Kel Varnsen

Watched the first episode last night. It was really funny but probably didn't need to be as long as it was. There was probably 2-3 storylines worth of plot and a bunch of extra random Seth MacFarlane type stuff thrown in. If they had cut it down to 30 minutes it would have been really funny.

When we last saw them together sure, but that was 3 years ago when Kate was probably around 22 or 23. By the time any kind of Young Avengers movie or show actually comes out she will probably be almost 30 (which was my original complaint it takes them so long to follow up on things now). If she still has the same personality and still feels like a kid at that point it will be weird considering how much people generally change in those years. Plus it will absolutely make me think of Wooderson from Dazed and Confused since if she is 30 why is she hanging around with teenagers?

Watched it last night and was happy they fixed something that always bugged me about the original movie. When all the girls are fighting about the burn book, and the principal pulls the fire alarm, in the original it sets off all the sprinklers. But sprinklers don't work like that; pulling a fire alarm doesn't set them off and they aren't designed for them all to go off at the same time. So I was happy here when Tim Meadows pulls the alarm and it didn't happen.

Took my daughter to it and it was a ton of fun. Only thing I didn't like was how bringing back Podcast (and to a lesser extent Lucky) seemed really forced. And the movie would have worked just as well without Podcast since there were already a ton of characters. I noticed that and wondered if I was just imagining things or if they were going with. Because it definitely seemed like Phoebe sneaking out because she was secretly dating someone. Both actresses seemed to play it that way and did really well. And even some of the camera shots were how you would shoot a couple. Which also kind of worked since when Melody betrayed Phoebe it definitely hit harder.

If you don't count the years in the ice, Steve Rogers was only like 28 in Avengers (same age as Natasha). So if the hook is that this new team is Avengers, but they are young it seems like it's already been done.

That's one of the reasons why the idea of a Young Avengers team doesn't really work for me in the MCU. Kate is probably around 25 now. By the time a movie actually happens she will probably be close to 30 so hardly what I would call a "young" avenger. And since you don't have that sliding timeline like the comics do, since actors age,and movies take a long time to come out you only really get one shot to make a movie about young heroes since by the time you make the sequel they are just more heroes.

Oh yea I didn't even think about that. I was more thinking of people who do dumb stuff around a pool or on a pool deck after a few daiquiris. So lots of broken bones and near drownings. And now that I think about it with the number of older people on a cruise ship I imagine heart attacks/strokes aren't uncommon either. So sure they don't deal with too many shootings but I bet a cruise ship doctor deals with a lot of ER style emergencies on a regular basis.

That's a big one for me. Like I feel like it will still be years before we even find out what the 10 rings are made of.

When she kept telling the captain over and over again that she could do it, she could turn on the bilge pump I had a hard time not laughing. The rotating set was pretty impressive. I would definitely watch a behind the scenes thing to see how they did that. Also with the number of people on a cruise ship, the number of swimming pools and other activities and the amount of alcohol served I really doubt that the ship's doctor mostly just handles sea sickness.

I really wish that the LAFD chief guy had told Hen that the guy wasn't drunk but multiple witnesses confirmed that he refused care. And based on the fact that there were other victims trapped in the car that hadn't yet been assessed, she obviously had to prioritize and made the right call. As for the whole cruise thing it was just weird. Like wouldn't they have to have some other form of communication with land, like satellite phones or something? Otherwise if the ship sinks and they are on the lifeboats how do they communicate with the world? Also my wife and I did a cruise about 15 years ago and at one of the ports they had to use the lifeboats to shuttle people to land. And those things are big, and fully enclosed. Not some little rowboat like you saw in this episode. And lastly was the guy who was shot really named Norm Peterson? Was he from Boston, and is his best friend a mail man?

Watched this over the last few days after it had been on my Netflix list for years. It was interesting, horrifying but interesting. I liked how much actual footage they were able to get. And they did a good job of explaining how people could go along with it. For the men, it was like a terrible version of Wooderson from Dazed and Confused. As long as you support the FLDS you get older and your wives stay the same the same age. And then for the younger women they did a good job showing how they knew nothing else. They mentioned they would have no money and no financial independence. And one of the women ex-members said they wouldn't even understand the concept of a women's shelter. I would have liked to see more about how they got that first generation of women to go along with it though. I was also really curious how they raised so much cash to buy the land in Texas, build the compound, and pay for Warren to be a fugitive and then his legal fees. I think they said there was only like 3500 members at the time and it is hard to see them being able to generate a ton of cash, especially the women and children and especially after they kick out a bunch of the high ranking men. So where did all the money come from. And like others said I would have liked to see some more aftermath. Like if the church still exists how often does Children's services drop by? But also the landscape and rock formations around their original compound looked really nice.

To me it just wasn't clear why Scott couldn't just leave the quantum realm at any time by turning the controls on his belt. He did that without any problems in the first movie.

Rumours are those cancelled projects are Eternals 2, Ant-Man 4 and a sequel to The Marvels. Not that those would be any surprise to anyone, Eternals was probably the biggest Marvel misfire for me at least. Just hope that the projects they are keeping instead will be interesting.

Thinking about the episode more I really liked how it was a whole "the cover up is worse than the crime" think. Like if leaked the whole thing about British intelligence developing a device that could hack secure networks but also put someone in a coma probably wouldn't be that big a news story. Now if the person who tried to leak it died mysteriously that would probably be bigger, there might be some kind of outside agency investigation and the head of MI-5 might resign. But with what we saw in this episode with MI-5 killing people on UK soil as part of a cover-up, that's leading to probably a pretty high investigation, several people resigning (maybe even the prime minister) with some probably going to prison and possibly a non-confidence vote in parliament and an election being called (depending on the political situation at the time). It seems like Tearney would have been better off letting the story leak but then orchestrating a bigger political story being leaked around the same time so people don't care so much about Project Footprints.

I didn't mind the gunplay but they could have definitely made it a bit longer and added some more fallout. At the very least have one final scene with the asshole home secretary before he loses his job. Not to mention it seems like a scandal this big could also bring down the government. I mean it's a streaming show, so it's not like they are bound by a certain episode runtime. I mentioned last episode that I liked that the guys the Slow Horses took out (other than Duffy and the guy Lamb killed) were private security types. So they made some dumb mistakes that got them killed, like the guys that got taken out by Donovan before he was killed, or the first guy Shirley hit with the car or the second guy who after not getting hit by the car head on decided to stand behind it. One thing I did thing was funny though was after everything was over no one thought it was a bad idea for River to drive away, by himself with the secret documents when he almost certainly had a concussion.

That was my sort of read on him. It was just a clerical/admin type job not much different from any other government job other that the fact that you might get paid a bit extra on account of needing a security clearance to get the job. One thing I really liked was how River and Louisa were able to hold off Chieftain for longer than you might expect, since it goes with what Duffy said about how these private security guys just aren't as good as real agents. Although one thing that did make me laugh was when Allison's brother said he could use a gun because he was in the TA. That is the Territorial Army and the only reason I know that was because Gareth (UK version of Dwight) from the UK version of the office was in the TA. So that is what I think of when I think of them, and then of course the brother gets shot almost instantly.

I always like the fact that River is really excellent at parts of his job, but really terrible at other parts of it.

I had the day off yesterday so I watched this and was surprised by how good it was. I was impressed by how much material for that many characters they crammed into a 2 hour movie. I was also surprised by how they didn't try to force some bullshit happy/triumphant ending after all the tragedy. And Zac Efron was also really good. I honestly didn't know he could pull off that kind of dramatic work. Was also impressed that he actually looked like a believable wrestler. He was huge and jacked and on top of that he was like a completely different body type than how ha looked when he was huge in Baywatch. That must have taken a ton of work.

That can work, but sometimes you get How I Met Your Mother where the ending at least is planned from very early on and the writers sticking to it kind of ruined the show. And the reverse is Breaking Bad where at the start of the final season they did a flash forward without really knowing what it was going to mean. That started to change with the release of Psycho in 1960. Hitchcock wanted the movie twists to really hit. So a bunch of the marketing was Hitchcock telling theatre owners/managers to not let people in during the middle of the movie. Because people would do exactly what you said.

I think there is something to be said for making fewer movies. Just looking at the post Infinity Saga movies, imagine how much better a position they would be in if they just hadn't made Eternals and either Wakanda Forever or Quantumania. Not only would there be fewer movies for people to complain/get tired over, but on the production side the remaining movies would have gotten more producer attention and CGI artists could have more time and workers available to make better special effects.

Sure but the Venom movies didn't have very good scripts but they still made a ton of money. It still seems like picking less popular characters isn't helping things.

I wonder if part of the problem is that they are holding the really good characters in reserve for use in the MCU Spider man movies. Like a Green Goblin origin movie could be interesting or a Joker style movie about the scorpion. But maybe they are saving the Goblin for Spidey 4. And Scorpion has kind of been introduced in Homecoming.

Maybe if this were the 1980's that might be a problem, but I think these days most wrestling fans know that when he is "The Rock" he is playing a character no different from his character in any movie. Now his connection and support of Vince McMahon might be a problem.

The only read the first storyline I think and all I remember (other than black Fury) was Hank Pym's super abusive relationship with Janet and Pietro and Wanda having a potentially incestuous thing going on. Wasn't Cap also basically a white nationalist? Any of those things if done in movies would make people lose their minds. I feel like someone could probably tell an interesting story about a Bruce Wayne whose family were self made immigrants. Or a Batman story set in Tokyo with a Japanese batman. Like I said they are all just made up stories and in the end the main goal should just be to tell an interesting story not to match up with something that was told previously in another medium.

Did you think that the Ultimates line was disrespectful to the original stories? Because it made a lot of fundamental changes to classic characters that were way bigger than making Fury black. And possibly way bigger than any changes the MCU has made.