Lord Downey, opening the Assassins’ School for girls:
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One of the things that I love about Strange New Worlds is its complete willingness to play “Yes, and” even with unpopular or poorly written details that Discovery added to canon.
“Spock has a human foster sister!” Yes, and her loss and the fact that Discovery is classified is a burden that he has to bear in private every day.
“There was a major war with the Klingons just 10 years before TOS!” Yes, and we’re going to show the process of rebuilding, and how trauma from this war affects even beloved legacy characters like M'Benga and Chapel.
“Michael Burnham used the Red Angel suit to form a wormhole to the future!” Yes, and this wormhole was observed by a nearby primitive civilization, kicking off the plot of the first episode.
Personally, I love it so much better when writers are willing to play along with each other, rather than just ignoring or retconning what’s been established, like Picard season 3.
That says “5 years later, Sony still doesn’t understand why it’s biggest spider-verse hit worked”
And the article mainly talks about how the Venom films are self contained and don’t try to be films in a cinematic universe. They have a clear identity. Yes, there is no Spider-Man in them, and that’s okay because they knew what they wanted to do without him when they made the films. They even say at one point “the Venom films are not for everyone, but at least they know what they are”
This is something I personally have talked about many times. And I’ve seen other Venom fans talk about. And what I’m seeing MCU fans starting to say more and more now. The movies work when they have a clear story and identity and don’t feel interchangeable or formulaic.
You could take any Disney plus marvel show or ‘phase 4’ movie and switch the characters around and the story would probably stay largely the same, or at least feel the same. We all know what I mean right? The characters all make quips like Tony Stark no matter if it is in character or not. They talk and act the same.
But the Venom films? You couldn’t take Tom Hardy’s Eddie and swap him with the mcu cast. He acts so differently than 90% of them, he wouldn’t fit in. He’s fucking weird and unhinged and is very much Tom Hardy’s brain child.
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Also the Venom movies worked because queer people liked them. The films were hugely popular with LGBT audiences but you didn’t hear that from me 👀👀👀👀
I just wanted to draw long haired ambrosius ok? (that fcking twink) almost every friend of mine went on a trip without their phones for a week so I had an embarrassing amount of time to draw (it’s actually been a month since I drew this and I already kinda hate it)
