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How did she know Nick had killed him, though? Wasn't he still inside impaled on the antlers at the time?

The problem is there's a 3rd set of people which is probably the majority of people. People who watched The Phantom Menace but don't read/watch the extended universe stuff. So a huge chunk of the audience is like "Wait, isn't he dead?" or "Wait, is this set before TPM?" & either way are just confused.

Jeff: "Kellyn takes a BIG fall!" Yes. Yes, she did. Finally.

Just speculating, but I'm guessing Gamora stays "dead" in the next Avengers movie but is trapped in the Soul Stone & GotG 3 revolves around the rest of the crew reviving her with the help of Adam Warlock, which would sort of mirror the comics. I also expect Vision to be revived, but as a solid white, emotionless android with all traces of humanity gone, which will of course cause interesting angst for Wanda. I fully expect all the people who got dusted to come back, but also for there to be one or two permanent deaths after that happens (as permanent as it can be in a comic book universe).

Just because Simmons thinks they can't die doesn't mean they can't be tortured, or have limbs cut off, or get pummeled in the face over & over.

This isn't a dating app, though. This is war. People are dying. If at your worst you get 90% of our allies killed, I don't care about your best. I don't want you at all.

I always thought Bucky's appeal was that he was practically the poster child for The Woobie.

So, quick recap: As a single mom, Stephanie got voted out.

That was all just a misdirect, designed to make us think he was shady. He was just getting her friends list in order to orchestrate the "shocking" proposal where Trish thought she had an interview & Jessica thought she was in trouble so rushed to show up. It was soap opera-level manufactured drama.

I'm not sure the season actually "intended to empower women". I think, like most Marvel shows/movies, it just tried to tell a good story that empowers everyone with people of [insert gender here] who were [insert race here] being role models to [insert demographic here]]" that all people would think were awesome. It's weird. I don't think I've ever been face-to-face with one of them Russian bots who's only task s to divide us. Is that what's happening here?!? How can I tell a human from a 'bot?!? Am I being Terminator'ed right now? "I'm so scared!" [/Jessie Spano from Saved By The Bell impression].

That may be true, but let me reassure you that I'm not giving Jessica a pass, & I love Jessica as a character. I like the fact that she's kind of an asshole to everyone. It's one of her most endearing traits! But she was really horrible to Malcolm this whole season. Not that I'm giving him a pass either - he did a lot of stuff behind her back. Neither one came out looking good. I also agree with you on Trish. I don't think that we were meant to really sympathize with Trish, though. People can side with who they like of course, but I don't think the writers meant for us to see Trish as anything other than a selfish bitch. With that said, & re-iterating that I like Jessica Jones the character, I really didn't think this season was very good. Better than Iron Fist, sure, but that's a low bar to cross. It started really slow, with no real "hook", picked up in the middle when the standard "evil corporation/mad scientist" turned out to be not the threat to Jessica but rather Jessica's mom/stepdad, but then just kind of... petered out into nothing. It seemed to keep building up into "maybe something interesting is right around the corner!" but then... no. There wasn't. No, it turned out it was just about Jessica feeling conflicted over her mom & Trish teleporting across the state to headshot the bad guy & so relieve Jess of making an actual choice that would shake up the setting.. There was no real antagonist. If I didn't know this show was named for Jessica Jones, I'd wonder who the protagonist was. It was chock full of cliches - the hot, ant-Jess super who's a bad boy artist with a heart of gold, Trish's inhaler running out right when you knew it would, the mad scientist seeing the error of his ways & destroying his work, ending at Chekov's ferris wheel, knocking people out, hallucinating & literally talking to past villains, guns that can't hit the broad side of a barn until a killshot is needed for the plot, etc. I really wanted this to be better.

So basically a typical JJ Abrams production, then?

For me that's just a bridge too far. Physically projecting oneself across the galaxy & Force ghosts interacting physically with the world is too much for my suspension of disbelief. Everyone's going to have different breaking points of course, but to me it's kind of like in Superman II when Superman pulls the S off his chest & flings it at Non & it expands into a giant cellophane "S" & mildly slows Non down for a bit. Some people might see that & just think "well, he's Superman, he can fly, shoot eye lasers, x-ray vision, etc., so why not an expanding cellophane "S" he's apparently had on his costume this whole time?", but that, like Luke's weird astral/physical projection powers in TLJ, is where I'm just like "Nope. Too much. I'm out."

I thought she asked him if he remembered anything from before their first date, over a year ago. So they remembered all their other dates with each other, what they did in their other relationships, what happened in between relationships. They even discussed the whole set up philosophically. They believed they were real people, just like the Callister crew did. They were just code, but they thought they had real lives & made real choices (within the parameters set up by Coach, of course - they just couldn't choose the subject or duration of each relationship). They thought they were sentient beings. They exercised, swam, skipped rocks, had sex, attended parties, had conversations, ate dinner, chose what to tell other people about themselves, chose to escape. They had independent lives & made choices while their programmer wasn't present, just like the Callister crew. So I still don't see how one set of code-people are considered "real" while this other set is considered "not real" just because they didn't know they were code-people (I personally still see them all as "not real"). If Daly had programmed the Callister crew to believe they had real world counterparts they were cloned from but they really didn't, would that make any difference in how people view them?

This was my problem with the story as well. They showed how difficult it could be to get an adult human to focus & remember an exact time & place they were being told to focus on. And they still made errors. How do you even get a guinea pig to recall what happened "5 hours ago" or "last Tuesday at 3:30" or even "3 minutes ago"? Plus there's no distinct beer smell or song to help trigger the memory. I also question how they would get a baby to recall a specific time & place. Putting the ability to call up the memory aside, the show wants me to believe a guinea pig saw a human clearly enough to identify? From 5-6 feet away? In a dimly lit room? From the side? Beyond a reasonable doubt? Isn't one human eyewitness not even enough to convict someone if that's all you've got? I was enjoying the story up until the Guinea Pig Gotcha moment, but then I was just like "oh come, on! that's just stupid."

I kinda disagree. The "copies" weren't that much different from the "copies" in USS Callister, to me. If Daly in USS Callister hadn't kept their memories of the outside world, is it really any different? If this couple in Hang the DJ did remember their past lives, is it really any different? They're still code-people who think they're real. But they're not, in either case. They're just lines of code programmed to act in a certain way. Basically I struggled in USS Callister to see Daly as the bad guy, because I just can't bring myself to see code-people as real, no matter how much they're programmed to think they're real. They're programmed to think and act like that, but the programmer could change that if he/they wanted to. Just like in a video game. In Skyrim or Mass Effect or Dragon Age (or, heck, Call of Duty), the NPC's & antagonists are programmed to act like they're real. No computer character is going to ever be like "I know I'm in a computer program, so I don't care what happens to me." They all act like they're real, they have goals, lives, different backstories, families, beliefs. And the better job they do at pretending they're real, the better the game is. Or the better the dating sim is. I find myself with the same reaction to Hang the DJ as I did to USS Callister. They're just code-people. They aren't real. Their code makes them behave a certain way. Even if it's based on a real person's profile, they aren't real people. Daly could have changed any aspect of the crew's personality if he wanted to (like he changed their physical aspects). The "Coach" could have changed any aspect of Frank & Amy's virtual programs if they wanted to (although it would defeat the purpose). Jon Hamm could have changed any aspect of the guy he wanted a confession from (although it would defeat the purpose). The code-people aren't real. In either episode.

That was just a terrible season. Bottom 5 easily, IMO. Too many idols & that final "twist" basically nullifies the spirit of the game. Winning final immunity should be a huge advantage. In this case, it basically screwed Chrissy out of even having a chance to win.

That wasn't the reason, though. She made a Final Three pact with Ryan & Devon. If they vote out Ben, maybe Devon goes back to Ashley & Mike becomes a swing vote between two sets of allies. By taking out Devon's closest ally, it cements her Final Three alliance with Ben & Mike being the ones on the outs with virtually no power since they can't both win immunity.

It was like Supergirl knew she was on a TV show with all the posing she was doing.

I feel the same. I was initially skeptical about this show but am really warming up to it. The characters aren't automatically great at their job (they fail a lot of the time), but they seem to learn each episode & it really feels like they're trying to do good, just don't know how to. The "realism", ignoring how improbable the premise is, is what I like about this show. And the humor, of course.

Yes, what I appreciate about all the objections regarding LEERING at Wonder Woman is that the same people have also posted their disapproval of the Jason Momoa gratuitous shirtless scenes, the gratuitous Chris Hemsworth shirtless scenes in the Thor movies (& Age of Ultron) which served no plot purpose. The same people who object to Amazon costumes also posted their objections to the practicality of the 300 wardrobe. They consistently condemn the objectification in the Captain America movies where they show shots of his butt & focus on his biceps. It's the consistency I appreciate! Honestly though, I have no concerns about showing hot men/women looking hot in super hero movies, & even objectifying camera angles lingering on abs/butts/boobs/biceps. It's the clutching at pearls "OMG this is objectifying!" attitude I disagree with (& find hypocritical). Males AND females get fan service shots in these movies. I'm for both! JL shows Aquaman (Jason Momoa) posing hot & shirtless. JL also show a butt shot of Wonder Woman. It's all good. Except the movie of course, which is terrible.

According to Probst, they did *not* comment on it. He wishes they did. It would've made for great TV drama, so I believe it, 'cause I also think it would've made for great drama. http://ew.com/tv/2017/11/16/survivor-jeff-probst-heroes-healers-hustlers-episode-8/

I've been waning on The Flash for a while, especially after last season, which I thought was just terrible overall, but this was it for me. About 3/4 through the episode I deleted it from my DVR. I mean I watched the whole episode, but I was like "this is godawful. I'm out." The OMG Girl Power! The terrible dialogue. The letting the villain go. The Killer Frost inconsistencies. The Felicity terribleness (I still watch Arrow, Felicity fan here). Not to mention introducing a baby, which is the harbinger of death for most shows. This had been building for a while but it's time, for me, It's time. *sigh* This episode was the tipping point. I'm done. RIP Flash on my DVR.

Didn't she say pretty much the exact same thing about Zeke, though?

Carried over from the "Vote Early, Vote Often" thread because it was off-topic. Sandra was not in any way a manipulator in Heroes vs. Villains. I went back & skimmed through the ew.com recaps of that season. She only won because she failed to pull off any of her post-merge plans... Ep 10 "Recognizing an opportunity to get in good with the Heroes, Sandra approached the tie-dyed one, and told him that Russell and Parvati were running the show." … "But why throw an idol away to save Sandra, someone who is so on the outs of her own tribe she’s likely to swap to the Heroes side next week?" http://ew.com/recap/survivor-recap-season20-episode10/3/ Ep 11 "If [Russell] doesn’t do that, then Candice and Sandra stick with the other Heroes, Parvati goes home, and there is a whole new pecking order, with Russell on the bottom." http://ew.com/recap/survivor-recap-season20-episode11/2/ Ep 12 No mention of Sandra Ep 13 "Parvati’s victory seemed to seal Rupert’s fate, but we still got some fireworks back at camp when Sandra told Rupert to get rid of Russell. Rupert then went straight over and told the toothless wonder, leading Russell to confront Sandra by asking ”Are you with me or are you against me?” Sandra’s response: ”I’m against you, Russell.” " http://ew.com/recap/survivor-recap-season20-episode13/3/ Ep 14 Russell won immunity & he & Parvati chose to take Sandra with them. Post-merge she constantly tried to vote off Russell (& Parvati) but she failed every time. And then she won because they chose to bring her to the Final Three, where the Jury hated Russell & Parvati so much they gave her the win. Nothing she wanted to do worked & she won because of it. I don't hate Sandra at all - she's entertaining & makes for good drama, which is what I mostly care about. I just dispute that she's any sort of Master Manipulator. I even scanned some of the pre-merge recaps from that season & she was barely mentioned except for how bad she was at challenges.