We did a post soliciting your questions.

There's a lot of them.

We did not get through them all last week.

Last time we tried a mailbag episode, I think we were maybe less popular, and we didn't

realize how big a job this would be.

We promised a two-part episode, so I don't know.

It's going to be like the human condition or something by the time we're finished.

What movies do you think will one day

be seen as capturing the political and social mood of the late 2010's early 2020s? Not thinking of

explicitly political movies here, but more the subconscious relationship, a movie like

Death Wish has to the 1970s or torture horror movies have to the Bush era. Yeah, it is a good

question. And I mean, the short answer is I'm not

certain. Sometimes those things reveal themselves later, but you can't deny the popularity of the

Marvel movies during that period of time is undeniable, the dominance that they had. And what does

that say about those times? I mean, you could do some real like dime store analysis of, oh, society was looking for

heroes. And so these costume superheroes came along. Yeah, when you think about it, they're like

our modern mythology. It's like, Joss Whedon is a modern homer, folks. Those movies also very

consciously prod the zeitgeist, you know, with all the political stuff in them. They're always

about like extrajudicial law enforcement and that sort of thing. And they're always the bad people

who run those extrajudicial law enforcement things. And then the good people, like Nick Fury and

Ironman and the gang, who can be trusted with it. The voice. So they very consciously prod it.

And clearly there's something in that that really speaks to people.

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