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1 hour ago, swanpride said:
I think it was more because she killed someone "innocent". Lemar was after all only kidnapped to get to Walker. She rationalised the killing of the people in that one organisation with them keeping important medicines and similar from people who need it, and she had a vendetta against Walker for what he symbolises with the shield, but Lemar hadn't actually done something which would have put him on the "bad person - worthy of killing" list yet.
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.
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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.
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5 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
"Your like if Drake never left Degrassi." I don't know, even Degrassi Drake is a whole lot cooler than Junior.
Junior isn't messaging 14 year old girls, so I'll take him over Drake.
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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.
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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.
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On 3/22/2021 at 11:54 AM, Phishbulb said:
Yes, in order to keep the characters the same age (Lisa 8, Bart 10, Homer...in his mid-thirties, I think?) they have to keep retrofitting how long ago events occurred. So "six years ago" I guess meant six years ago from now, which would place this episode in 2014 (assuming they wrote this in 2020), in which Uber, Ipads, etc. were all in existence.
I'm more shocked by the fact that the episode where Maude Flanders died happened in "our time" OVER TWENTY YEARS AGO. If the show was following real-time continuity, Rod and Tod would be in their late twenties or early thirties by now.
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.
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After Rose exited the show, Dries toyed with the idea of recasting her right away but ultimately changed her mind and decided to introduce a new character — Ryan — instead because she thought “it would have been a clunky transition between Season 1 and Season 2 if we had just full-blown recast Kate with no organic story behind it,” she says
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?
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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.
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19 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:
But he’s not using it to make popcorn!
His no unitasker rule often conflicts with his desire to MacGyver up a kitchen hack or alternate use for a device.
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8 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:
So Alton Brown, who always rails against unitaskers, is now in favor of using a popcorn popper to toast sesame seeds? What kind of topsy turvy world is this?
Well I guess if you're toasting sesame seeds in it, it's not a unitasker anymore.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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13 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
That was episode 5.
And while I don't agree at all with this point of view, Wanda at that point could still have been ignorant of what torture she was inflicting on the Westview citizens.
If we take what she was saying in this episode at face value, she thought that the people of Westview were at peace while she was puppetering them. It didn't sink in when Vision told her that she was torturing people way back in episode 4. It didn't matter that Fietro speculated about how she kept the children offline unless they were specifically needed for a plot as an act of mercy to stop them from being tortured. Neither of those things sank in.
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."
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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.
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13 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
Butters seems and odd choice for that. I would have bet on Randy or Cartman getting into all the q business.
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.
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On 2/23/2021 at 10:01 PM, Jediknight said:
As for Captain Luthor, I'm guessing he's a Crisis remnant. Lex from an Earth that was destroyed.
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.
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8 hours ago, Trini said:
I had heard about that, but wanted to rewatch the special to see for myself. Seems really unnecessary; especially for a 5-second shot. Even if Ruby's not coming back, Batwoman was there for the crossover, so why erase that? Now I'm just wondering if this is pure pettiness or a contract/money issue.
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.
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10 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
And now I’m rewatching Iron Man.
Just who was the idiot who had the Iraqis speaking in Hindi???? They speak Arabic and Kurdish. The closed captioning can’t make up their minds as to how to identify what Farhan Tahir’s character is speaking: they go from Urdu to Arabic to Urdu. But it’s Hindi he’s speaking: an Indian language. Urdu is a...formalized version of Hindi-they both sound similar but there are minute differences. It’s laziness. No excuse for ignorance in 2008.
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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.
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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.
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2 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:
TV can tend to over write. Not everything needs a huge backstory. You could easily have Tory working a lot to take care of her mother and brother. Being a little more life worn, you could see her being really over a lot of the teen bs, causing conflict.
I think that's fair, but the show kind of cheated on that. It's a hard buy-in that one karate match led to all this. Now, the 'peaked in high school', while tropey, isn't untrue irl. I think they could have done a little more there. I can certainly buy becoming a sensei pulls him out of that.
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.
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I'm assuming that it's some sort of multiverse reference, the same movie with a bunch of different titles.
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6 hours ago, Chyromaniac said:I liked that the “broadcast” is now offline, given that this sitcom format basically exists after the end of analog TV. SWORD needed to hook up a digital adapter if they wanted to catch this episode...
Not much else to say, other than this show is fantastic, and I can’t wait for next week.
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
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9 hours ago, Dani said:
The producers have said that Steve would have had to return to the MCU timeline off screen before he ended up on that bench. The writers have said the opposite but their version creates many issues and seems less likely to be the official explanation.
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.
S01.E04: The Whole World Is Watching
in The Falcon And The Winter Soldier
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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.