Dandesun

"Such a poser..."

Val told Yelena that Clint was responsible for Nat's death and she'd want to do something about that if she (Val) were her (Yelena.) BUT I can full on No Prize this as Eleanor's wanting Clint dead (for her own reasons) gave Yelena the chance to actually do something about it. She took the job because it gave her access to kill Clint and 'avenge' her sister. I'm just waiting for Yelena to realize... oh wait, Val isn't necessarily to be trusted.

Maya's father, according to Kazi, 'always put the men first' which suggests to me that he was beloved by those that were lower level. I'm going to speculate that this is not something that Kingpin wants in the long run because when it comes down to it, his people need to be loyal to HIM and not his lieutenants. However, using Ronin to eliminate a beloved figure means Kingpin can use that anger to his advantage. Kingpin is a chess player and has no problem sacrificing others for his gain. Now then... did I say "Oh My God" out loud at the end and scare my cats a bit this morning? Yes. Yes I did. Speculation is one thing but there's really something to be said for this one to actually be true. This really goes a long way to set up up Echo's mini. Well done on that score. This did shift me from really fucking wanting Charlie Cox' Daredevil to show up to really fucking needing it. To be fair, I'm trying my best to mitigate expectations because I don't think it fits in with this particular show as it stands. So, yeah... but Kingpin's appearance (along with Feige's comments) I feel assures us that Matt Murdock will be appearing in one of these Disney+ shows and I love that. Yelena is terrific. I'm not sure there's much time for her and Clint to straighten things out completely but I really need for them to be able to talk. Clint needs to tell her what happened. Yelena needs to know. And holy crap did I love the beginning with Yelena getting snapped and then back and the way that played out. Very cool. Really loving this series.

I think it's actually quite hilarious that Pottersville was obviously the blueprint for Back to the Future 2 when Biff turned Hill Valley into his own personal Atlantic City knock off.

I hope it happens. I fucking loved Charlie Cox' Daredevil/Matt Murdock and I hope Foggy comes too because... it's just what I want. And frankly, I'd love to see him interact with Jen being actual literal kick ass lawyers.

It was on at my Mom's the other night. I was like 'Hey... is that Viki?' but then guess what? Matt Walton (*sob* Eli!) was in it too!

But can we talk for a minute about Eleanor's magnificent party caftan? Because that shit was off the hook. It is a STATEMENT PIECE and I was in love with it immediately.

There's actual Rogers: The Musical merch and Lucky the Pizza Dog socks in the world. God bless us, every one!

I have no doubt in my mind that it was Luis because he would absolutely put Scott into the Battle of New York. Bucky and Sam would troll Steve, they wouldn't be doing a tell all anything to anyone. They both love the guy way too much to trust anyone else with his story or giving him all the shit. Sam, however, would sing 'I can do this all daaaaaay' at Bucky JUST to annoy the shit out of him while Bucky frantically looks to book a flight to Wakanda to get away from it.

Unstable molecules!! But yeah, Grills stole that shit flat out. Clint getting it back is clearly protecting his own damn self and I get that but now I'm beginning to wonder what the hell is with that suit that it makes people do flat out illegal things. All that being said, I really did get a kick out of the whole LARPing thing.

I thought they showed that very nicely with the quick montage of explosions and physical trauma that Clint has been around and through. So I think this was a good start. I loved the credits showing Kate's development in her various skills in Aja's style. That was a super nice touch for comic book fans. I also really liked how they showed the Battle of New York from a completely different perspective. That was great and you can absolutely understand why young Kate fixated on Hawkeye and the bow and arrow (to start with anyway.) "I can do this all daaaaaaaaay!" Rogers: The Musical is exactly what I hoped for. But I was not expecting the full on heartstring tug when Natasha dance-fought across the stage and the music and sound disappeared and Clint was just... looking at her. I really love that Natasha's place in Clint's life is remembered by everyone but mostly him. So that dude who asked for a selfie at the urinals was a tourist, right? New Yorkers are famous for not giving a shit about celebrities but... Broadway right before Christmas? That's totally an out of towner who does not follow proper protocol. I'm so far glad that Lucky/Pizza Dog is just a stray because his arrival into Clint's life in the Fraction book is a bit on the traumatizing side. Although it certainly did it's job painting the Tracksuit Mafia as assholes. Right now, they're just the average crime group. We will see where that goes. I mean... sure they did successfully storm the black market auction but from there? We will see, indeed.

As much as I wish that Kamala were a mutant, she's canonically not. She got stuck in the Terrigen cocoon and came out empowered with embiggen and such. I think I rather WOULD resent them changing that now but I also don't know exactly how they'll explain what an Inhuman is to those who aren't comic readers and didn't watch Agents of Shield. Maybe they'll just refer to her as 'enhanced' the way Wanda and Pietro were. If they ever decide to explain the Inhumans they can do that but there remains the question of what her powers are even going to be at this point, too.

I mean, I would prefer if they cut back on ALL of that.

They are!!

My sister finally got around to watching it last year and absolutely hated it. So she has no patience for it come October. We've got friends and family who love it and want to make it a tradition but she refuses. Which is fine. I like the movie but I don't need to make it an October tradition or anything and I'm certainly not going to force something she hates on her. I did come up with making Practical Magic an October tradition and that went over amazing so that's what we do. Neither of us like horror either so October is an iffy month for themed movie nights. She's just happy hockey is back so that's what's usually on anyway.

My brother in law was shocked SHOCKED I TELL YOU when I said I hated this movie. I watched it with him and my sister one year and then the next Christmas came around and this movie came up and I was like 'um, I'd rather not, no. It's not good.' SHOCKED! He was like "I don't understand how you, a person who loves stories, hates this movie!" I said "The stories are shit!!" It says a LOT that the only relationships I was remotely invested in where Bill Nighy and his manager, and Liam Neeson and his step-son. THAT'S IT! And gods above and below the constant body-shaming is unbelievable. So... yeah. Look, I have irrational love for problematic movies. I know this. I'm not going to get on anyone's case for loving this movie. But I will fight back when someone suggests I need to love a movie that I do not like at all.

The Buzz toy was based off of an epic sc-fi movie in universe. This is the movie the toy was based off of. That's how they described it on Disney Investors Day.

Civil War is not my favorite but the Marvel Creative Committee had to be put down and if this is what it took, so be it. Fiege wrestling control away from fucking Perlmutter was necessary and, frankly, Quesada and Bendis were marching to his tune with regards to storylines at the time.

Wow. I haven't thought about that song in YEARS. It's funny because I'm not sure I knew that was from Sesame Street although I certainly heard it all the time back in the 70s. Really, though, Sesame Street had songs that were way better than that, which, yes is rather treacly and banal. Give me 'C is for Cookie' or 'Rubber Ducky' or 'One of These Things' any day over 'Sing.' Or 'Mary Had a Bicycle' because that one's awesome.

"And so, the end is near and now I face the final curtain..." Well, this has indeed been a long strange trip. How many more musical references can I make that have nothing to do with country? I would say that the majority of the top ten make sense. They may not be to my personal preference but they make sense... number one does make sense even if I hate it with the tormented passion of 1000 lakes of fire. I get it, though. However... Jason Aldean and Eric Church? What?! Bruce Springsteen has songs that would fit on this list more than "Springsteen" fits into the top ten. (Seriously, 'Sad Eyes' would fit into this list better than some that made it. Or the entirety of 'Western Stars' and I don't say that just because of the name or the horse on the cover.) Hell, country artists have covered a lot of Springsteen songs, y'know? But they're not wrong in that it's weird that Church got in the top ten for a song about a full on legit ROCK legend. "El Paso" "King of the Road" "Folsom Prison Blues" "Crazy" -- yes to all of those. God, "Crazy" is just so good. The singing... the writing... fuck. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is one of those that some people just don't get. This, along with "The Chair," is a song my mother's friend never got. "He's DEAD, Susan! That's the point!" (It goes hand in hand with 'It was a pick up line, Susan!!') "I Will Always Love You" is a tricky one. I think the first time I really was exposed to it with any kind of understanding was in 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' and I feel that it perfectly encapsulated the bitter-sweetness of the song. Whitney's version is bombastic and it's powerful as fuck and I swing back and forth between which version I prefer if I'm being honest. All that being said... Dolly's top should be 'Coat of Many Colors.' That being said, I'm going to get salty about John Denver again. Remember that video 'Country Forever' with all the big big stars and they did a medley and CGI'd everyone into wheat fields and porches and downtown Nashville and virtual country roads? What was that medley made up of? "Take Me Home, Country Roads" "I Will Always Love You" and "On the Road Again." Two of those songs are represented on this list and the other one ISN'T. Salty forever.

I liked it too. I've been binging to catch up... basically, this is a show that I kept going 'I really need to check it out' and then after the Emmys I was like 'Why have I been putting this off?' So I dove in. This episode was surreal. It was Theatre of the Absurd. It felt oddly fitting after the Man City loss. Thierry Henry and Gary Lineker providing color commentary throughout also made me laugh. 'Shut up, Theirry Henry!!' And seeing them raise their glasses at the club at the end just put the finishing touch on the absurdity of it all.

I loved that bit. Tony and Thor bragging about their respective interests being awesome. And I always got a kick out of the deleted scene in the gag reel of Thor going 'Pepper smells like porridge.' Because it's just stupid and silly.

Well, he did call her a genius shortly after meeting her. And she got all flustered over it, which I found pretty spot on. Especially for a woman with several PhDs who was right about an alien invasion and got ignored by everyone.

I related hard to Frigga who put her husband down for a long nap, told her son to do his homework and then went for a wine weekend with her sister. I don't have a husband or a son... but I do have sisters and the wine weekend... yeah. That's more a daily thing, but still. This was obviously just a lark but after all of the murderdeath, I appreciated it. I loved the Carol vs Thor knock down drag out. I loved that Carol said no one knew what Stonehenge was for but it was seriously uncool to knock it over. I loved the shriek Thor let out when his hammer came back draped with beads, underwear and graffiti. Jotun!Loki was a hoot. I loved that Jane kind of let things get out of hand a little bit but was the one to get to Heimdall and Frigga when it became more than obvious that Thor wasn't going to slow down for anything less. It was a fun episode. Was Infinity!Vision/Ultron necessary? Not really. Would this universe result in 'Ultron, we would have words with thee?' Probably not. And it turns into a gigantic 'Exactly HOW did Ultron/Vision actually happen in this universe?' which is the kind of question I don't want to be asking after a super fun and silly episode.

No judgement from me, Kevin. I, too, would be speechless in the presence of Tony Leung. It's entirely possible I would dither a bit but I would TRY to maintain some dignity.