Oh shit, if James Marsters had shown up as Spike I would have lost my goddamned mind.

Matt Berry had about a half-dozen candidates for Line of the Episode. My favorite was, “She speaks the bullshit!”

The faceoff between Colin and the Emotional Vampire is the series high point, and that’s factoring in the Baron’s super-projectile-vomit flight through the parking lot (which I could not watch without nearly asphyxiating from laughter).

It’s defanged a bit in highlight packages and reruns because they couldn’t use the Van Halen song they originally had as the backing music.

Maybe. Again, this thread is making me think about this movie way harder than I should be - one of the reasons why I try to stay away from comment threads when it comes to this particular niche of entertainment. I should have learned my lesson back in the 70s when people were debating about the legitimacy of Star…

“Remy, I have come to bargain!”

Amateurs.

Come on - having Tony pull up in the Delorean would have been AMAZING. Bonus points if Doc Brown were there to look at the giant time apparatus the Avengers built and showed them the flux capacitor like, “Are you guys kidding?”

Nope, it’s the first van. Probably parked out in a lot somewhere that DIDN’T get blown the hell up by Thanos’ missile barrage.

Second van? I’m not sure what you mean. There was just the one van, and Scott drove it to the Avengers’ HQ. Now, its survival is a bit amazing after the attack, I’ll grant you that.

Well, if you’ve ever studied military history, you’d be surprised at how easily major battles - indeed, the very outcomes of a war itself - can turn on sheer luck.

I mean, agree to disagree, but I do take issue with one thing - the rat was not the solution to The Snap. It was a catalyst for the solution. Scott Lang coming out of the Quantum Realm put a whole range of events into motion, any one of which, had it gone wrong, would have derailed everything.

God, I’m going to think about this way harder than I ever expected or wanted to, but here goes:

You’re doing blessed work, my friend.

I’m glad there are people in the world who work so hard at trying to make these movies feel plausible. Seriously, I am - because plausibility makes the character work in the movies resonate more deeply.

The way I think about it is that Stephen Strange saw, what, 14 million possible futures playing out and only one of them panned out for the heroes.

Except, is it? When Nat and Clint go back in time to get the Soul Stone, don’t they do it before Thanos has a chance to kill Gamora to get it? So if Gamora is perma-dead it’s in another alternate timeline and OH MY GOD TIME TRAVEL SUCKS AS A NARRATIVE DEVICE

I dunno. I think there was a little respect shown, if for no other reason than they showed her heroically dead and totally still intact on the dais, rather than the rubber-skinsuit-surrounded-by-unidentifiable-clumps-of-bloody-viscera horror that normally would have resulted from a fall from that height.

Don’t feel too bad. When Star Wars came out in the theaters in 1977, I asked my parents if I could stay home and watch a Star Trek rerun instead.

Well, I know from her previous roles that she is certainly not as stifled as she appeared in Captain Marvel - but she does have “tics” to her style that didn’t seem to fit what I had imagined for Carol Danvers and Captain Marvel as a character. Particularly late in the movie, when she’s supposed to be ecstatic and…