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4 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
coupled with the points Wanda brings up about how other characters were hypocritically rewarded for messing with the universe
That was pretty nonsensical. Wanda is trying to kill innocent people to make herself feel better. That's nothing like any of the supposed comparables she brings up.
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1 hour ago, Zonk said:
Deviations from the predestined path created those universes. Until those decisions those universes didn't exist.
There's a whole universe where Loki is an alligator. Sylvie's universe was already radically different before the TVA decided to prune her based on her decision to become heroic. And so on.
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1 hour ago, Zonk said:
There is no indication of what you are saying in the show. Instead it was spelled out multiple times that the TVA prunes all deviations and that there is only one timeline. You are just making stuff up by saying it was a multiverse.
They pruned deviations from the script.
Hence why there were a bunch of different Lokis and they got pruned when they did things that took them off the path of 616-Loki, whether that be Sylvie being too heroic or Kid Loki being too successful as a villain by killing Thor. The issue was not that their universes existed, else they would have been destroyed long before. It was about their choices, which is a key theme of the whole show.
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1 hour ago, Zonk said:
I advise you to watch Loki again.
Kang the ConquerorHe who Remains decided to destroy all other universes because otherwise they would inevitably go to war with each other. It was not about them being too different. It's just that divergences create new universes.There was exactly one sacred timeline/universe. I don't get how there could be any misunderstand about that.
No, there wasn’t. The “Sacred Timeline” was a multiverse carefully managed to avoid the creation of rival Kangs. The show’s presentation of this was somewhat confusing linguistically, but there were always multiple universes; that’s why the various pruned Lokis had all done something that strayed too far from their prescribed path.
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6 hours ago, dmeets said:
I don’t think I can even get into the Wanda BS. Total character annihilation so that Raimi could get his horror movie.
Marvel directors are all basically hired guns, and Raimi wasn’t even the first director on this film. All the larger character trajectories, etc. would have come from Feige and co.
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1 hour ago, Zonk said:
The TVA always purged all other universes. There was only one universe. That was the whole point of the TVA.
No, there were always many universes, they just weren't allowed to depart too much from certain prescribed characteristics (i.e., things that would lead to the emergence of other versions of Nathaniel Richards). Hence why, e.g., Sylvie's universe gets pruned when she shows heroic traits.
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On 5/3/2022 at 11:06 PM, Zonk said:
Which is weird, since I'm pretty sure the whole Wandavision show happened before the universe split into a multiverse, because he who remains and the TVA purged all other universes. For that matter, America shouldn't have been able to send her parents into other universes, because there were no other universes. Oh well, wibbely wobbely timey wimey, I guess.
The TVA never purged all other universes, just ones that diverted too much from allowed specifications; but in any case, once Immortus was dead the effects were retroactive.
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I saw Stars on Ice Canada last week, at its start in Halifax. I traveled there because Satoko is on the tour, and who knows how many opportunities there'll be to see her live.
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Looking at the length of champions’ streaks as well as dollar figures, it really highlights how James was basically playing a completely different game from everybody else. He pretty much perfected how to wring the most money out of any single game and operated on that level for an exceptional amount of time.
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5 hours ago, Josiemae said:
Because, IMO, it should be about the game. Not about how special and cute you think you are.
She’s not acting like she’s “special and cute”, she’s just being herself. She has some very common mannerisms.
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Mattea's fun. I don't know why people object to the players having some individuality.
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24 minutes ago, Raja said:
Colonel Rhodes is, but he was not chosen as worthy.
Because it’s screenwriter-fiat arbitrary and always has been. Is Thor really more heroic than any of the other Avengers?
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Greta Gerwig's quasi-autobiographical Lady Bird was a smashingly successful directorial debut, which she followed up with the innovative, moving adaptation of Little Women. Next up: a Mattel toy adaptation? With a screenplay she co-wrote with, of all people, her partner Noah Baumbach?
Starring Margot Robbie in the titular role and Ryan Gosling as Ken, with a massive supporting cast that includes America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, Issa Rae, Emerald Fennell, Will Ferrell, and noted Robbie lookalike Emma Mackey.
Nobody has much of an idea of what to expect from this one, but with that creative team, it will surely be interesting. And, from the first photo, colourful!
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3 hours ago, Danny Franks said:
Alright, if we're going to play the semantics game, what makes Jane worthy?
Is she not selfless and heroic?
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On 4/20/2022 at 4:37 PM, Danny Franks said:
I'm intrigued to see how they're going to make Jane worthy of Mjolnir, considering the massive deal it was that Steve could lift it, and the fact that Jane is... really not that interesting or special in the first two movies.
You don’t have to be “interesting or special” to be worthy.
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On 4/24/2022 at 6:49 PM, Maisiesmom said:
At the end, did the prince go to Valhalla?
Amleth thought so, per when he saw their burial site.
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The most obvious stylistic feature of Robert Eggers' first two films was an approach to period storytelling that emphasized linguistic authenticity to a degree scarcely ever attempted when attempting to depict the past. Whether his characters are 17th century Puritan settlers in rural New England or two borderline-insane lighthouse keepers stuck together on an island in the late 19th century, Eggers and his actors demonstrated a commitment to antique English seldom seen outside of Shakespeare adaptations. The Northman, his 10th century Viking epic, brings into focus that Eggers' period films are united even moreso by their commitment to the belief systems of the characters. This is a film about Vikings that doesn't attempt at any point to romanticize the cultural practices and economic systems of their world, or give the audience an easy point of character identification in the form of a modern-thinking lead. The director has talked in interviews about these belief systems bringing the capacity for the "sublime" for his characters, and it's easy to see how a folklore enthusiast would make this a calling card of his filmmaking.
Purely from a financial perspective I think giving Eggers $65 million to make a film (which ballooned to $90 due to pandemic-related overruns) was always a bad idea, because the modern theatrical environment will be hard-pressed to support a film at this scale that doesn't follow the MCU blockbuster formula, but artistically it's a great success.
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5 hours ago, ChicksDigScars said:
The top six in the Junior ladies were all US and South Korea. Surprising that Japan came in 8th and 10th.
Japan's junior women have been struggling all quadrennial. The hopes are all on Mao Shimada to turn things around when she becomes age-eligible next year.
Seeing Levito skate after Shin, the other Korean girls, and Thorngren just highlighted how bad her jump technique is. She shouldn't have won, on that basis alone.
I still recall being dazzled by the Browns' JGP debut back in 2018, with that awesome blues free program that ended up having to get changed because it didn't have a change of rhythm and was never as good again. They've had an up-and-down quad (including their original coach turning out to be a sex offender), so I was happy for them to get a big win here. And very glad for the Canadian teams, especially Nadiia, who is from Ukraine originally and had to junk their original free dance for this season because it was a musical homage to the Russian Army, something that she obviously lost all taste for in recent weeks.
Too bad that Wesley couldn't hold his podium position after the short program, but he should take this as valuable experience for the home Junior Worlds next season.
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2 hours ago, ursula said:
Rue's story is wrapped up.
No? It reached a seasonal endpoint, teasing future developments. The whole show is about Rue, she's going to be in the next season. That isn't even in question.
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On 4/12/2022 at 8:24 PM, ursula said:
Just checked IMDB and she only has Dune part 2. Maybe Euphoria 3 next year but it's not even certain she'll be in it, and Jacob has no future projects. Fingers crossed that Disney/Sony make this happen.
Why would she not be in Euphoria's third season? That whole show is about her.
She has more stuff going on than just Dune; among other things, she's developing a biopic of Ronnie Spector.
Zendaya strikes me as being one of those actors who isn't really interested in anything outside of the main film series (see also, Lupita Nyong'o, conspicuously absent in scenes in Wakanda since Black Panther).
On 4/14/2022 at 2:21 AM, Danny Franks said:I mean, Verhoeven is right to say the Marvel movies are sexless (not so sure about Bond. The last one I watched had him having sex with a woman young enough to be his daughter) but... what would be improved by putting sex in them?
I would say that sex and romance more generally are a big part of many of the comics that the movies are based on and that the characters as a whole would be richer if those elements were included.
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7 hours ago, ursula said:
Did anyone else hear the rumour that the MCU will be making a TV show about MJ and Ned's time in MIT?
I hadn’t heard that version of it. It was more commonly speculated that one or both might appear in Ironheart.
The latter is much more plausible to me; moreso for Ned than MJ, given that Zendaya is one of the most in-demand people in Hollywood right now.
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On 4/1/2022 at 4:39 PM, benteen said:
LOL. Mickey Rourke's character had depth?
All the stuff that was supposed to flesh out the character got cut from the final film. Rourke was publicly very peeved about this at the time.
20 hours ago, Raja said:I believe that Ike Perlmutter was a Marvel guy when Disney acquired it. So why would he care if other Disney divisions had the "Princess" market on lock already? The policies which he was made the bad guy about was probably on a higher "powers that be" level. And they stuck the sword into him as the social revolution gained strength.
Everything has indicated that it was Perlmutter. Hence why everything changed once Feige succeeded in boxing him out.
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On 3/28/2022 at 12:17 PM, Yogisbooboo64 said:
Natalie Wood was the better Maria, especially her “DON’T YOU TOUCH HIM!” when the Jets/Sharks tried to go to Tony’s body. Rachel Zegler was pretty but lacked Maria’s passion.
Wood is so obviously inauthentic casting (and doesn’t do her own singing) that I really can’t consider her the better Maria.
But good news for anyone wanting to hear Zegler since “Somewhere”, as she did so at the Grammys.
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29 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:
Yeah, they really shouldn't have been surprised.
Frankly, in a scenario like this where a distant cousin inherits a title, it would have been common, if not expected, that he would give one of the daughters consideration as a bride if he wasn't already married.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
in Movies
When Strange was killed by Thanos in the Blip, Wong took over, and remained in charge after Strange came back to life.