Perfect Xero

She may not have planned on killing him directly, but I don't think she cared about Lemar being innocent one way or the other, she knocked him off a moving truck in an earlier episode and likely would have killed or seriously injured him then if not for Walker saving him with the shield, he was a hostage to lure Walker in and it made sense to keep him alive for potential leverage. Her and her crew's reaction was like when a group of kids are playing rough and one of them gets hurt and everyone freezes for a second then run away so they don't get in trouble when an adult gets there. They're not doing that because they feel bad that someone got hurt, they're doing it because they're worried about facing the consequences. They've never been in any real danger to that point when fighting Walker/Lemar and Sam/Bucky because they're super soliders AND the people they're fighting are trying to do the hero thing capture them rather than kill them, once they killed Lemar that changed and they instantly knew it.

I thought that Karli's reaction to killing Lemar was less being upset over killing someone (during her plot to, you know, murder a man with knife wielding super soldiers), and more a realization that shit had just got real and Walker was about to stop trying to arrest them and start trying to kill them.

Junior isn't messaging 14 year old girls, so I'll take him over Drake.

The Steve and Peggy ending would have worked better for me if Peggy had been an actual character in the film rather than just someone Steve is looking at a picture of and watching through a window, have her get pulled into the future with Steve and Tony somehow and join the rest of the plot of the film.

Hopefully Netflix will bring in someone else to direct Knives Out 2 so they can subvert expectations by blatantly ignoring the character development from the first film, have Marta fall in love with Ransom, and reveal Benoit to have tried to murder Ransom as a child and then have him drop dead for no reason. I'm given to understand that this is the proper way to write the second film in a trilogy, anything less is boring and too similar to a video game.

Homer is most often referenced as 38 years old, but his age has been inconsistent over the years ranging from as low as 34 in early seasons to 40 in season 18.

I continue to not understand the thought process here. This is a tv universe where they regular have different actors play versions of the same character and the same actors playing different characters with barely any remark upon it. Is plastic surgery any better way to explain the different face and voice than having Brainy or Cisco show up via video chat and call it residual energy from the multiverse collapse or something?

It made some sense that Sheldon would get along with Penny because she's pretty similar to his sister. Speaking of Penny and siblings, watching back through the series on Max and the casting of Jack McBrayer as her ex-convict brother Randall has to be the oddest match of backstory to actor in the entire series.

His no unitasker rule often conflicts with his desire to MacGyver up a kitchen hack or alternate use for a device.

Well I guess if you're toasting sesame seeds in it, it's not a unitasker anymore.

So if the reason Wanda survived the Mind Stone was that she was already a low level Witch, what does that mean about Pietro? Did he get super speed just because of his proximity to Wanda, or did he also have latent powers that the Stone activated?

One thing about Fietro/Ralph is that people seem to be assuming that he's really an actor named "Ralph Bohner" because that's what the head shots we saw in his house said, but he and his home were inside the Hex the entire time, so presumably had been overwritten into the sitcom reality like everyone else in Westview before Agatha got hold of him and turned him into Fietro. An actor neighbor with a last name that sounds like "Boner" (likely a reference to Mike's wacky friend on Growing Pains) seems more like something conjured up by Wanda's sitcom loving brain than the true identity of the guy who got stuck as Fietro.

I just hope the MCU X-films remember that while the Civil Rights issues are an important part of the X-Men, they're also superheroes who do things like date alien bird people and fight purple Superman.

Maybe this can be a plot for the She-Hulk series: "Okay, Ms. Maximoff, the prosecution says that you enslaved an entire town full of people and tortured them for about a week. This is going to be a tough case, but we're the firm that got Tony Stark a month of community service for the whole Ultron thing and Hawkeye house arrest for an international murder spree, so I'm sure we can point to-" "I was completely ignorant of what was happening, I had no idea until the very end." "The prosecution has the testimony of a Mr. Ralph Bohner, Mr. John Collins, several SWORD agents, and a mysterious white sythenzoid that indicate that you were in fact told several times that you were torturing these people?" "Yes, but I have a great explanation for that!" "Great, let's hear it ..." "I chose not to believe them!" *Narrator voice* "It was at this moment that Jen realized that her client might be in trouble."

Tommy taking the hat and glasses from the soldiers was a clear reference to Peter/Quicksilver's Time in a Bottle sequence in Days of Futures Past ... which as someone who was holding out hope that Peters was playing his X-Men character, really just seems like salt in the wounds from the show.

Butters makes a lot of sense IMO, he usually buys all in on whatever nonsense Cartman tells him, started hating girls because he had like one bad experience with a long distance girlfriend, and regularly takes on the role of a supervillain out to get revenge on society because he feels like an outcast. Cartman would fit on his asshole belief system, but he usually has too much of an ego to be a follower, he likes to be the one in control of the mob. If he can't be in control of a group that fits his ideology he'll be the one taking charge of group fighting against them. Randy is usually on the left on political stuff, even if he's often a hypocrite, he'd be more likely to be in some sort of Antifa type of group.

I hope that he's the Lex Luthor from THIS Earth, the one that was replaced by John Cryer Lex after the Crisis. All the things they've said about this world's Lex before the Crisis overwrote him has made him sound much more clever and subtle than Cryer's Lex as he actually had everyone, including the supers, convinced that he was a good guy.

I believe the rule is that if they reuse old footage of an actor they have to pay them for it. So I guess there's a cost saving issue there, but probably more that they didn't want to cut Rose a check than it being make or break for their budget.

I don't know about the subtitles being accurate or not, but the Ten Rings are stated in the film to be a multinational organization who speak a bunch of different languages. Also the middle east action in the film was set in Afghanistan, with the possible exception of the cave which never had an exact location established. According to Tahir in this interview they were speaking Urdu as well as Hindi, Arabic, and Hugarian to avoid implicating any one group of people as the terrorists.

All the media conglomerates are trying to entice people to their streaming service by offering exclusives, Good Eats has always had a loyal if a bit niche audience because the show plays up the science and nerdier aspects of cooking compared to big personalities like Emeril or Guy or the spectacle of something like Iron Chef, so it's not really surprising that they'd tap GE as a potential draw. In a landscape where the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises are being used as streamer exclusives, being on Discovery Plus isn't a demotion or lack of faith for Good Eats.

It wasn't the Karate match itself as much as it was the years of abuse from Kreese and his stepfather that led to this. The Karate match triggered the spiral for Johnny because being the best at Karate and being a bullying jerk were the things he used to to cope and prop up his self esteem, once he stopped doing those things he didn't have an outlet left.

I'm assuming that it's some sort of multiverse reference, the same movie with a bunch of different titles.

For comparison I think it's quite funny if SWORD has been foiled simply by not realizing they need a digital antenna and television to keep watching

I like that version much better for Steve's character, but it seems like a quick word of god retcon IMO. The entire return the stones to "prune" the new branch before it forms resolution sort of hinges on the idea that a new timeline only forms when you remove a stone or make some other big change and Steve being shown waiting on the bench rather than just having him pop back in on the time machine as an old man strongly implies that the writer's version is the intent of the film.

I haven't gone back and watched Endgame in a while, but from what I recall the writers version is that Banner sets up is that major changes create new timelines, not just the act of time travel itself. So if they kill Baby Thanos or remove an infinity stone it creates a new timeline, but if they just stroll down the street or whatever, they don't. Time Travel itself creating a new timeline would make more sense for the main narrative of the film. But they tried to have it both ways so Steve could get his "happy ending" where he goes back in time and ends up on that bench as an old man. I don't have any issue with Steve ending up with Peggy (I'm all for it in theory), but the idea that Steve looked the other way while horrible things were happening around him and that he either chose to not warn Peggy about those things or that he did and she also looked the other way will never sit right with me as the ending for either Steve or Peggy.