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  1. Something you do not know because you didn't watch Discovery, for which you should thank the gods: The writers are talentless hacks. So yeah, that doesn't make sense, but pretty much nothing on Discovery makes sense. So par for the course. Sadly the Strange New World writers are now beholden to what Discovery established.
  2. Queens really aren't that rare. Female pirate captains were rare yes, but they did exist (and some were crazy successfull), so a female cartel leader could also exist, as the rare exception. It's not like we are talking about all cartels becoming female-led all of a sudden. If Camilla was a young woman I would even agree with you, but she is older and already had an adult son. All these sexist gangsters still love and respect their mothers and the matriarach of the family usually has quite a bit of invluence in mexican society, as far as I know. So I can totally see a matriarch reigning the cartel.
  3. A quick google search tells me the opposite: "When the Court approves the motion, both the arrest and conviction(s) are sealed and both the State and Federal prohibitions against being able to purchase a firearm are removed." I actually would have been shocked if it was any other way. So yes Ruth could have owned a gun legally, and as the owner of a casino, a cash-business, would have had any reason to. She should have had at least one in her car. The pharma-lady said the Byrds didn't know and Camila seems to have bought it. Which seems contrived, but whatever...
  4. I'm not against Ruth dying and the Byrds getting away with everything in principle. That is the worst ending possible from a morality-standpoint, but those can be done really well. This just wasn't. At multiple points this season was really contrived and just didn't quite work. I mean we heard the shot. Jona shot his ass dead. Serves him right for coming to the Byrds to gloat instead of actually getting that evidence to the authorities. Though if he had, nothing would have come off it anyway. So Ruth had Ben's ashes. That doesn't proof the Byrds killed him, if anything it points to Ruth. Obsessive Ex kills her boyfriend because he wants to leave her and keeps his ashes so he has to be with her forever. The story practivally writes itself. I don't see why not. Women usually like to work more from the shadows through men because it's less dangerous, but they are certainly capable, when put in the postiion. There were respected queens, female pirate captains, etc. throughout history. Yeah his speech at the ending was dumb: "I mean who doesn't have a filled cookie jar, what's with that?" To which I ask: Who actually fills up these cookie jars? I've only ever seen them used for decoration and never actually filled. Or Ruth. It's not like she'd mind or could defend herself...
  5. The judge was specifically not corrupt, but a political aquaintance. So it wasn't in the bag.
  6. So Marty really only figured out now that it was Kamilla all along? Man, he has gotten a lot dumber than he used to be.
  7. Deviations from the predestined path created those universes. Until those decisions those universes didn't exist. That's one of the basic multiversal theories, that decision create new universes. Edit: Maybe Tara Strong can explain it to you: They are using "timeline" and "multiverse" interchangeably in the clip. But pay attention to the "Danger: Multiverse" screen at 1:15.
  8. There is no indication of what you are saying in the show. Instead it was spelled out multiple times that the TVA prunes all deviations and that there is only one timeline. You are just making stuff up by saying it was a multiverse. Yes. Though on the plus side, he only killed murderers. That's not as bad as torturing thousands of innocents for weeks, I think. But I guess you could argue the morality here. Well at least that is what we were told. But he should be in prison regardless.
  9. Maybe if somebody had actually held her accountable. But instead she got a speech from Monica Rambeau about how stunning and brave she was, for torturing a whole town for weeks, to the point that they wanted death, instead of having to continue in that nightmare. Wanda tortured thousands of people for weeks and then just flew away. Not even trying to make it up to them. We saw how economically depressed that town was. She is the Scarlet Witch and can make matter from nothing. Would it have been too much to ask to leave them a pile of gold or vibranium in at least an attempt to make amends and pay reparations? Not to mention the years she should have spent in prison for her crimes. That is a deeply selfish person who doesn't consider others for a second and is just going through the motions of "being good", because she thinks that's what she should be. So it's absolutely consistent characterisation that she'll walk over corpses if that is what she has to do to get what she wants.
  10. They had developed a warp-bomb. That is a planet killer and not in the sense of "oh it will be nuclear winter for a few hundret years and then life might recover", no in the sense of "the planet gets ripped in apart". It literally can't get any worse. We don't really know how old he is. He might be 70 or 80. He looks like a 50 year old to us, but there is no telling what that means with the medical technology in Star Trek.
  11. I advise you to watch Loki again. Kang the Conqueror He who Remains decided to destroy all other universes because otherwise they would inevitably go to war with each other. It was not about them being too different. It's just that divergences create new universes. There was exactly one sacred timeline/universe. I don't get how there could be any misunderstand about that.
  12. The TVA always purged all other universes. There was only one universe. That was the whole point of the TVA.
  13. Yes, when one of my favourite franchises came back after years of nothing I was so super spitefull. I hated them so much for bringing it back! How could they?! It's not like I was super excited about it and it just turned out to be a huge pile of dogshit or anything. Discovery and Picard have just been trash. It is how it is. Lower Decks is good. The first episode of Strange New Worlds was good. But I won't get my hopes up for that one yet. Bad writing. The timeline was never broken. This always happened. It just doesn't make sense. I think a huge problem was that they gave Patrick Stewart way too much creative control. In season one he wanted to be an action hero and in season two he wanted to inject all his family drama. Both things that don't really fit Picard that much. On Tuesday night I saw the new Doctor Strange movie and it is astounding how he totally can play a character just like he did 22 years ago. I never doubted that that was Prof X who I was seeing. Picard on the other hand, I would have never recognised, if they didn't say his name 99 times an episode. I took it, since this is a stable time loop, that the real Borg collective is still in the Delta quadrant and all of that always happened. Borgati just made her own collective. It also seems like she only has one ship. It was the only Borg ship in the shield wall. If she had a fleet she probably wouldn't have needed to ask the Federation for help. Not that the show explained any of this. The writers forgot (never knew) about them. And about Qs son, who Q was supposed to watch over for all eternity, according to a judgment by the continuum... He said he was giving her a field commission. Not sure if that changes anything or not. He also never said a rank. She just sat down in the captains chair. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  14. Interesting. I guess they never made that really clear on the show. It came off like Vulcans are like a lot of animals on earth. That they have a mating season and aren't really that interested in sex outside of it. But that was never specifically stated, it is true. So anything goes and the current writers are in charge of what is canon. That's a weird way of putting it. Why would it be bad? Just because humans are so horny everybody in the galaxy has to be? Also I would have assumed it staggers, so that not all Vulcans have the same 7 year cycle. Only mating every 7 years could have absolutely worked, especially with a species that lives so long as Vulcans do. It would have made sense as an evolutionary adaptation to prevent overpopulation.
  15. I always gave that a pass for Spock in the celvin timeline, since he is half human. So he might be perma-horny like a human male and get the pon farr on top, but I really don't think his vulcan wife should be into sex most of the time. Btw. how does that work? Do the males go into pon farr and the females just lie there and think of queen and country or does something in them get triggered as well?
  16. This was actually good. But I won't get my hopes up...
  17. Ugh, this was exhaustingly stupid. Not just the episode, but the whole season. But to the episode: They really have no way to save not-Laris from a Neurotxin? Her transporter doesn't have a Biofilter? That sacrifice was just dumb. They leave Soong just roaming around? You know, he could just kill Rene and get the alien life form when she gets back, with the unrestricted access he seems to have. I mean he should be dead, because the dumbass touched the neurotoxin-pad with his bare fingers, but apparently he survived it. The timeline doesn't work at all with what was previously established in Trek, but these writers don't know and don't care. At the end Q says that he told Picard from the beginning "that this was all about forgiveness", which is bullshit, he said this was about "penance". They even reiterated it in the previously on. What a massive fuckup. Also why is Q dying alone? He has a whole Continuum. He even has a son. As far as I know, as we left off, the continuum even judged that Q would have to watch over his son for all eternity. So where is he? These writers never watched Voyager and only skimmed TNG, didn't they? "Who I am is a long story." Proceeds to tell it in two sentences. Shut up Wesley! So now that it is established that this timeline has always been this way, that it was predestined, bullet holes in the chateau and all, why didn't Guinan remember that she met Picard in the 1800s? Let me guess. The answer is as always: These writers don't know Star Trek. Don't you know, massive plot contrivance is a free action and requires almost no power!
  18. That is an alternate universe version of him though. The illuminati had Captain Carter instead of Captain america, an alternate version of captain Marvel, Mordo as sorcerer supreme and Prof X, who wasn't in the Marvel universe before either. That isn't to say that the actor isn't going to be Reed Richards in the prime universe. In fact I think it's likely. Part of the Illuminate was also Anson Mount as Black Bolt and he did play that character in the Prime universe (the show was just so attrocious that everybody has tried to forget it). Just don't assume it's 100% confirmation.
  19. A few more thoughts: It sure was convenient that Professor X only invaded Wanda's mind once all the rest of the Illuminati were dead. Otherwise they could have dismantled her 10 times over in the time he had locked her in place. What was he doing in the meantime? Playing on his phone? Also the leader of the inhumans blowing his own brains out just because he didn't have a mouth was a bit stupid. Either he is resistant to his own powers or he would have been dead the moment he first used them. There is no way for the sound waves not to resonate in his body. I really don't mean to be so negative, but sadly this film falls more and more apart the more you think about it. Still a fun romp, though. So they are sticking with this horror-bullshit, huh? Really makes me wonder if some of these critics are paid off by Disney or if they just glom onto a catchy narrative for clicks.
  20. Having slept on it, this movie makes less and less sense. Wanda is the Scarlet witch. She can create matter from nothing. Why does she have to invade other universes? She could just make her sons again. She did so before. Sure that was in a moment of intense grief and on instinct, but all through this movie Strange was telling America that the multiverse travel she did on instinct was in her control all along and she just needed to be confident in herself. Are we dropping this theme when it comes to Wanda? Also she's way more powerfull now than she was in Westview. The only counterargument I could see is that those newly created kids wouldn't be quite the same as hers, but the same goes for her kids in other universes and that doesn't seem to bother her. There is literally no reason for her to invade another universe. Just do the same spell you did in Westview, only this time without including anybody else. Since the movie is out I'm not going to use spoiler tags. I think that gets too messy over time. The kids are still about the same age they were in Wandavision. Was even surprised how little those actors had aged. Guess it wasn't actually that long ago. The pandemic makes my sense of time screwey. Also they were left in the other universe and didn't seem to have any powers. Well, it's always hard to say for sure when you don't see a body. She dropped a temple on herself in an act of penance. In a bit of retconing the temple was the real darkhold and the book was just a transcription. That somehow destroyed the Darkhold in every universe.
  21. Sorry, but it pretty much ended up as you feared. I also don't think her motivation made much sense. As America could have just sent her to a universe with her kids and (almost) everybody would have been happy. But I guess I can fanwank it with the darkhold having corrupted her mind, so that she wasn't thinking clearly anymore. But that makes the ending even dumber...
  22. The movie is out. I just came from the theater. So be warned, I'm going to talk about what I saw: First of all I had heard that Wanda would be a villian in this movie but I didn't think she would be the only villian for the whole thing. I thought there would be another main villian and she would get corrupted later. Nope, fully insane and evil from the start. I think this is the first time where you have to have seen a Marvel TV show for context. The whole movie is about Wanda wanting to get her boys back and without the show, her having kids will come hard out of left field. Also apparently they are real in every other universe. Only in the prime universe were they constructs. Which is weird, since I'm pretty sure the whole Wandavision show happened before the universe split into a multiverse, because he who remains and the TVA purged all other universes. For that matter, America shouldn't have been able to send her parents into other universes, because there were no other universes. Oh well, wibbely wobbely timey wimey, I guess. The Bruce Campbell cameo surprised me. I had totally forgotten that Ramey directed this movie. With Stan Lee sadly being dead, Campbell is a worthy replacement, imo. Speaking of Ramey, when I googled the film I saw quite a few headlines saying "Marvel made a horror movie". I can't help but laugh at that. This was your standard Marvel flick with some added weird imagery, not much more and even that was weirder in the first Dr. Strange movie. This isn't even Horror by kids-standards. Not that I'm complaining, I think Horror is boring as hell, but come on, Agents of SHIELD had far more disturbing stuff than this movie. It's the same as with moon night. All the marketing beforehand said how it was dark and gritty and wouldn't hold back on the violence and then it's the same PG-13 stuff as always, where they cut away from the real violence. I don't even mind it, I just don't like being lied to. It was nice to see Patrick Stewart reprise an old role and that character actually feeling and acting like the old character, even though he is an alternate universe version. With Picard, it's basically a whole different person he's playing. Only complaint is, that Wanda killed him a bit fast for the insanely powerfull telepath he is. I know the Scarlet Witch is immensly powerfull, but in her mind, they should have been at least evenly matched. That would have been a fun opportunity for a fight scene that isn't constraint by the physical world. Also nice to see Captain Carter again. Way too short sadly. I hope we get to see another version of her, for longer next time. I really don't give a sh*t about Dr. Strange's love life and what's her face. At the beginning of the movie I was confused for a bit, because I thought she had died in the car crash, but that was a What If?. Speaking of that, would have been fun if we had included the eldritch-pocket-dimension-Strange. That might have made for some actual horror potential... The Darkhold-Strange just didn't do it for me. The eldritch-Strange was waaaay more unsettling. I think they really should have brought Agatha back to help fight Wanda at the end. I mean what doesn't get better by including Kathryn Hahn?! Movie? Yes! Party? Yes! Salsa Sauce? Yes! Zombie-Strange was really fun though. The resolution then was really meh. Wanda is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs the whole movie, but 5 seconds of showing her, that her alternate universe kids are afraid of her, makes her realise that she has become a monster, killed countless people and now she is destroying the Darkhold in every universe and dropping a temple on her head? Yeah sure writers, sure. At least, if she is really dead, she did some penance this time. In contrast to the ending of Wandavision, where she had enslaved a whole town for weeks, all of them suffering so much that they wanted the sweet release of death and then at the end, instead of getting thrown in prison for her crimes, even got a pep talk "they'll never know what you gave up for them". That was truely sickening. Overall a good Marvel Movie. I'd say more towards the middle than the top though...
  23. A space elevator is a real concept that isn't just something crackpots think would be cool. What does it go to? A little station at geostationary orbit. Which isn't a low orbit. The counterweight is even further out. What's the point? To get freight up there. Getting 1kg into orbit costs $12k at the lowest, at the moment. With an elevator it would be way, way, way less, after initial investment. Not to mention all the burnt fuel. Many people say a space elevator would be the prerequisite to colonising the solar system. So why hasn't anybody done it yet? Because any material we can make cables from would snap under its own weight. Graphene and carbon nanotubes are strong and light enough to withstand the forces, but we can't make cables of significant length out of them (yet). I think eventually one will be built, but that might still be a 100 years or more off. Also the first space elevator will probably be built on the moon. Because of lower gravity, there you can just use steel cables to get into orbit. That one depends entirely on when mining on the moon becomes profitable. If you want to read a bit further: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator So Neil is kind of an idiot, but not because he believes in the concept but because he believes it is doable now... also because LA isn't exactly on the equator...
  24. Not sure if my post was delted or if it just fell victim to the maintenance. Couldn't think of a reason since there were no spoilers in it and I only talked about the last episode. So I'm assuming the first. To recap: It makes perfect sense that King is a titan. Should have really seen it coming, but didn't, I have to confess. At least they have an unlimited supply of titan blood now. :)
  25. "We need to get to the other side of the wineyard to take back the ship!" "Okay, should we just beam there?" "Nah, too easy. Let's split up so an army of Borg has the opportunity to pick us off one by one!" Maybe somebody should have told Soong what the Borg really are and that the only future humanity would have, with him helping them, would be assimilation into the collective. That that would be his legacy. But nope, that would make too much sense. (that it did pan out differently in the end doesn't really matter) I have to say though, I really liked the scene between Jurati and the Queen. I'm not the biggest fan of turning the Borg from something really alien, an unknowable collective, to a one woman show, but that was already mostly done in the TNG movies and Voyager. With the state that the Borg are, this was nicely done. Exploring the psychology of the queen, getting her to see better paths. That seems like something you'd see in a Star Trek Show. Also really well acted. On both parts. I really could have done with more of that throughout the season and less of retconing Picards childhood. Then the ending was pretty damn dumb again. Seven and Raphy tell the other group that the Borg queen is taking the ship and they are all like "k, that's nice." When the reaction should have been "Wtf?! We have to stop her!". Because nobody had told them yet about the queens change of heart. I guess we now know who the Borg queen from episode one was and why they suspiciously wouldn't show her face though. You'd think that she would have slightly better social skills, with her being half Jurati though. I mean not massively better, but at least better than just beaming onto the ship and trying to assimilate the data. Had it not been for Q, everybody would be dead now, including her. That seems like really contrived writing in hindsight. It's certainly a retcon. Retcon means "retroactive continuity". That's what this is. The only question is if it's a good one or a bad one, if it's believeable or not. I guess you have to decide for yourself. When were we told where his brother was? I just remember speculation that he might be at school in multiple episode threads here. Are you sure you aren't thinking of those? That's still a retcon. I think a lot of people here think it's only a retcon if the writers change the past badly. The opposite is the case. A retcon is supposed to be seamless. If writers change the past badly it's usually just called a hack job. Which makes no sense, but I already ranted about the in the episode 1 thread. Roddenberry's explaination was that in the 24th they wouldn't care about baldness. I think they'd very much still care about debilitating depression though. So not sure why that isn't cured at that point.
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