Nobody goes into show business for the money; if they did they’d never survive the “paying dues” stage, which may or may not ever end, depending on a lot of factors outside of your control. If your only goal was to make money, you’d become an investment banker.

But he’s not committing crimes, nor ordering others to commit crimes for him, nor in any way aiding or abetting crimes. Telling the Mafia to get the fuck out of Harlem doesn’t make him a crime boss.

See, I don’t get this. Did I completely misunderstand the ending? From what I could tell, Luke made a deal with the Mafia that if they didn’t operate in Harlem, he wouldn’t hassle their operations outside of Harlem. Then Mariah left him the club and he decided to use it to keep an eye on the criminals who liked to…

I personally think they’re the worst movies ever made, and focus too much on a childish notion of “fun”. For a truly mature cinematic experience I like to watch Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Primer simultaneously to keep my brain challenged.

You’d really not like Go Set a Watchman.

When she hands Luke the lightsaber, she’s asking him to use violence to solve the galaxy’s problems. That’s why he throws it away: he knows that way doesn’t work. When he says “I can’t be what she wants me to be”, he doesn’t mean “her teacher”, he means “a killer again”. When Yoda was chastising Luke for not passing…

• Thanos promised Loki that if Loki gave him the Tesseract he’d let Thor live
  

Other things I appreciated:

I liked the duress thing. As soon as they kidnapped Piranha to force him to sell everything, I was like “IRL that sale would never be treated as legitimate; the guy has been publicly kidnapped and is clearly under duress”. I loved when Donovan showed up an episode or two later and is like “yeah that sale didn’t hold…

Where was Donald Faison? How did I miss him?

And she still is, as far as we know. An evil hairdo does not a villain make. She poisoned her mother because we all know she hated her guts and wanted the chaos to end (Mariah was still murdering people from jail), and she helped Bushmaster because she felt guilty for what her family did to his.

Why wouldn’t Luke take the club? It’s not like it’s got a voodoo curse on it (that we know of). There’s absolutely no reason he can’t run it as a legitimate business, and additionally by taking it, he ensures that nobody else does. If it went up for auction, Rosalie Carbone or somebody else like her would’ve snapped…

I’m reminded of Garth Marenghi: “at this point in the series all our episodes were running about 10 minutes under, so any shot that didn’t feature dialogue was considered for slo-mo”

According to the comics, including the old 70s-80s run, Cage is in fact as naturally stoic as Colter: the “pissed off black man from da hood” is a persona he uses when he deems it useful, like a comfy old raincoat you put on when it rains and take off when it shines. He uses a version of it to white strangers as it…

Is there a reason people aren’t making a bigger deal out of the fact that Egghead is in the AM&TW cast list? Everyone seems to be glossing over it and talking about how many Os are in Gooobler.

He decided that lightsabers were not the way to peace and he swore them off. He decided that the Jedi Order and its implied belief that it was the rightful custodian of the Force was sheer hubris and that the Galaxy would be fine without it.

When TNG first aired, Patrick Stewart was younger than RDJ is now. Baldness made him look older than he was but as soon as you saw one of his shirtless scenes you knew he was in his prime.

The list of secret shows DOES include an animated one...

Obviously it can be easily written around. AoU introduced him back in the suit with literally no explanation at all. But TBH at that point the fridge logic isn’t “why didn’t Tony suit up to help in TWS”, it’s “why DID he suit up in AoU”. He retired for a reason: he was mentally incapable of relaxing once he decided he…

Did the writer in you factor in the ending of Iron Man 3, in which Tony destroys all his suits and retires from superheroing (until the revelation that Hydra nearly conquered the world and is still at large with Loki’s staff brings him out of retirement)?