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Stephen Tobolowsky worked with David Byrne, the lead of Talking Heads, as the two worked together on the movie True Stories. Tobolowsky said on the Nerdist podcast:
“So I sat and told David the story of me hearing tones. And he looked and says, “You’re kidding!” And I said, “No, David, that’s really the story but I don’t do it anymore, I don’t like to do it anymore, it was too creepy, and I don’t like to do it anymore.”
So anyway -- sure enough, a year later, David has written into True Stories a character that hears tones, and he wrote the song. That day he came over and played “Wild Wild Life.” He says, “Here is a song that I wrote for you, Stephen.” And we put it in the thing, and it was “Radio Head.””
Just an insane connection that shocked me. Jack Barker of all characters’ actors.

I was rereading Hickman’s FF and just needed to acknowledge how genius of a villain The Wizard is, especially directly for Reed.
Doom’s deal is that he knows deep down that Reed is smarter than him, but this is something he would never admit out loud. Doom takes wildly different approaches than Reed in terms of his use of magic and how different his technology is. He’s much more of a direct opposite to Reed, while maintaining the intelligence.
The Wizard, on the other hand, is significantly more similar to Reed. He admits that he is “equal” to Reed (even if Reed is clearly smarter), using similar technological advancements for evil.
He overtly mirrors Reed in leading the Frightful Four, who are also themselves a mirror of the FF. Doom works alone, while The Wizard has no qualms working with others.
He has actual, real respect for Reed, a favorite line of his for me being “Maybe we can publish a paper together”. Doom would never in a MILLION years work hand in hand with Reed, but if Reed suddenly decided to turn heel and cooperate with him, it’s no question that Wizard would accept his help.
Reed similarly will praise the technology of The Wizard in a way that makes it clear there are some things Wizard invents that Reed couldn’t or wouldn’t.
While Doom is an opposite in every way besides intelligence, The Wizard works very well as a direct enemy for Reed in intelligence, methodology, and teamwork. It’s a very cool dynamic that I wish was used more often.

As you all know, Secret Wars (2015) heavily features Molecule Man as a vessel for Doom to create Battleworld. Molecule Man is able to steal the powers Doom needed from the Beyonders to make it. Molecule Man’s humanity is also the loophole required for Doom to be defeated.
Based on this poster, I heavily think Molecule Man’s role will be taken by Loki. We need someone powerful enough and knowledgeable enough about the timelines and cosmic powers, something Loki has become especially capable of during S2 of his show. He is a God- and not just the God of mischief.
I really believe the powers of Loki will be Doom’s main goal in the process of creating Battleworld.

R.U.R., one of my favorite science fiction plays ever, is getting a film adaptation. The original play takes place entirely within a factory, which was constructed fully for every production of the play. It works very well as a single location story- what do you think about the decision to make it all virtual shooting and why do you think it was made?

Toy Story 2 is my favorite Pixar movie, and the final sequence is phenomenal. I think the luggage room is amazing, being both 1. non-navigable for humans (at least in the way the toys can) and 2. still exceedingly elaborate in a way that facilitates great action and emotional moments. There are other great setpieces in Pixar- the car/shark chase from Hoppers, the door chase from Monsters Inc., the incinerator from Toy Story 3, I think those all are on a similar level, but the luggage room triumphs, I believe. If I had to choose an equal setpiece, it would be the door chase, which similarly makes a confusing environment perfect for the characters to navigate.
What do you think the greatest setpiece (a particular environment for a specific usually dramatic sequence) is in all of Pixar?

I’m purely asking this out of curiosity. I always saw him as a parody of the “exoticized mystic” of comic books, making him SE Asian/Tibetan in my mind. This probably also was because he was significantly darker in the earlier seasons. However, in the later seasons, he gets whiter and whiter, and he is more so inspired by Doctor Strange, who is a white character.

When you guys watch the show. do you see him as a classical british White magician like Strange or an Orientalist sorcerer like Ra’as al Ghul?