You'll have to forgive me if I don't drop the short that introduces the sonic screwdriver's "murder" mode into the Who watch guide lol (it looks stupid right now but it'll be...less stupid when TV is finally on Letterboxd).

I do think it's frickin hilarious that a Weeping Angel was able to actively chase an Olympic torch-bearer through the stadium, because that implies not a single person in the cheering crowd (that continues to cheer in reaction to the happenings…

I was wondering when a secret recording would find its way online, since apparently Sony doesn't want this to be available (at the time of posting) to the wider public? It's a shame there's no way for us to watch it...

Anyway, I'm not that bothered by the lack of release now that I've seen it. Is it competent? Absolutely; it's hard to get this concept flat-out wrong. But that also signals the short's shortcoming: it doesn't do much to…

Stand-in for Loki season 2

I'll get a more elaborate review up when season 2 properly comes to Letterboxd with the TV update (Bring it on PLEASE!), but here's the short and sweet of it:

That finale...what occasional low points there were this season, it was all worth it. WHAT. A. REMINDER. of the power of this universe. That's coming from someone who'd been convinced that ability of the MCU to drop jaws was dead and gone (with Gunn's good-bye…

It's a good thing Groot is actually pretty funny in this, because the Watcher's live commentary has never really worked for me. I don't know if it's that it feels like explaining the joke or if they've just yet to figure out how to write exasperation, but from the "Oof...that happened" in What If...? 105 to the flabbergast...ment? -edness? here over a kid doing kid things, it doesn't jive with me when the Watcher is apparently compelled to interject some…

Things like Groot capably piloting a spacecraft a short time after being incapable of distinguishing between dissimilar objects (let alone differentiating between two buttons beside each other, both scenarios occurring in Vol. 2) - but more importantly, actually breaking his speech pattern to gasp "I'm Groot!" - are what incline me to categorize this series as non-canon. (Prior instances include Groot making dolphin noises [maybe that's just his internal experience], Rocket needing reading glasses [...maybe he got treatment after Magnum…