Nah. More and more is coming out about how sketch the piece is. How it’s commissioned from people now fired from WB. New admin won’t be associated with it. How the writer left other reputable publications because they couldn’t defend Joss Whedon. Even other publications who tend to trash Snyder have called it out. They’ve been quietly editing it to avoid legal disputes. Original claim was only 6% abnormal. All to get a eye catching headline to distract when the movie was releasing on digital.
Heard the newer administration at WB is attempting to repair damage. Not so much comic book related. But internal politics have been fucked and what once was considered a filmmaker’s studio turned actively hostile under the last two heads. Why you had Nolan jump to Universal. And they spend a couple hundred million to get JJ Abrams to develop projects that went nowhere? When the WB and Discovery thing happened, yeah, almost everybody was fired.
Too much nerd caring for a day. Gonna go lift weights after this.
There's some simmering capeshit / culture war bullshit about the xmen in the MCU thats inevitably going to boil over whatever gets announced, between the "CAST ANYTHING BUT A WHITE MAN" crowd for magneto / xavier, and the "THATS RIGHT, DENY A JEWISH HOLOCAUSE SURVIVOR" crowd
Don’t know about Moonknight, but saw a similar thing there. People upset he wasn’t Jewish in the show. Typically went “no other marvel character expresses their religion!” “daredevil and ms marvel do” “…that’s different.” Alright. Whatever.
The Magneto thing, I get the point about aging. Yes you have to ignore that Captain America, Antman, Miss Marvel, and various other characters don’t age or age slowly. And time travel existing. And alternate universes. Etc etc. But within the comics, I half remember reading X-men issues at the local comic store, amidst the BO clouds, where Magneto was de aged or cloned into a character called Joseph? There was a love triangle with him, Rogue, and Gambit? They could do that shit.
Xavier being a POC is cool. He’s old money, which was an interesting contrast to Magneto’s upbringing. But easy to hand wave imo. Would anybody complain if Ken Watanabe or Ving Rhames were Xavier?