Thread by @AlexandraErin

Patrick Stewart saying "It really happened, there's the proof" in Charlie's Angels (2019) of him photoshopped into the previous two movies has the same energy as Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2 saying "Look it's me, I'm here, deal with it. Let's move on."

It's really interesting to me that they decided to bridge the continuities in that way, because the earlier Charlie's Angels movies obviously aren't "canon" to this one because the Bosley he's replacing in Charlie's Angels (2000) died between films.

But this is honestly my favorite approach to canon: "broad strokes" continuity where you can assume that all the Broccoli Bond films pre-Daniel Craig "basically happened" in the universe of each new film, except where that's now impossible.

Daniel Craig's films make a clean break, until Skyfall which gets sentimental about anniversaries and so retroactively introduces some elements of previous versions, even when it doesn't particularly make sense.

But pivoting back to Charlie's Angels... the idea that some form of the Full Throttle movies happened in the universe of this one implies there was a period around the turn of the century where the Townsend Agency swore off guns, then came back to them.

I love that Jane figures out that Hodak is only pretending to write in the cafe by the sound - he isn't hitting the space bar often enough.

I know we're not getting a franchise out of this movie but I wish franchises would stop putting Djimon Hounsou in things and then killing his character off.

At least Marvel made room for him in flashback films.

I also love Ella Balinska's reaction shot for Jane learning her friend and mentor's name only after he died.

Holy cats, Langston (Elena's assistant/Jane's flirtation) was played by Peter from To All The Boys.

I know adults playing teenagers is pretty much the norm, but the fact that I saw him in a teen romcom just a year before this comes out makes that weird to think about.

I love how Langston just sort of falls into helping Jane set up a Rube Goldberg flash bomb out of lab chemicals without a word of explanation.

He must have spent the whole movie thinking he was part of some weird corporate espionage against his company (which, he kind of was) and was probably weirdly relieved to find out it was "good guys" and not an amoral profit grab.