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I'm just happy to see a return to hopeful futures for Bart and Lisa after a lot of the more "grounded" future episodes where one or both of them seems to be completely miserable. In particular a return to a Lisa who isn't in a wreck of a marriage with Milhouse was refreshing. And while I miss Lawyer/Justice Bart, I'll take pot CEO who smokes it up on the white house roof over the miserable divorced dad whose kids hate him.
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Sheldon's story about the 3 knocks is already sort of a plot hole because he didn't start doing that until Season 2 of the show.
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On 5/8/2021 at 2:55 AM, susannah said:
I always wonder how he figures scoopers, or "dishers," aren't unitaskers. They can only do one thing.
They scoop lots of different things though, in the same way that a knife only cuts things, but can be used to cut almost everything you might need. A unitasker would be a scooper specially designed for dishing out cookie dough in the shape of a small flower.
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20 minutes ago, WinnieWinkle said:
Over at the Young Sheldon page there is discussion on whether the show will follow the BBT timeline in terms of the way Sheldon described his parent's marriage and his father's infidelities. Much as I want them to walk back some of this every time I watch BBT it strikes me that the Sheldon we see here is Sheldon for a reason. To tinker too much with what we've been told about Sheldon's childhood would make it a little harder to watch BBT going forward. I don't think Sheldon was lying or misinterpreting the things he said -- but I also don't want George to be the drunken womanizer we're told he is on BBT. I guess I am experiencing The Kobayashi Maru, as Sheldon would say.
They addressed some of the inconsistencies in the BBT episodes where Georgie showed up., he pretty much said that Sheldon didn't really understand everything that was going on when he was a kid and filtered through Sheldon's own biases (for example telling the BBT crew that Georgie is a "tire salesman" when Georgie actually owns a highly successful chain of stores all over the state).
One of the early YS episodes also had Mary accuse George of cheating on her because she found out that he wasn't a virgin when they got married and spent most the episode acting like it was an ongoing thing, rather than him having slept with his high school girlfriend before he ever met Mary.
I've always thought those two things were the writers saying that none of the sources we had on Sheldon's childhood on BBT were entirely grounded in reality. Mary is prone to huge prolonged bouts of jealousy and Sheldon takes things that his mom and meemaw said at face value. without considering that they might just be talking shit.
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4 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:
I thought the part about "that man is your brother" would have been better if they didn't show T'challa and Killmonger and maybe showed Steve and Bucky or Steve and Sam or or Tony and Rhody even Peter and Ned.
Also anyone know where that Stan Lee speech came from?
I'm choosing to think of it more as showing Jordan and Boseman rather than the characters, since this was pretty clearly 4th wall breaking and celebrating the films themselves and the shared community of the fans rather than the characters.
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To be fair, who knows what impact coming to the realization that she had sucked face with her time traveling great uncle had on Sharron's mental state.
"Wait, in these old pictures Uncle Grant looks an awful lot like ... but Aunt Peggy said that ... Then he kissed ... Fuck it, I'm evil now!"
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So Cole is related to Scorpion who is largely sidelined in the film, seems to be nearly invulnerable to harm once he unlocks his power, he defeats Goro easily when his wife and daughter are about to get fridged, he comes up with the plan and has to clue Raiden in on a really basic strategy for using his powers, and he teams up with Scorpion to defeat Sub Zero?
Meanwhile Johnny Cage isn't in it, Jax is sidelined for most of the movie to save Cole, and Liu Kang and Kung Lao are basically just there to train Cole (and die in the case of Lao).
Did they find some Mary Sue self insert fanfic and adapt that into the plot?
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Gambi telling Anissa how great she looks in a suit Gambi made had some real Obama awards Obama energy.
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My only thought with Sharron is that I'm not a fan of her being a villain, but I think there's at least a decent chance that things aren't what they seem with her. She's a spy, after all and there was some unseen figure she was talking with about evil plans at the end.
We also regularly saw her surrounded by art from around the world that had been stolen and replaced with forgeries, I don't think that's an insignificant piece of symbolism.
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I don't know what to make of Walker joining up with the team here.
I guess after Tony, T'Challa, Wanda, Clint and probably others all getting away with some pretty heinous crimes and still being accepted there's really very little that you can't get away with and have it ignored by the Avengers if you help them out and have the "was going through some shit" excuse. But Walker wanting revenge on the Flag Smashers needed to be a longer arc with more conflicts with Sam and Bucky trying to get through to him for this payoff to have a chance to work.
Also rather odd that the only person in the MCU the seems to have to apologize for their crimes is Bucky for things he did while brainwashed by Hydra.
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14 minutes ago, Katy M said:
A felony sounds like a gross overreach. Basically, she stole the movie. How much does it cost? $20? that's a misdemeanor.
The rental stores had to pay significantly more than retail for a copy to keep the studios happy. Like $65-$100 per tape, still absurd that they were allowed to charge more in late fees than the actual cost of restocking the VHS and into felony territory.
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I really liked the stuff with Sam and Isaiah and Bucky making his amends, and I'd gladly watch an entire series of Sam and Bucky helping out with the Wilson family business, but the entire action/intrigue side of the plot felt like a mess.
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20 hours ago, FnkyChkn34 said:
Could his own show start to make you care, though? (I don't know how else to phrase that, please don't think I'm being snippy or flippant, just an honest question.) I liked him well enough in the movies, he was just massively under-utilized, and therefore never developed and a bit boring. He could have been so much more well rounded, so maybe this show is finally that opportunity?
It's possible but it would be a significant uphill climb for me as this version of Clint is so tied into being an off the grid family man who really loves his family that lives off the grid*.
I'm also not sure that Renner has the charm required to get away with completely reinventing the character in a short time the way Hemsworth did with Thor. The thing is they have to be more careful in how they change Hawkeye because if he looks like he's forgotten about his family he's just going to look like an ass.
*One thing I've long wondered since we met his family and hope they address on the show is whether Clint's kids have actual lives and friends or have they been living on a farm in the middle of nowhere with no human contact outside of their parents, each other, and the occasional visit from Aunt Nat?
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15 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:
Olivia's place seemed fine in the previous episodes so I don't know why it suddenly became a disastrous dump. Yes, the landlord needs to fix the door and deal with the mice but Dre and Bow were acting like Junior and Olivia were living inside a volcano or something. Like take it down a notch there, you bougie drama queens. I have no idea why their solution was for Junior and Olivia to move in with them. HELL NO!
It doesn't surprise me that much, a lot of places look clean and nice but have significant hidden problems. Dre was actually right about the potential fire/death trap that was the overloaded kitchen outlets (especially combined with the stuck door), but that seems like a problem Junior and Olivia could solve by just not leaving everything plugged in when not in use.
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I'm torn because while I like Kate and Clint from the comics and think Steinfeld is a great actress who could carry a franchise, but the MCU version of Hawkeye could be the star of a show called "Characters I Don't Care About."
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23 minutes ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:
Regardless of the circumstances, what I don't think is that Bucky or Sam would have started hitting Nico or anyone else and then kept on hitting them until they were dead. It's not about 'poor Nico' or if you have sympathy for him, it's that as a representative of law and order, John shouldn't be going around clubbing people like baby seals. "The Flag Smashers were trying to kill John" as a defense for him running Nico down and bashing him to death --
I've already said that Walker should have stopped his attack on Nico once he had rendered him unconscious and no longer a threat. To be clear I believe that Walker should be in prison for what he did.
Up until that point, however, Nico was a super human murderer and terrorist who is capable of running faster than a car and can easily kill with his bare hands and has already shown himself to consider the murder of helpless people justifiable. Nico never surrendered and, thus should be considered a threat to lives of everyone around him as long as he is conscious and unrestrained. Sam and Bucky should 100% be doing everything they can to pursue and capture the super human murderers and terrorists rather than letting them escape to kill again.
The argument isn't that John is justified in killing Nico because Nico is a murderer, he isn't and wouldn't have been justified in killing Karli either if it was her that he had caught up to and it had played out the exact same way. The issue is that the show is depicting the situation as if Nico is not responsible for Lemar's death when he is, which is simply legally and morally wrong and also implying that John is the wrong because he killed an "innocent" man and is going around lying about it, when the reason that John is in the wrong is because had seemingly neutralized Nico as a threat and then killed him anyway, rather than taking him in to stand trial for the murder.
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8 hours ago, swanpride said:
I guess we have a different understanding of this matter. It does make a difference if you are the one pulling the trigger or the one standing beside the person. Also, Walker doesn't say "he was guilty because he was part of the group who did the killing", he claims that this guy killed Lemar. Exactly because he knows that most people would judge the situation differently if they knew that Lemar was killed during a fight with someone else.
There's a huge difference between standing beside someone who commits a crime you couldn't have foreseen as a probable outcome of your actions and what Nico and the Flag Smashers were doing.
If Lemar hadn't got back in time and Karli had succeeded in killing Walker, would the rest of the Flag Smashers be innocent of murder because they were just standing there when Karli killed him? Would Sam and Bucky be saying: "Well I guess that Karli is a bad egg after all, but poor Nico here should be free to go, he was just holding John's arms when Karli killed him. Is that even a crime?"
The Flag Smashers weren't walking down the street to go see a movie when Karli randomly killed Lemar, they were engaged in attempting to lure a man into a 7 on 1 fight and murder that man as a group. They were armed with knives, their intent is very clear. Karli killed the friend of their target because he jumped in to literally save the life of his friend from the Flag Smashers's attempting to murder him. If Nico isn't trying to kill Walker then Lemar doesn't die. Therefore Nico is responsible for the murder of Lemar just as much as Karli. If you commit a crime as a group, everyone in that group is responsible for the consequences.
The intent of the show is pretty clearly that John is lying or delusional since Bucky and Sam disagree with him, but that doesn't support the reality of what they showed Nico and the Flag Smashers doing. Lemar was not murdered by one person, he was murdered by all the Flag Smashers because they were acting as a group.
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On 4/17/2021 at 3:18 PM, ursula said:
Different take here... I don't think it matters that Nico wasn't the hand that pulled the trigger, in the metaphorical sense. All the Flag Smashers wanted to kill Walker, and they used Lemar as bait. That Nico wasn't the specific person that murdered Lemar is inconsequential. All the Flag Smashers are guilty of Lemar's death.
I agree, and am honestly confused that the show doesn't seem to be aware of the reality of the things they actually showed on screen last week,
Walker was clearly wrong for continuing his attack once Nico was unconscious, but that would have been just as true if Karli was the one he caught.
Nico, did kill Lemar though, just as much as Karli did. John shouldn't be portrayed as lying/wrong/delusional when he says the man who was part of a murder plot that resulted in a death is responsible for that death. The Flag Smashers weren't stealing supplies and using nonlethal restraints when Karli went rogue on them this time.
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On 4/18/2021 at 9:59 PM, Galileo908 said:
"Come see where your kid gets sick!" Yeah, that's preschool for ya.
We get it, we Millennials suck. But at least these were actual millennials. They work, they have kids, they rent overpriced apartments. Peter and Lois are
Gen Xers, Baby Boomers they're not young anymore. Chris and Meg? Yeah, technically they'd be millennials. It was nice seeing those two in a plot.Yeah, it wouldn't be Family Guy unless all those Millennials' kids ended up dead.
What are you basing their generations on? The characters have aged up some over the years but are still on a sliding timeline.
Currently in the timeline of the show Chris and Meg are still teenagers, so they're Gen Z and Peter and Lois are in their mid 40s, so they'd be Gen X.
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Goodbye, John.
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19 hours ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:
I would argue that Ayo felt personally betrayed by Bucky's decision to free Zemo from prison, which is vastly different than Rhodey not agreeing to some plan Tony cooked up. Her king was murdered, and the Dora Milaje are sworn to always protect and honor the ruler of Wakanda. The entire reason Okoye refused to go with Shuri and Ramonda when they left the palace during Black Panther is because her duty was to remain behind and back the new king, usurper though he was, and despite her grief due to thinking T'Challa was dead. Ayo's sense of honor is why she gave Barnes the time she did give him, and she was being perfectly reasonable until John decided to interfere while the adults were talking. Even if the arm was given to Bucky with no conditions attached, she was already annoyed and maybe feeling like he went behind her back. "How could you free him?!"
I agree that she is feeling annoyed with Bucky for helping Zemo escape (and rightly so IMO), but, again detaching someone's arm is just different from taking away a shield. In the case of Bucky it's also someone else once again using a secret code to take control his body away from him. I also agree that she's driven by her system of honor over the death of her king.
I don't agree that she was "perfectly reasonable". First they came on the scene throwing a spear at Walker's head and she delivered an ultimatum to hand over Zemo.
If the US secret service showed up in another country and demanded the extradition of a criminal to US custody outside of official/legal channels, claimed they had jurisdiction anywhere in the world, and glared daggers at foreign soldiers who were in the process of trying to return that criminal to prison when they tried to get them to lower their guns and talk, before starting shooting because one of them touched their shoulder while trying to get them to talk, I don't thing anyone would find them to be the reasonable party.
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I don't know what to think about what Ayo and her team were doing.
First they enter the scene by throwing a spear near Walker's head to stop him from fighting Sam because Walker wants Zemo back in prison. He does not pick up his shield and tries to talk to them, Sam starts acting like simply asking them whats going on is picking a fight. They claim to have jurisdiction where ever they are, which is some real dodgy shit to have anyone claiming who isn't meant to be a villain. Walker again tries to talk and touches Ayo's shoulder in what is clearly meant to be a friendly manner. Yes it's something he should not have done, but was not enough to merit a response with lethal weapons, which is what they did. They stab at Walker center mass while he is on the ground and he blocks it with the shield. They pull back to make one more stabs at each of Walker and Hoskins who are both down on the ground which Bucky and Sam stop, leading to them attacking Bucky and Sam.
If they weren't going for kills then I honestly don't know what they were doing, stabbing at unarmed men who were on the ground with the business end of a spear is a kill shot, not a disabling one. Honestly I don't see how it's any different from what Walker did at the end of the episode except that Walker was attacking a superhuman who had literally been trying to murder him minutes earlier, and someone stepped in and stopped them from striking a killing blow.
Watching how they attack it's hard to see the scene as anything other than them trying to kill Walker and Hoskins until Bucky and Sam got involved, at which point they switched to nonlethal methods because they likely didn't want to kill either of them.
Further they came into the scene and attacked the two men who actually AGREE with them that Zemo needs to be locked up and are also angry at Bucky for breaking him out. While they were engaging in this fight they started with two men who were no threat to them and agreed with them on the basic premise that Zemo is a bad guy and should not be free, Zemo escaped.
The only way they don't come out of this looking both, quite frankly, insane AND incompetent is if they whole thing was a bluff on their part to get Zemo to run because they had mapped out his escape route and had people waiting to capture him, which is the only reason I can come up with for how they came in seemingly looking for even the smallest excuse to attack and then kept escalating their attacks until Sam and Bucky stepped in, which gave Zemo the chance to run.
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Zemo's claim was actually about people who seek to be be superhuman, which technically doesn't include Bucky because he is the one super solider who did not willingly take the serum.
As to his agreeing that Steve was not corrupted, I'm choosing to think that the guy who engineered an entire plot centered around Steve having not done the right thing with regard to telling Tony about the deaths of his parents is agreeing about Steve as a way to get Bucky to let his guard down and view him as an ally.
I think the whole exchange was Zemo manipulating Bucky. "People who seek to be superhuman are bad, but that doesn't include you because we both know you had it forced on you and, oh yeah, your buddy Steve was the one exception though, good dude, Captain America, I don't even remember what we were fighting about."
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3 hours ago, xaxat said:
Bucky's arm was given to him freely by the King of Wakanda, no conditions were attached to him having the arm in the scene we saw (and, in fact, they had to somewhat coerce him into taking the arm at all). It's his ARM and part of his bodily autonomy the second they attached it to him.
Taking away a disabled person's gifted prosthetic limb is very different from taking away a shield or an iron man suit or the like. It would be like Tony turning off the device that allows Rhodes to walk if he was refusing to go along with some plan Tony had.
As to the shield, given that this is apparently from an entirely different timeline, has markings that indicated it's not the original, and we don't even know what it's made of, no one on the MCU Earth other than Steve, Sam, and then the US Government/Smithsonian has any sort of claim on it or right to it.
Even if it was the original, Klaue's backstory suggests that no one else has ever stolen Vibranium and made it out alive, so even assuming that it was "stolen" is quite a stretch.
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Good Eats: The Return - General Discussion
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Well it was an example I just made up, but apparently shaped dishers do exist :https://www.dvorsons.com/Volrath/Shapped.html