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2 hours ago, Abra said:
Steve absolutely deserved to be happy, but he did not deserve to play god (with billions of lives) so he could be happy, which is exactly what he did.
6 hours ago, tv echo said:Steve had sacrificed himself repeatedly for the past 10 years and 70 years before that. So I don't begrudge him if he finally wanted to find some happiness for himself. That was after he had been prepared to fight the entire Thanos army all by himself and then did fight (once again) with the other Avengers to defeat Thanos. He's not obligated to sacrifice himself for the world for the entirety of his existence. Does he owe the world his entire life? Should he have stayed in a time where he wasn't happy, just for the sake of Bucky and Sam - adults who have to find their own destiny - or for the sake of Sharon - whom he didn't love in the way that's needed for a committed relationship? Bucky and Sam understood Steve's decision and didn't resent him for it. In fact, I think they approved of Steve being a little selfish for once.
I really love that this universe, as well as Steve and the guys, have us so engrossed that we’ve got to the ‘Of course Greedo/Han would have shot first, it goes to the center of who Han is’ level of obsession about 40 years early.
Right there with all of y’all. (BTW Han definitely shot first, to infinity, no returns).
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I dunno guys, if I were Sharon I’d be so pissed because she was really trying, and let’s face it, we’ve all been there. But I kind of read Steve’s desertion, once he had a route back, as inevitable.
I mean, it was Peggy Carter. Even Steve, great as he was, is human. I don’t think a saint could turn her down. Certainly Bucky gets it, we already saw that he’d have gone with Peggy anywhere in a heartbeat if she’d ever noticed he existed. I think Sam would be cool with it as well. They loved and needed Steve, he loved them, they were besties. But, you know, it was Peggy. The fact that it was out of character was kind of the point. That love was beyond any kind of reasoning or resistance.
But yeah, Steve has to have been in an alt-universe, or he’d have left Hydra in charge of Peggy’s beloved S.H.E.I.L.D (and the world) and Bucky being tortured for seventy years. He just can’t have been in our Prime universe, or he’d have been a monster.
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38 minutes ago, Gin and Tonic said:
The deliberate dark sensuality of the scene where Zemo was offering up Bucky, and the kind of ... resignation? familiarity?... toward that kind of rhetoric on Bucky’s part was super dark.
Yes, it’s probably just because it’s on Disney but I was kind of amazed that they actually went there.
The similarities with the Winter Soldier program and the Roman gladiatorial culture continues. When someone owns you and makes you kill, they’re probably going to ignore all your other boundaries when they hire you out. The moral of history is that people suck.
Poor Bucky. Presumably he remembers all that as well.
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So Sharon is still Agent Carter undercover, right? That woman with the car seemed official. In that case, good for her that she guilt tripped the boys six ways. They do deserve it. Best that nobody mentions how Steve is now her elderly great-uncle. If she felt hard done by before...
Also, the Carter women still can’t resist ogling a man with his shirt off.
Zemo is such dad-dancing a nerd. What is with that coat? It makes him look like a grandma.
Glad to see Wakanda is back in the mix.
To be honest, I know that going back to being the Winter Solider undercover was supposed to be really traumatic for Bucky, but all he had to do was smash some people into walls, which is more or less what he does as a day job anyway.
I totally hadn’t clocked that Bucky’s fix-things-list notebook was also Steve’s learn-things-list notebook. That was one of the nicest things in that movie - in many parts of the world, the list shown on screen was different and about your own national or regional post 1945 history. The idea was that he’d just spoken to a tourist from your country and wanted to learn all about your recent history, even if it had nothing to do with the USA. I think that’s noticeable here, Steve was also international, he loved that other places were different, he thought other countries were important too, he went out of his way to learn French. John Walker doesn’t do languages, he has people for that. Don’t you know who he IS?
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Well, holy shit snacks. This sucks balls.
https://tvline.com/2021/03/25/jessica-walter-dies-arrested-development-actress-dead-80/
She was all kinds of impressive, funny, gorgeous and wonderful.
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On 3/2/2021 at 3:13 AM, DavidWeis1 said:
There’ve been a few articles suggesting there’s talk about bringing back Quantum Leap, which Bakula has been positive about. But, no offense, he might a little too old for that role or for taking on Enterprise. I could see him being a “special” guest star to get one of them off the ground. I think Bakula pretty much has his golden years set.
Well Patrick Stewart is 80 and he’s back fighting alien crime, so the Enterprise one could happen if anyone wanted it.
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Upsetting allegations about one of the programs for troubled kids the show has used:
As well as an update on the ‘Catch me outside’ girl.
I remember Phil saying he had vetted all these programs for troubled kids and I think he’s even done shows about how other programs were dangerous. I don’t think the people who work on the show, whatever the show’s other issues, would ever knowingly put a kid in harms way.
However, having personally seen a bit of what goes on at a regular academic boarding school, let’s say this wouldn’t surprise me. Even normal boarding schools can get toxic really fast.
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Love how much FaCaptain America holding the shield makes you want to cringe. Did he wink?
Typical for the Flag Smashers to try to use utopian idealistic people who want everyone to have open borders for what will presumably turn out to be a plan for evil world domination.
I want to visit that Smithsonian exhibition so much. I always do. It looks super interesting and detailed. So many exhibits! So much etched glass!
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That was like a mini-movie! Loved it. Loved that last clip with Wanda living in what looked a little cabin among some happy little trees and some big old mountains, exactly as painted by Bob Ross. While her witch-self eats up knowledge. She’s becoming something new, something stronger.
Before this my main appreciation of Wanda and Vision was their great taste in cities to hide in (Edinburgh), but I think most people have become really invested in them, as much as we might have been invested in The Cap and Peggy or Tony and Pepper. They are officially an epic star-crossed romance now.
I still don’t buy Ralph Bohner isn’t Peter on some level, though. They can retcon that whenever they like. They really hired Evan Peters just as a joke? Nah, come on. He’s something else. Either that, or it’ll turn out that the Speedy Powers didn’t leave him when Monica broke the spell.
So Agatha-Agnes is left living an ordinary life in Westview? Isn’t that a bit... dangerous? I dread to think what could happen to that town. She’ll be back.
The kids are still out there somewhere, in danger. Somehow, they are part of something bigger. What remains of Vision is out there somewhere, even if he doesn’t have his emotions, that’s solvable because Wanda still contains his Mind stone self somewhere inside herself. There’s still so much hope left for Wanda, even if she doesn’t know it.
Monica is out for space adventures. S.W.O.R.D might have to wait a little longer for her to be their leader. I’m so looking forward to what happens next. She’s going to be in Captain Marvel 2, right?
We need a series where Darcy and Jimmy fight crime. The Ordinary Avengers?
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A double misdirection! Those are rare. I was almost convinced that S.W.O.R.D weren’t actually bringing back Vision, but... not quite. Although, this one’s not going to be our Vision, is he?
Wanda’s beautiful family life was ruined by the bomb and she learned then that grief was fear and anger, just destruction.
So Wanda went with HYDRA and found a group who represented her hate.
But then she absorbed her powers from the same Mind stone that Vision did. They both get their powers from the same place, and she had that vital piece of him inside her, before he even existed. She always contained a piece of his mind and his heart, as it were. They were soulmates, in a roundabout way.
We see here in this episode in their conversation about grief that, despite as he says, always being alone, Vision naturally understood Wanda’s better, deeper feelings and what lay behind them. He takes her anger, fear and hate that she had learned to recognize as grief and digs to find her true feelings underneath those easier emotions. He can bring back to her that hidden love that she pushes away because it hurts too much to feel it. She could give him the companionship, the laughter and happiness that he clearly craved. They knew each other’s mind. They had to be together, because they made each other better.
Did she remember that idea of the persistence of love as she broke her heart over their lost home, their lost love, and ripped out the part of herself that the Mind stone had put there, the part that was part of Vision as well? She made that bond and that dream real. But in doing so she ate up the lives of everyone around her, just as Stark Industries’ errant bomb ate up the lives of her parents and the lives that they should have lived together.
She became the thing that she never meant to be, for the best of reasons. The road to hell is paved that way.
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I find it really interesting that CC mentioned that he commented publicly and rudely on her weight before she told him about the pregnancy.
I always thought it was interesting that like on ‘Ally McBeal’, a supposedly feminist show seemed to only cast tiny actresses, starting from the re-cast of Willow from the first pilot.
For me, a feminist show even at that point should have had some strong older women, some proudly fat women, weightlifting female demons or something, as well as tiny women. But the women on Buffy and Angel (and Firefly) just seemed to get physically smaller as time went on. It bothered me at the time, when Joss was held up as this great feminist. The actresses were all so talented, but the variety of wonderful, beautiful women was never visible in his universe.
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She recast Pietro Maximoff with the nearest similar being in (now) Marvel’s universe, but as well as taking over Westview, has she opened a portal to the X-dimension? Should we adjust our television set, or nah?
This X-Peter Maximoff is at this point about thirty years older than his ‘twin’ as well, which could make life confusing. Unless the fact that the show is currently in the eighties (X-Men Apocalypse era) means that they’re actually the same age...
I actually don’t believe that this version of Wanda would recast Pietro. I mean, what’s the point? Vis is dead to her, but he’s still himself. Pietro and Peter are not at all the same person to her, even if they play the same character in different universes. This seems like someone else fighting back or messing with her.
So Monica doesn’t show up on any scans? What, is she a vampire?
Speaking of the undead, that view of the S.W.O.R.D scientists clearly trying to rig up bits of dead Vision together with cables rather gave the lie to the idea that they cared so much about his ‘living will’. I wouldn’t be surprised if Wanda discovered that they were trying to make him into a weapon after all. This could originally have been her way to try to ‘save’ him from that fate by hiding him away from the world.
I loved that moment when Vision has his hands around Wanda trying to make her see that she’s being unkind, the doorbell rings, and his hands just drop in defeat. I don’t know why, but it really chimed with how us viewers are mostly feeling. We’re right there with him, going ‘Please don’t be the ultimate big bad, Wanda’. But then she always seems to be.
This is a show about death and grief in so many interesting ways. Vis is dead. Pietro is dead. Sparky is dead. Maria is dead. Monica and Wanda were dead for five years. The boys are fast forwarding their ‘life’ away. Wanda’s life is fake. Everyone in Westview is missing out on their life and loved ones entirely. Everyone is losing or has lost so much. It feels appropriate, right now.
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Grudge really is going turn out to be a queen, isn’t she?
In season 5, in a very special episode, she breaks her vow of silence and turns out to be Queen of the Lolcats of Nepeta Cataria 7.
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Joe had a steady gig at the club at 7pm and a job teaching band until like what? 2.30pm? Dude is clearly going to do both and I reckon there might be time in that schedule for something with Dorothea as well. She seemed like she’d be interesting company. Joe didn’t seem to have had a whole lot of friends.
People can do more than one job, and a lot more besides.
I was really happy that Joe didn’t go to the great beyond or stay in the great before, because the whole point of the movie for me is that he was a middle aged man who hadn’t really lived yet. He almost did, but somewhere he stopped. That’s how he and 22 came to care about each other - they were both kind of in the same boat. I loved this movie like I loved ‘Picard’ this year - that message of, you know, you might not be young but there’s piles of time left to live the life you wanted if you just look up from your stuff and get out there and do new things.
That’s a message so many people need to hear, because the general message of so many stories is so often that if you didn’t make the right choices before a certain age, your life is basically over and you need to give up. And that message is such utter bollocks.
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So I guess the page of Carl’s newspaper last week really was the clue to his identity that I thought it was. It’s really lovely to have a connection with one of my favorite ever episodes of Star Trek.
They’re going to have to make a ‘Star Trek: Temporal War’ series in a few years, aren’t they? I would watch that. I never even hated Crewman Daniels as much as some people did. Perhaps Admiral Janeway could be in it, popping migraine pills all the way.
I had come to really enjoy Phillipa’s weird ways, although I doubt most of the crew would miss her. I think Burnham was probably the only one who really liked her. Everyone else was probably just being nice.
I mean, Saru was certainly very quick to declare her dead, with a bit too much relief. (Of course, from their future based perspective, everyone they ever met is dead).
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32 minutes ago, paigow said:
It is impossible to reconcile Abrams as canon. Nero blew up Vulcan whereas it survived in Roddenverse but has undergone a name change. Pretty sure that Picard mentions Spock died of old age...because Prime!Federation never tried to save Romulus by creating a black hole.
Nah, the Kelvinverse is totally cannon. Picard tried to evacuate Romulus because Spock’s plan had failed and he was assumed to be dead because he disappeared by getting sucked into the black hole. That’s why everyone in the Primeverse assumes that Spock’s dead after that.
Nero blew up the Vulcan in the Kelvinverse, so that was Alt-Vulcan anyway and has no connection to ‘our’ Vulcan still existing. I do want Michael to find out what happened, that Spock founded New Vulcan on the other side before dying of great old age. She kvelled enough about him trying to reunify Romulus and Vulcan, but that would make her head explode with pride.
I would really love for all this to be leading in about four or five years to a giant Manyverse crossover, with any surviving TOS crew (come on, George, Nichelle and Walter at least? Please? Even if they stay seated the whole time?) any of the Abrams chicos and chicas who want to come back for a last hurrah, and the current TV crew of the Enterprise all coming together somehow to fight crime on ‘Strange New Worlds’. Especially once New-New-Kirk inevitably starts making cameos on that show.
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1 hour ago, paigow said:
Doubtful...he had millions of years to upgrade his user interface before Kirk showed up and never did. Also his planet was a dark wasteland without snow.
‘I cannot change’ - The Guardian of Forever (unknown entity), ‘The City on the Edge of Forever’, 1967
‘You know, coming back in time, changing history... that’s cheating’ - Jim Kirk (notorious big old cheater, see his score on The Kobayashi Maru test for details) ’A trick I learned from an old friend’ - Spock (possibly an exaggerater on occasion, but originally definitely not a cheater at all), ‘Star Trek’, 2009
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This was Georgiou’s chance to realize that one can never really go home again, I think. It’s like Frodo discovering that he’s outgrown The Shire because he has seen evil, except in reverse. She’s been fatally contaminated by the Federation’s let’s-all-get-along-ness.
Jim Brass is the Guardian of Forever, I’m almost certain. If you read the back page of his newspaper that he shows us at one point, it has something about help for the unemployed in what looks like the Depression era that Edith Keeler would probably be involved in. Plus, he’s sitting right next to a big damn interdimensional door. I guess the Guardian has evolved in the last 800 years as well.
And yes, please let Lorca come back ASAP. We never saw a body, so Prime Lorca is definitely still alive somewhere (and who doesn’t want to see the probably super laid-back ‘aw shucks’ kind of Lorca that might be), but for now Mirror Lorca would be so great to see again.
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Well, and ‘Ensign’ Wesley Crusher. Stupid over-promotion has been a feature of ST for some time.
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I am not ok with this cancellation.
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You are a lot kinder than me.
I feel like, when you are reporting international news, you probably should have noticed that both governments of countries you are saying have zero cases are simultaneously making public statements about the second wave that is currently happening and that other nations in the area are putting in travel bans to those areas of France and Spain affected. I mean, this has been a prominent story in most reputable newspapers. Perhaps it was based on ignorance, but if you’re in news reporting and are telling people something so far outside the facts, that’s just another reason people shouldn’t trust you. Is a lie based on ignorance not still a lie? The intention may be different, but the result is the same.
Besides, when you see a figure of zero Covid cases at the moment, outside New Zealand perhaps, it’s just general knowledge that it’s going to be wrong.
I also have huge suspicions about the fact that this was reported on a Monday, probably because they knew that it would be the only day where they could make such a statement and have plausible deniability.
Who knows, but I was going to catch up with the show and switched it off after that statement in utter disgust. I will probably avoid the show from now on. You can’t criticise ridiculous incidents of fake news and then make it so blatantly yourself. I will retreat back to Maddow only for my opinion based reporting.
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It is driving me nuts that Lawrence and some other shows on MSNBC were saying Monday that France and Spain had zero new cases on Sunday.
It only appeared that way due to the lag in reported cases in France due to the weekend, they don’t count them and then have a huge total every week for Monday which includes all the cases from the last three days. Therefore Monday’s total was 3,376, making it over 1,000 cases per day. This pattern of not giving daily totals is clear to see from any chart from the last few weeks.
The exact same thing is true of Spain, which had 8,532 cases on Monday after not counting any cases over the weekend.
Come on, Lawrence and MSNBC. We rely on you to be more truthful than Fox. Don’t fall into the trap of fudging the numbers to get the result you want for the story. Don’t try to trick us. The US figures are still way worse than in any of these countries, but you don’t have to lie by omission to get that information across. Because then you just look like another bunch of con artists.
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18 minutes ago, tres bien said:
I also don't like that when subbing the sub takes on the same demeanor and style as the regular host. But maybe they think that's what the viewers want.
Yes, I find this a little creepy too. I know they all have a schtick and that what we see on screen isn’t them really, but it’s weird and off putting when the same exact schtick is coming out of the mouth of a completely different person.
Having said that, despite this Ali has really been great this last week. Perhaps Rachel has caught enough fish to come back soon.
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I think we will certainly see Kirk on SNW. At least it if runs for more than three years.
They’re probably in about 2257 now? Isn’t that about the same time as Kirk is a little baby officer on the Farragut? So he’s around, probably moving on from that ship after that disaster. Members of the Enterprise crew will probably come across him. I wouldn’t mind.
And of course, if the show runs for the traditional 7 years, we will see him take over command from Pike in the last episode. So I think we probably have to meet him before that.
I’d love them to run into most of the crew actually, just in passing, silly ways, perhaps without really signposting who they are. Like when the characters in ‘Lost’ were always randomly running past each other in the flashbacks. They hail another ship and Ensign Uhura answers. They meet one Dr Korby on a mission and his girlfriend starts ogling Spock and talking about how she really must join Starfleet. At this point I guess Chekov is probably about 10 years old. That could be hilarious.
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Sam and Bucky...Sitting In a Tree?: Speculation with Spoilers
in The Falcon And The Winter Soldier
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From what we just saw in the last episode with Zemo pretending to sell Bucky, time off for that was not quite what they appear to have been doing to the Winter Soldier.
So in that context, yeah, much as I love Mark Hamill and his delightful dog videos, really don’t want to see any kids popping up. That would be kind of upsetting and depressing for everyone, including the audience.
But yes, we need six seasons and a movie (at least). The Captain America movies have to continue for at least three more with Sam and Bucky right? Or the TV equivalent, since this is the golden age of series, and this thing clearly cost at least the same as a full movie.
I’m holding on to the hope that Disney 110% know what it would look like if non-blond Sam doesn’t get the same respect as yes-he-is-quite-blond-actually Steve. Because as far as the acting is concerned, or the likability of the character as we’ve been seeing, there’d be absolutely no reason for that. As pointed out, Captain America and the White Wolf has a pretty amazing ring to it.
I’m just so excited to see what those wings will look like with the Captain America regalia on them. Cannot wait.