Emmet Asher-Perrin

Are the Fantastic Four Leading a Planet-Wide Cult in Their Universe? - Reactor Sorry, they let Sue Storm do what?

I'm just asking questions! (pretty sure it's true, though)

Fantastic Four: First Steps Seems Intent on Proving That You Can’t Make a Good Fantastic Four Movie - Reactor Fans hoped that getting folded into the MCU would fix the team’s track record on film. It’s clobbering time?

This one hurt. (Maybe just watch the first and final ten minutes?)

We Don't Love Superman Because He'll Save Us - Reactor Superman gives audiences hope — but not as a straightforward savior narrative.

Everyone wants to talk about Superman saving the squirrel, or saying I love you 3 months into dating, or holding a dying robot, and I just wanna shake them and shout "And *why* do you like that part??"

(This is why.)

Some Thoughts About Spock's Chest Hair - Reactor Or: We Need to Talk About Vulcan Manscaping on Strange New Worlds

The Vulcan underground depilation community must be *wild*. Wild, I say.

Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm thinking about when I watch TV.

Superman Cracks a Long-Forgotten Code to Its Central Character - Reactor The movie is over-stuffed, but who cares when being kind is the new punk rock?

I don't care if it's overcrowded, give me every superhero story where we skip origins, always.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Renewed for Fifth and Final Season - Reactor Captain Pike and his crew will close out with six final episodes.

I know this is a losing battle and yet! I will die on this hill:

SIX EPISODES IS NOT A SEASON IT IS A MINISERIES

You can never go wrong with that one

The wildest slap in the face! Undercutting all the incredible work they did. I'll never understand it.

The thing I realized as we put these lists together is that, regardless of subject matter or genre, I have 2 main desires: slapstick soulmate shenanigans or *gay ennui*

Even the stuff that didn't make the list pretty much always hit those two categories.

That is genuinely so gratifying to hear! Thanks so much

Anywho, here are all my Andor recaps in one place:

Andor’s Participation in One Tired Trope Is Uniquely Infuriating - Reactor Those final shots really pull the rug out from under the whole thing.

Those last twenty seconds nearly ruined the entire show for me. I'm going to pretend they never happened.

Aahhh, thanks so much! Always glad to hear something still resonating 💕

Mickey 17 Offers Catharsis in Uncertain Times - Reactor What if there was a version of yourself who was actually willing to fight for you?

Get thee to a theater, trust me, just go.

My body is on some kinda quest to destroy me (that's unfair, it hasn't caught a break in well over a year), but I have to admit, there is nothing objectively funnier than sneezing while wearing a neck brace.

Captain America: Brave New World Seems Incredibly Afraid of Its Own Audience - Reactor Weird how Captain America seems to be a backseat passenger in his own movie.

How'd everyone like the Thaddeus Ross movie where Captain America showed up sometimes? reactormag.com/captain-amer...

Lynch was a saint cloaked as a transgressor in a world full of transgressors cloaked as saints.

From Lynch's family, in case you need more fuel for the tears:

"There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'"

Coming in the wake of news around a certain author, it feels like such an unjust blow when Lynch - a guy obsessed with the darkness in our collective natures - by all accounts I've ever read, provided meaningful artistic spaces to explore those things, rather than using that fascination to hurt.

David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.

This is the exact opposite of what this week needed.

Are We Gonna Talk About the Deeply Dystopian World of Hot Frosty? - Reactor With a town sheriff who thinks he's starring in Die Hard and a love interest with the mind of a child, what's romantic about this?

It just seems like folks have real strange ideas about what constitutes "holiday cheer" and "romance" and also "use of image consent."

Updated my voter registration!

Which is wildly difficult to figure out when you've got a name change in NY (it's in a very weird place and the website only suggests you go change it in person, which, no), and these past weeks have been *rough* so this is my major win for the time being.

James Earl Jones was supposed to live forever, what the FUCk is going on here.

Against All Odds, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Shows Us How to Make Sequeldom Fun - Reactor We still want to be strange, I see? Okay. Let’s go.

It's so cool what you can do when you want to be creative with your pals instead of pressuring everyone to make a billion dollars in a weekend?

...That's probably not the takeaway they wanted me to have.

That Megalopolis Trailer Snafu Sure Could Teach Us a Lot About Art Criticism - Reactor Let's talk about that extremely awkward marketing decision, and what it says about our relationship to cultural criticism.

Hope you wanna hear about that Megalopolis trailer clusterfuck because my brain will NOT shut up about it.

It's not HBO, so incredibly doubtful

Modern ‘Dorian Gray’ Series In Works At Netflix From Katie Rose Rogers, Rina Mimoun & Berlanti Prods. The Picture Of Dorian Gray is getting a TV series treatment with The Grays, which is in development at Netflix. It hails from Berlanti Productions.

Hi this is my Joker origin story??

Brothers. Dorian and Basil are being made into BROTHERS.

Francis, have you never once had a therapy about this, you've had HALF A CENTURY

This is all we can talk about this morning

A post on Threads from author Hugh Howey, reading: Why are artists scared of AI? Someone was already stealing your work. Almost everyone was already better than you. There has always been more content than consumers. Making a living has never been easy. Are you making art to be the best? To get rich? You would have failed and been miserable at any time in history. Are you making art because you need it like oxygen? Carry on, then.

You have to love these flaccid Calvinist hot takes by highly successful people. Systemic inequality is good, actually, bc it allows the elect to demonstrate their profound virtue and genius. If you are truly pious, you will achieve prosperity via God's special underwear gnome economics