The reason Venture Bros is a better superhero parody than others is not because "it loves superheroes" but because it loves so many other things that aren't superheroes. I've been catching up on The Boys and Harley Quinn, and while they're fun, their writing feels so impersonal. They feel less like an expression of the creators' interests, and more like a slurry of popular internet jokes and things your coworkers talk about.

I don't blame people for calling Omni-Man an edgy evil Superman because the cartoon turned him into EXACTLY that.

It is the main reason I hate the show.

https://twitter.com/BasedPota18/status/1659615862695837711

Maybe it's cause of the recent leaked news about Omni-Man and Homelander being DLCs in the upcoming Mortal Kombat game, but I am angry at how the Invincible cartoon wrote Omni-Man again.

People talks in that quippy dialogue way in Marvel movies because those movies couldn't help being reactions to their source material. It's the writers and directors of the film looking at stuff that comic book creators made and said "Really? That's what you're doing?" But because they're officially branded by Marvel, they blur the lines between the people behind the source material and the people behind the adaptations. To the public, it's Marvel making fun of Marvel.

every time i hear anyone say "adventure games were dead in the 2000s" i think about how phoenix wright games became a global sensation in 2005 and how the only reason for the decline of adventure games was western developers not giving handheld consoles the respect it deserves some of the replies to this are saying modern adventure games have forgotten what made the classic ones good. but i think the genre's attachment to the classics is WHY they struggled to grow for so long.

ok i am definitely not here for "people like justin roiland is why we shouldnt put individual creative leads above others in a project" takes. that is what corporations want you to think. no let's not examine why abuse cases like these tend to be perpetrated by white men and instead blame it on appreciating artists over brands.

ok i saw the first two episodes of velma. i didnt like it, but i also didnt like the first season of harley quinn or lower decks. and now i love those shows. so

if i hear it gets better, i'd give it another shot. Velma's problem is the opposite of the problem with Star Trek: Lower Decks' first season.

Lower Decks was too excited to be a Star Trek show and had to calm down. Velma despises shows about teenagers and can't do anything that's a given for the genre without rolling its eyes.

i think one of the worst things you can do to your own mental health is consuming a piece of entertainment for no reason other than to form a hot take on it. anyway im gonna watch velma now. okay so mindy kaling saw rick and morty and thought "oh, no one can criticize me if I criticize myself first!"