge of that to the viewer hopefully having the same association to a pre-existing song, and its cover, that you do. For Guardians Vol 3, Rocket's retribution on the High Evolutionary was scored by the composer. For Spiderverse, Miles demonstrating to his variants, in the collider space, that he had acquired the skills and confidence to be a worthy Spider-Man, that was scored by the composer. If you personally vibed with the needledrop, I'm sorry to yuck your yum. But if you feel this defensive of it, you're gonna end up going 100 rounds with the rest of us who were completely taken out of a moment due to yet another soft-vocal stripped down instrumental cover of a punk / rock song on a piece of major IP media. Nothing wrong with the song itself or the cover. But it was a big risk in a moment that needed to safely stick the landing.

@eavoss Imagine the hallway scene in Guardians 3 without the beastie boys but was Orchestral wouldn’t hit as hard. Or SpiderVerse when miles puts on his own Costume WHAT UP DANGER

@jowrotethis Everything, everything’ll be alright, alright

Good morning I’m still thinking about the worst needle drop in cinema history which hits in the last act of SUPERGIRL. . . A very bad movie.

@BrandonDavisBD @TheEricGoldman You even let them hit the table? I'm jump-balling those sticks!

@TheEricGoldman idk this is what i do when i see the mozzarella sticks hitting the table

She's very talented, she's very beautiful, and yet it's also very funny for me to imagine a photographer saying "Now crawl across the top of the table and lick that knife" because how is your first reaction not “Wait, what now?”

@DiscussingFilm This is like one of those movies produced by Vought Studios in the world of The Boys

The logline & trailer for Jonathan Majors' new film for The Daily Wire has been revealed: “When radical Islamic terrorists hijack a liberal college’s pro-Palestine encampment to enforce Sharia law on students, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard tired of ‘Uncle Tom’ smears & a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers & keep America from surrendering to the enemy on its own soil.”

mmm just let me slice it and eat it like cake 🤤

@__X0TW0D__ @Sksj002 Three videos lol

@Sksj002 Yes. @eavoss has a great video explaining how this makes sense

Do people seriously think Marvel would introduce a rebooted Jean Grey (Sadie Sink) before giving the Fox X-Men universe a proper send-off? Especially when Cyclops is still there. Something doesn’t add up.

@nu_marcus @RingerVerse Mal, Jo, and I are all wearing Batman colors

@RingerVerse @eavoss did erik and mal plan to wear matching shirts 😭

“Now is not the time for fear... that comes later.” The Dark Knight Rises pod w/ @eavoss coming soon! 🙌