The notion of a circa 2018/19 Brie Larson leading a 150 million dollar superhero movie is one that, at least in this particular movie, does not pay off. But it is critically a choice and even a risk, one that reflects the indie centric ambitions that similarly fail to materialise, but are reflected, throughout the film.
Yes this is not a runaway success by any means but I do think there is something subtextually interesting about this particular production that…
Empire of Death
Oh no, it's the threatiest threat that the universe has ever seen and it's going to destroy everything and the doctor is very sad and the universe will never be the sam- oop he did a thing and saved the day hooray.
Probably pisses me off more than most of these episodes because so much of this is dedicated to wheel spinning and overly serious narrative procrastination, how many times do I need to see someone mourn this giant world ending threat that is completely dramatically inert and why does this take so damn long to do such predictable beats?
