With great power, comes great respect. So close. It’s the perfect line for an eventual villain. It’s funny because it’s clear Norman saw this failure with Otto, but I’m guessing he won’t be able to see it in himself.

Also Otto got wrapped up nice and easy. A little surprised, curious to see what happens next.

Raimi Otto confirmed strongest Otto.

Also that fight was brutal. Spider-verse death vibes.

This was an amazing episode, top five for sure.

I wonder what Daredevil was looking for, because I’m not sure that Norman was lying. I expected him to lie to Peter so we the audience saw the heel turn. Daredevil tracing Otto’s work back to OsCorp makes sense. Otto, having previously worked for OsCorp, stealing from them also makes sense.

But also what was the other intern doing on the top floor?

There don’t seem to be parallels to most of the communities I belonged to on Reddit.

One adjustment I had to make when I moved over to Lemmy is posting/commenting more. On Reddit most of the time your comment was buried. On Lemmy, a bunch of people are going to see it.

Not saying you need to be the only poster, but sometimes everyone just posting a bit more will reveal a community.

I mean what they can do I’ve said. What I expect is a lot more damage from the Trump administration. Democrats are generally on board with reigning the administration in and/or stopping it, depending on what happens.

Unfortunately the majority for most things sit with Republicans, so it will be slow getting them to respond to Trump. I expect a few Republicans will chime in from time to time, might help stop a few things. Of course Congress lacks the resources to enforce things, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens there.

Eventually Trump is going to go too far. I would argue he already has, but specifically he’s going to go too far for Republicans. The speaker, Johnson, is the one to watch. I think McConnell still has some sway, but he’s also clearly very ill physically. Actually Republicans that are usually quiet are probably the ones to watch first.

Like you said, it’s a big multiverse. I expect when we get a big multiversal film, like Secret Wars, we’ll get lots of fun variations, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bucky with a shield.

But in the mainline MCU, I think Sam is the new Cap and will be for a while.

Dems have no choice but to confirm her through.

That was the Bernie plan in 2016 & 2020 during the primaries. Clinton had the support of the established Democratic party and with superdelegates Clinton took a commanding lead. Similar situation with Biden, most dropped out before Super Tuesday and endorsed him.

Now both of these instances could be considered “smart politics”. If you’ve got the political maneuvering to win the primary, then maybe you’ve got the same maneuvering to win the general.

It didn’t work out for Clinton. It did work out for Biden.

When we look at our most recent election, it’s clear there was a little bit more of a rift, but Harris was chosen and there was no primary.

Now, some of this is simplified and there is plenty to argue. But suffice to say we can’t just vote for AOC “so much” that she’ll win. I don’t see the Democratic party supporting her.

Now it’s too early to talk about 2028 realistically and a lot can change between now and then, but if she were running today she’d have my vote.

Yes, what congress WILL do versus what they SHOULD do are different things.

If you look at things like the recent Gaza statements by Trump I think it’s clear Trump is going to continuously step over the line and others will need to walk it back. Eventually that someone will be congress, I just hope it’s sooner rather than later, although I fear it will be later rather than sooner.

What do you propose that they do?

Impeach and remove Trump. Yes, a Vance administration might do the same things but Congress would make it clear they’re not willing to allow such bullshit.

Or subpoena Musk and others, which I know recently failed a vote to do exactly that.

Congress CAN do a lot of things, they were designed to be a powerful pillar of government. They have ceded much of that power through inaction over the years but they can take it back.

https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture

And reading an article from TechCrunch,

“The social network has a Twitter-like user interface with algorithmic choice, a federated design and community-specific moderation.”

“Is Bluesky decentralized? Yes. Bluesky’s team is developing the decentralized AT Protocol, which Bluesky was built atop.”

“However, the launch of federation will make it work more similarly to Mastodon in that users can pick and choose which servers to join and move their accounts around at will.”

So it definitely is pitching that is it decentralized and federated. Maybe the argument is that it “will be”, but at the moment it is not and at the moment it does not look like it will be an actual possibility.

Now people leaving Twitter is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s possibly just kicking the can down the road. In a few years we’ll likely have articles complaining about missing “Old Bluesky” and how “new Bluesky” has the exact same problems that “Old Twitter” had.

• There was this part in the Emerald City sequence where these two women appeared on screen, and the audience cheered. I’m not familiar with the musical, so I’m assuming they are the actresses from the original.

Lol, yes. It was Kristin Chenoweth who played Glinda and Idina Menzel who played Elphaba. Idina also did a quick “ah-ahhhh”, which is the final note sung in the film, which was a fun little “spoiler”. (Idina also plays Elsa, so if it sounded like Frozen, that’s why.)

• The setting of Oz, with all of its magic and whimsy, was so…inspiring. The songs, the costumes, and in general the vibes…whatever this is called, I need more of this in my life.

Steampunk, sorta? They definitely make everything more colorful, almost neon in a way.

I actually missed the first few minutes of the movie, but I made it just in time for the opening number and the title card.

I think all you missed was the setup that the Wicked Witch had been killed by water, as reported by Glinda. The rest of the opening explains in more detail, so plot wise not much missed, but the tone is one of sadness.

Glinda was such an unlikeable character at first, but I guess that was intentional to show her character development

You got it exactly. Both Glinda and Elphaba grow, specifically due to each other. There is a particular line discussing each of them “not having a care in the world” and the other realizing that no, they really do care.

My only complaint is that it felt too long

It’s funny they didn’t add too much from the Broadway show and yet the whole story will end up being double in length. However adding a quick scene here, an extra minute there and it quickly adds up.

As someone who complained about them splitting the movie up into two parts, I get it now. They really gave scenes time to breathe. You still could bring the runtime down, but once you hit 3 hours, it’s either trim or breathe, and I think they made the right choice.

The second film will likely be “worse”, but will have the advantage of tying up the loose plot lines, so it’ll even out.