swanpride
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I don't think that you would need a second villain. You could, for example, make the movie about some sort of catastrophe which needs to be prevented, have Black Panther and Namor go up against each other how or if the catastrophe should be prevented and then have them team up in the last minute. Then you have your big action set-piece towards the end without the need to a villain.
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Honestly, they should have left out the "cutting the branches" line, because for all we know, every single time jump created a new timeline. The 2012 and 2014 timelines are clearly messed up, and the 1970 one MIGHT have lead to Howard Stark being a better father. And with the 2013 one, well, I can't of don't see Cap inserting the aether back (plus, isn't the aether a stone, now? Unless Doctor Strange turned all the stones back into their original shape…)
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Well, this is one of the fan wishes/theories, so I need more than a rumour.
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I rather have him changing the timeline than sitting on his hands BUT even in this scenario he would basically take over other Steve's live. Now, let's assume that this cap doesn't know where he was found. In this case at least leaving himself in the ice is defensible. Though this means that in this timeline, Alternate Steve woke up to a world in which another version of him has lived the live he wanted.
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Also, even in the first movie, his motivation was never Peggy. It was ALWAYS Bucky. Every important decision Steve has made - rescuing the imprisoned soldiers, stopping fighting on the helicarrier, fighting Tony - was at the end of the day because of Bucky. And we never got any conclusion to that story. Not just in terms of Steve either. There was never a moment in which Bucky and Tony meet again to give either of them some sort of conclusion.
It is just disappointing that two of the best movies of the whole MCU never really got a satisfying solution.
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Steve would be around 39 in 2023, yes. Which actually makes him one of the youngest Avenger. He is roughly the same age as Black Widow. Tony, Rhodey, Scott, Bucky aso are all older than him, only Wanda and Vision were younger. And naturally Peter.
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Btw, after thinking about this for a long. looong time...I would have just skipped the "turn over the shield" scene, and instead have just something "going wrong" and then having Cap lost in time, with his fate being unclear. yeah, this would have been kind of a depressing ending for him, but it would also be kind of finding to have the man who got lost in time literally lost in time. And it would have kept all the possibilities open.
They could have had a scene for Steve, Falcon and Bucky in which Steve says that he knows that if something happens to him, good men like them would continue his work, and then, after Cap vanishes, a scene in which Bucky indicates that if anyone deserves to take up Steve's mantle, it should be Falcon.-
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The "alternate timeline" is still the least worse of the scenarios for me, and it is still bad in a lot of ways.
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Not Steve Rogers. That is the great thing about his character in the first place, that he will always do the right thing.
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Probably, but those are mostly speculations and he deals in hard facts. No matter how likely said speculations are.
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Define Asian. Technically Ben Kingsley is Half-Asian.
What's changed though is that Perlmutter is no longer having a say at Marvel.
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Well, half of the battle is pandering and fanservice.
I agree that Marvel hasn't done enough yet, but they have to start somewhere.
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I am not sure if this is a case of him not being that smart, or a case of his intellect being stifled by a combination of laziness and english exceptionalism.
The result is the same, though.
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Yeah, I didn't laugh about that one either.
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Considering that she fails to complete her mission, I guess the help was needed. It just wasn't enough.
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In a way he describes a double con...acting stupid allows Johnson to pretend that he is down to earth despite his posh background. But people who are able to see through his act are prone to think that there is some sort of cunning plan behind it, and that his stupid act covers how smart he actually is. In reality he is acting stupid to hide the level of his stupidity - or laziness. I am sure that he has the ability to read article 5C and understand why it makes everything he claimed about 5B absurd, but he is too lazy to do so. Especially since he knows that this is not what his followers want to hear.
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I was first also on the "on the nose" side, but then I rethought my position and realised that I shouldn't even notice that there are only females on screen. I mean, there are all male scenes through the whole battle, having a line-up in which there happens to be only females shouldn't be any special. That it still is means that we need more of this, not less. Until we don't notice anymore.
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A lot of people love the female team up moment.
Also, Carol saying "hi Peter Parker" might still be my favourite moment of the whole battle. It made me smile.
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Honestly, I didn't like the Hugh Grant joke. For me, it is still too early to joke about 9/11. Most likely it always will be.
The thing with Johnson is that he really isn't as stupid as Trump is. The thing with Trump is that he is pretty much a product of US society: Born Rich and always able to get away with everything because of it. He actually is an idiot. Johnson isn't. His personality is carefully cultivated. That makes him in a way more dangerous. Just look at the whole tea episode. Great distraction. As is his trick to get the red bus out of google search. Way more smooth than firing off a racist tweet. Same with the woman looking like letterboxes incident. Because he used the words, but he used it in a statement which was supposedly about defending Muslims. So he manages to dog whistle while also having a handy defence at hand.
They are both grifters, though, but I think it is not really about the money for Johnson. It is about fame. Hence him spending tax payer money on vanity projects all the time.
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English Exceptionalism. It is really as easy as that. They just can't imagine that the EU wont cave if they are just obstinate enough, and the fact that they got an extension twice hasn't helped with the impression that the opinion of the EU doesn't really matter. Except it does.
They also STILL haven't understand that what they demand of the EU is worse than what they threaten to do.
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One thing for sure, Johnson is even more vile than John Oliver said. He didn't just make up a quote, he made up a quote by claiming it was by his own godfather. Also, even if Johnson and the Tories hadn't insulted more or less every single member state of the EU at this point - the French by constantly accusing them, that the bowtow to the Germans, the Germans by basically calling them Nazis, the Italians by belittling them during Prosecco incident and there was the time they managed to p... off ALL Eastern European states at once by claiming that the EU is like the Soviet Union - this behaviour which is somehow charming for Brits (I really don't get it), is extremely off-putting for foreigners. Just like Trump represents the ugly American, Johnson reminds everyone of the bumbling Brit, who thinks that he knows better but just makes everything worse. In addition, the French like their formalities and read the tussled hair and old-boy behaviour as disrespect and the Germans like their formalities and automatically resent person cult and flashy politicians (for obvious reasons). The way Johnson acts couldn't be worse if he wants to get taken in any way serious.
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European speaking here: My country thankfully still has mostly sane leaders. And while the Fall-out of Brexit will be terrible, it at least will do even more to curb the enthusiasm for blind nationalism even more than Brexit already has on the continent. I fail to see any upside from the perspective of the Brits.
Johnson is terrible and it is beyond me how anyone can be impressed by someone just because he looks and acts stupid. Maybe because I have little patience for stupid people in general and are more easily impressed by smart looking and acting people. But frankly, ALL contenders for office were either stupid or through and through corrupt or both, because no one, who has any smarts wants this job at the moment. The only way out of the current mess is another people's vote or outright revoking Article 50, and someone who would push for either has a snowball chance in hell to actually getting elected by the Tories. In a lot of ways, the UK was doomed the moment the vote went through. Realisation just hasn't hit yet.
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I am not quite clear how "real" those created beings are...I mean, Coulson/Sarge seems to be very real if he has been around for hundred of years. But the beings which were created last season kept vanishing….
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Double episode.
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Murder, She Wrote - General Discussion
in Murder, She Wrote
Honestly, the only episodes I don't like are the "Jessica tells a story" episodes. Those tended to be annoying.
One I particular like is the one which featured a young Jonathan Brandis as a kid. It isn't even a particular great episodes, but I like that for once they show a poor person who doesn't deserve to be poor. In most episodes you have a bunch of fairly rich people, at best there are some workers around, and if you see a poor person, it is usually some sort of criminal or someone who fell victim to someone else. You rarely saw poor people which were poor because, well, sometimes life just sucks, especially if you are a single mom.