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    Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

    in Movies

    10 hours ago, Morrigan2575 said:

    Just watched on TV and had a thought, did the spell erase everyone knowing that every Peter Parker is Spider-Man? Like did MJ forget that Toby's Peter is Spider-Man?

    No, it only applies in the MCU main timeline.

    Priscilla

    in Movies

    A year after Baz Luhrmann supplied his hyper-kinetic take on the King, stylistic polar opposite Sofia Coppola brings us a different take on the problematic relationship of Priscilla and Elvis from the former's perspective.

    S04.E10: ...said goodbye

    in Never Have I Ever

    On 6/12/2023 at 12:33 PM, shapeshifter said:

    However, given the show's reminder of why Devi was set on Princeton in the first place (because as a little girl she wanted to go to "Princess College") there is no reason to think it's the best place for her (in contrast to Fabiola's decision-making process and her ultimate choice). 
    But Fabiola's true love and mastery of a discipline like robotics is more the exception than the rule with regards to US students, who typically change their college majors more than once.

    Maybe Devi will be able to transfer to UCLA or Stanford her sophomore year, but those top-tier schools would have been easier for her to get into straight from high school. So maybe Devi will transfer to another UC school. 

    Princeton is consistently one of the top-ranked schools in the country, there's no real reason it wouldn't be the right place for her to go.

    It sounded like her ultimate ambition is to be a lawyer (er, Supreme Court justice), in which case her undergrad is (outside some specialty tracks like IP law) mostly just launchpad for whatever law school she applies to.

    On 6/15/2023 at 1:29 AM, Dani said:

    Everything with Ethan and Margot ended up being mostly irrelevant and took up way too much screen time.

    Ethan wasn't important in and of himself, but he played a notable role in Devi's storyline, e.g., her sexual maturation (which also, keeping in mind that the season is bookended by her relationship with Ben, avoids having her only have sex with one person).

    Margo also might end up being Devi's step-sister in the future, for all we know.

    Strong finale and a strong final season. This is one of the most complete shows Netflix has ever had, in my opinion.

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    S04.E06: ...had my dream stolen

    in Never Have I Ever

    I loved seeing Pete Gardner, albeit in a small role.

    Not that this really matters, but there's never any plot explanation why Devi is convinced that someone at the school must have gotten into Princeton if she didn't. While the earlier scene with Fabiola and her mom establishes their belief that it's statistically unlikely that two students from the school would get in (which is true enough), that's not a rule; and for that matter, there'd be plenty of US high schools with zero Princeton admissions per year.

    Jeopardy! Season 39 (2022-2023)

    in Jeopardy!

    If they were going require greater specificity on “Adams”, they shouldn’t have accepted “Harrison” as a one-word answer in the same category.

    I got Final after thinking about it for a moment — it doesn’t seem like any of the contestants approached the question from the perspective of trying to narrow down blockbuster films of that year, though.

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    Hive Mind: Speculation

    in Yellowjackets

    A brief tally of the noteworthy narrative drivers/plot points in play for Season 3 and beyond.

    1997

    • The search for new shelter for the group;
    • Conflict with Coach Ben;
    • The identity of Javi's "friend";
    • Per the S2 finale, at some point one of the characters will refuse to participate in the draw;
    • Shauna's resentment of not being the leader.

    2021/?

    • Dark Tai and everything relating to her actions, including Tai's chaotic family situation;
    • Van's having cancer;
    • Walter isn't per se a plotline, but as a man of considerable means and dubious morals, he seems like somebody who could cause problems for the group going ahead;
    • Theoretically there could be more to the whole coverup of all the previous murders, but I personally think that's unlikely.
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    S05.E09: Four Minutes

    in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    8 hours ago, bourbon said:

    I had a hunch all along that the framing device of this season would be Midge looking back on her successful career. I just hoped she would be surrounded by children and grandchildren and not walking through her cold and empty palatial apartment in the Dakota. I guess we all define happiness in our own way. I just wish the ending didn't seem like a stern warning...Be careful what you wish for, ladies, you'll end up sad and alone and watching Jeopardy on VHS. Ambition isn't a crime. Maybe you can't have it all. But can't you have more than *that*? 

    I didn't hate it. If they were aiming for a downbeat, bittersweet ending, they got it. But I will look at the whole thing through a different lens now.

    Is she sad at the end? She seems pretty content watching TV with her closest friend.

    While we were shown that Midge has tensions with both her kids, they'd both be 50ish by the time depicted, and her one grandchild that we know of would be college-aged. Regardless of her relationship with them, they wouldn't be hanging around her house every day.

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    The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.

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    On 5/24/2023 at 11:16 PM, Cobalt Stargazer said:

    Perhaps, but this feels like an entirely different conversation. Right after Infinity War happened, someone posted that 'the award for the worst way to find out your dad loves you goes to Gamora', and I don't think that's unfair. Thanos also told Nebula that he didn't even think she was worth the effort to kill, so does that mean that if he loved her he'd have killed her too? Yes, in real life abusers say 'I love you' all the time, but conventional wisdom is that we should reject that, not accept it as truth. There's some argument in there (maybe) that Red Skull was deceived, that because Thanos believed he truly loved Gamora, her death sealed the deal as far as him getting what he wanted. Let's be honest, in life Johann Schmidt was only a reliable narrator in the sense that he was a Nazi lunatic who got even crazier when he started his quest to possess the Tesseract. Who knows what he thought love entailed. And I don't believe the Stones themselves were ever considered to be sentient, not in the way we think of it.

    I know, I know, I'm wildly theorizing. Leave me be, it's been a long week today. 🙂

    Thanos "loves" Gamora insofar as he feels an emotional attachment to her and is sad at her death. That's all that the Soul Stone cares about. It's not framed as evidence that he's a good person or whatever, it's just a measure of his willingness to give up something that matters to him personally.

    If you're defining love as a healthy relationship, arguably it's impossible to ever meet the test's criteria since being willing to kill the person in question for your own advancement inherently a negative.

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    S02.E09: Storytelling

    in Yellowjackets

    6 hours ago, Black Knight said:

    LOL at Shauna's journal where she was whining about feeling invisible. I wonder if she'll ever realize that if she feels invisible, it's her own doing - not Jackie's or Natalie's or Lottie's or whoever. She didn't have to live in Jackie's shadow. She could've made a case for herself to be leader.

    The next sentence in her journal, that she always previously thought it was Jackie who made her feel invisible, seemed like the beginning of self-reflection.

    But in Shauna's defense, it wasn't really a leadership election, the group's prophet came down and bestowed leadership on one particular person.

    3 hours ago, benteen said:

    So what's ahead for the present day scenes? It seemed this show was ready to go full Lost (problematic) by adding a supernatural element. I think the show put that to rest last night. There is no supernatural element.

    I would say Van's cancer is going to be a major question mark going forward as far as the supernatural element goes.

    2 hours ago, Avaleigh said:

    This is another thing, how is state senator Taissa being missing, after her wife was in a very serious car crash where Tai was driving, not a news story at this point? 

    Senator-elect, I believe. I would guess that most people don't know she's missing; her campaign manager presumably didn't raise the issue, who else would?

     

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    S05.E08: The Princess and the Plea

    in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    On 5/19/2023 at 8:14 AM, debraran said:

    Why does Gordon owe Hedy? Don't they both get something out of the marriage and she is the one hiding a bit behind him? I do hope the emergency isn't anything big and she does get a shot. Seems like this is it but still have Susie fallout.

    Absent further explanation I think she was referring to landing him the big Princess Margaret guest spot.

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    Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

    in Movies

    On 5/18/2023 at 5:14 PM, AimingforYoko said:

    If this is how Scorsese hangs it up, it's interesting that it's not(but kind of is) a mob movie. 

    He already has other films in the works, including another Grann adaptation. I wouldn't expect this to be his last outing.

    The book is one of the best pieces of non-fiction I've read in the last decade, so I've been looking forward to this film for a long time.

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    S02.E08: It Chooses

    in Yellowjackets

    9 hours ago, Lila82 said:

    The writers said they intentionally featured Shauna's domestic life more heavily because they like Warren Cole and Sarah Desjardins so much, and it was a mistake. We lost precious screen time that should have been devoted to showing what was happening in the wilderness.

    (Adult) Shauna needs screentime; if that particular stuff wasn't being shown, she'd be shown doing something else.

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    I loathe the tell, not show approach to storytelling, because it makes me fill in the pieces, which makes me speculate on the characters' motivations when it should be the actual writers telling us who and what their characters are.

    We've been shown plenty over the course of this season. The gnawing affect of hunger has been a constant theme for the past seven episodes, and we even that things like the multi-episode twist with Akilah's mouse that shows just how much it's been warping the characters.

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    S02.E07: Burial

    in Yellowjackets

    8 hours ago, the eskimo said:

    I also have a hard time connecting young Shauna with adult Shauna, when all the rest seem pretty spot on. Melanie has that high-pitched, cutesy way of talking, while young Shauna seems sort of blunt and "rougher." I'm hoping this is all somehow intentional, but I'm not sure how or why. 

    While Nelisse and Lynskey's mannerisms are different in some ways, one should note that tonally they're also dealing with some fairly different material. Lynskey's scenes are often written as suburban dark comedy, whereas Nelisse is often (and especially this season) playing the angstiest, grimmest part of the show.

    7 hours ago, snarts said:

    Said I was done, but binged & caught up this weekend. Kinda regret it, but...

    Acting is off a bit for many of them this season, including the incredible Melanie Lynskey and Juliette Lewis. I think it's because the writers haven't shared (don't have) the full story outline. The actresses are flying a bit blind on their characters and where they are headed with them. 

    Actors don't generally need to know where their characters are headed as a result of things that haven't happened yet. Indeed, it's quite rare to get that on TV.

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    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

    in Movies

    8 hours ago, PurpleTentacle said:

    Because Cosmo in the comics is a male dog, specifically to make clear that he's not Laika, even though he was of course inspired by her.

    But here they changed it to a female dog, to reference Laika, but didn't go all the way. That's just a weird half measure.

    There’s nothing weird about it. Gunn probably liked the idea of adding another female character to the cast, among other things, while keeping the actual character name. Cosmo is the character. The movies make adaptational alterations to characters’ race, gender, etc. all the time.

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