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My one complaint about an otherwise spectacular episode was the contrivance of Sousa seeing the scars on Peggy's shoulder, digging through her war records, and only THEN breaking out the magnifying glass to find the same scars on the mystery blonde. If they'd just briefly shown him poring over the photos and noticing that detail as an identifying mark at the start of the episode it would have made a lot more sense for him to zero in on that feature when he got the two second glimpse of Peggy and get suspicious afterwards. As it was, "Hmmm, my co-worker who spent two years in Europe fighting the Nazis has gunshot scars--she must be the woman I've been investigating!" just doesn't make much sense. Maybe if she overshoots and lands in the mid-14th century?

I've managed thus far to avoid all but the first minute or so of Matt Smith's run, so I'm only going by the original appearance of the Weeping Angels in "Blink". But my impression from the talk of them being abstract beings from the early days of the universe and of quantum locking was that they were more like a static idea that merely resembles stone statues in their observed form, which couldn't be affected by outside forces. Hence the need to trick them into immobilizing each other rather than using Time Lord technology to destroy them in a direct fashion.

I don't want to think about the poor teenager who has to clean the back row of THAT theater!

We should also consider the amount of bang we get for our buck in a lot of today's movies, with special effects and location shoots and whatnot. My dad's generation got James Arness staggering around a poorly built set in monster makeup.

Ah Lucas Troy, how soon they forget.

I've heard of lots of people unable to put their smartphones down during a date. At least the movie characters don't care if you're not paying attention to them.

That was my understanding as well.

Not sure whether or not you want to keep the baby you're going to have? Don't worry, you'll be spared the decision when you fall down a convenient flight of stairs and miscarry. Maude must have taken the elevator every time right up until she left the abortion clinic.

I'd say it's a similar, if much rarer, thing to enjoying dressing up in the regalia of one's favorite sports team. (I once combined the two, wearing a bear mascot outfit for one of the Boston Bruins' away games. Hey, it cracked Ray Bourque up during the pre-game skate...)

Didn't all that jumping around more or less trigger her labor that weekend?

I love that they subverted the usual fairy tale plot in that way. If we get a second season I expect to see Madalena in full-blown Maleficent getup, maybe with a pet crow!

I think Peggy's objection wasn't to the SSR keeping experimental samples of Steve's blood so much as Howard keeping it himself and possibly profiteering off a last remnant of their mutual friend. She expected him to be more respectful based on the personal relationship he had with Steve. And lying to her about it certainly played a part.

Unflattering reviews I've read and the knowledge that this project is done by Michael Bay and a bunch of people who only have one of the Paranormal Activity found footage messes to their name will keep me from paying good money to see it.

The Oatmeal's plan for movie theater layout.

I suspect that at this point, as is probably the case for Keith Richards, the drugs contribute to the longevity rather than working against it.

"Let's drop some lead on these mother-!" I was pretty much just ignoring the characters and concentrating on the pretty explosions until they pulled the crew of geriatric sailors out of mothballs along with the U.S.S. Missouri. At that point they could have killed off everyone played by a major Hollywood actor and I'd have been happy rooting for the old salts!

I thought I recalled him being attached to the RAF, but you could be right. So that would make him what, 120 or so?

My money would be on the ancient WWII vet British butler that actually raised him while Mallory was throwing back whiskeys.

I suspected it would happen from the moment he first showed up, but when he made the comment about Lana's weight I honestly thought it might be his head he was going to lose.

One consistent element of the Defenders that ties together most of the comics runs is the group being called together by Dr. Strange. They might keep that element and have his movie lead into the series.

Hell, the fact she managed to stealth divorce Crazy Tom Cruise using burner phones and such tells me she's an excellent actor. Or possibly that she missed her true calling as a spy.

He did see her effortlessly take out Miles Van Ert while he was trying to chase the guy down, so I don't think he's completely in the dark about her capabilities. Yeah, the last apartment I moved from had 18" brick walls. I only heard my neighbor's smoke alarm faintly through facing kitchen doors, that place was almost soundproofed. The landlady can't be listening with a glass against every door!

I don't think it's even necessarily his age, so much as overall image. I mean, if you told me Daniel Radcliffe or Nicholas Hoult were playing a brilliant polymath scientist, I don't think I'd have any misgivings, and I had no problem with Ben Whislaw playing such a character in Skyfall. I just can't imagine Teller doing much other than angsting over his love life or trying to throw a wild party while someone's parents are out of town.

I know watching it is going to suck, but does the writer really think that many couples are going to be so bored they abandon decorum and get busy right in the theater to keep themselves entertained?

As soon as Isabella mentioned it I realized that an older Prince Harry wouldn't be all that funny, and they would be going in the other direction instead.