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Well, let's see if the players union has the juice to get a better deal in 2025 when they're expected to opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement. NBA players get 50% of the revenue while WNBA get 10%. Regardless, they'd still have vastly smaller salaries than their NBA counterparts and people looking to score cheap points would still get all worked up about the pay disparity. If the owners do what they'll probably want to do (i.e. cheap out), will the players be willing to hold the line and dare them to have a lockout?

Cool, Nightcrawler gets his own character card in the intro AND replaces Gambit in the group shot of the team running (not the last one, but the mid-credits one). So naturally he, like most of the other X-Men, isn't in the episode at all. If all of the Storm stuff was cobbled together I don't think it would be longer than one episode. And who knew that when you regain your powers you also gain the ability to grow a new outfit and press fast forward on your hair growth? I have forgotten my greatest gift - I can trap you in a classroom until you agree with me!

Speaking of tomorrow's episode....

Kind of interesting to see it laid out like this. And who knew that being a lifetime fan of the White Sox just plain sucks?

Why is that the worst case scenario? If you hate the Lakers and Warriors then why hope for a quick end when you can watch them get bludgeoned by OKC and Denver over the next week?

Lorne's like everyone else - it depends on who's doing it. Someone he likes? It's OK. Someone he dislikes? What an unprofessional asshole - hold it together, you jackass. See one Jimmy Fallon for an example of that..

TV-PG: "Parents may find material unsuitable for younger children. Contains one or more of the following moderate violence (V), some sexual situations (S), infrequent coarse language (L) or some suggestive dialogue (D)." TV-14: "Parents may find some material unsuitable for children younger than 14. Contains one or more of the following: intense violence (V), intense sexual situations (S), strong coarse language (L) or intensely suggestive dialogue (D)." Sounds like your thoughts are well in line with the PG definition.

Jean met Cable during the original series. She even scanned his mind and an image of her and Scott came up, so it's hinted she figured out his origin. She tells Scott that he's very important to their future and naturally he has no followup questions, so it's never mentioned again.

Yes, it does make Magneto look like a giant creep. Makes you wonder what Xavier thought about all of it (he did block a lot of Rogue's memories to prevent Carol Danvers' psyche from killing her, so he would have known about it). Speaking of Carol and other heroes in general, from one of the new promos it looks like we may be seeing at least one non X-Men hero. Most of it is old footage, but there are a couple of new bits.

The original article, with the relevant part copied below: "CinemaCon got to see the very first footage from Captain America: Brave New World. The clip that Disney showed CinemaCon attendees follows Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) meeting Thunderbolt Ross (Harrison Ford), who is now the president, at the White House. Ross is asking to meet with Wilson so he can reunite the Avengers with a new Captain America at the forefront. He’s looking to unite forces, but he might have some ulterior motives unknown to everyone else. During a meeting where Ross is presenting this plan to a crowd, with Sam in attendance, a mysterious villain takes over the speakers and controls the minds of secret service agents and Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly), whom Sam struggles to pin down in a fight. Full chaos ensues which leads us to a montage of the different action set pieces of the film. We see Sam getting attacked at the White House, using his shield to block himself from multiple Secret Service agents trying to tase him. We see shots of Sam Wilson and Joaquín Torres in action together. Everything builds up to a tense confrontation between Sam and Thunderbolt Ross inside the Oval Office, wherein Ross tells him, “You’re not Steve Rogers.” After a long pause, Sam says, “You’re right, I’m not.” Finally, we see Sam suit up in the new Captain America suit, which is more silver and blue than blue and white." So before you Hulk out and go rampaging around the neighborhood, this doesn't sound like Ross = greatest person ever. Of course he'd want a new Avengers team because he'd consider them his own personal task force.

Looks like the conspiracy theorists will now shake their heads and say the Dodgers and/or Rob Manfred convinced the DOJ to scapegoat Ippei and leave Ohtani out of it. I mean, the Japanese prime minister has been visiting the US over the past couple of days. Coincidence? Only a fool would believe that, he needed to meet with Biden to finalize the details...

The villain lineup is slightly different - Emma Frost and Lady Deathstrike have replaced the bald guy and Native American. Roberto is the newbie, so it makes sense that he takes Jubilee's fence shot.

OJ has died

He's been seen multiple times. The first time he was wandering around Genosha as a mercenary fighting for freedom, but later on they established he was fighting Apocalypse in the future. In fact, there was an episode where Apocalypse killed the X-Men thanks to Bishop's actions, so Cable has to head back and fix things. So there's a precedent, especially since this episode made it sound like this wasn't his first try at intervening.

I wonder if Scott has been watching Magneto's old speeches. That little diatribe he unleashed was straight from the mutant supremacist's handbook, and he wouldn't have had it ready to go if he hadn't thought about it.