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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 9198578" data-attributes="member: 6750908">I have cried, as a whole-ass grown-ass man, over the narratives of more video games than TV/movies-- and I can tally either on the fingers of one hand.[hr][/hr]Terminator: Dark Fate is the second-best feature film in the franchise, and is the natural ending of the "trilogy" on every level. If it had been produced and published before the last three sequels, we would still be talking about how brilliant it was today.I'm actively listening to No Fate: A Terminator Podcast right now, in anticipation of a massive Terminator RPG campaign I intend to run-- so I'm not normally this fixated on the franchise, but it's definitely Top Five for me.Every iteration of the Terminator franchise-- every feature film, every book or comic, the TV series-- represents a different (and not necessarily consecutive) iteration of the Connor/Skynet timeloop. Discontinuities between them might not be intentional on the part of the filmmakers, but some of them are deliberate signposts to indicate the story is taking place in a different timeline than the others. There are an infinite-infinite number of iterations of this loop, but the only stable endstate of the conflict is a post-Judgment armistice between the machines and the Resistance.[hr][/hr]Peter Parker is a textbook example of Narcissistic Personality Disorder-- much moreso than Tony Stark-- and this actually makes him much more interesting as a character than the stereotypical White Knight who is occasionally, inconsistently, written as a complete douchebag.The inmates have been running the asylum at Marvel Editorial since One More Day, at least, and the way their writers and editors discuss the situation indicates they don't give a damn about their fanbase and don't understand why they should care about their fanbase. They've fully embraced their role as the feeding trough for the writers and directors at Marvel Studios and there's simply no reason left to care about any of the characters or the storylines until they've been picked up (and picked through) the dross they're printing.The entire X of X story arc is aggressively bad, antithetical to everything the X-Men-- and Marvel Comics-- have stood for in the fifty years preceeding it, and the interesting redemption arcs for former X-villains simply do not and can not make up for all of the former X-heroes suddenly and uncharacteristically spouting Magneto's mutant supremacist rhetoric.</blockquote>

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