What’s even more interesting is that he lost his shit AFTER going through his noble sacrifice/heroes’ journey. So, after he saw the Ancient One fall, and after Mordo went rogue, and after Kaecilius and Dormmamu.

But it’s a trope that already exists within the MCU/Strange’s universe. They don’t call the Ancient One’s death an Absolute Point, but it’s explicitly treated as such.

Be honest:  does Henry Golding look Chinese to you?

Last week when Roy started running to get to the stadium, all I could think was, “My god is that an awkward looking run for a guy who was supposedly an all-world talent.”

Of course on a technical note everything else aside, the Championship has a long season and as a newly-relegated club, Richmond would have more money than basically anybody else so the playoffs would still be a totally reasonable goal if they got on a run.

Tbf, it wasn’t even turning on a dime. She didn’t know the Timekeepers were fake, her entire plan was to get through the door so she could kill them, which itself wasn’t any more developed than Loki’s plan to kill Alioth.

Yeah, that’s fair. There’s a tension between Mobius not really needing to be a significant character/Loki not needing to have a primary relationship and, well, the Owen Wilson of it all.

Loki’s arc requires that you just sort go with it, because textually it’s treated like New York Loki became Revenger Loki just by watching the clip reel in the TVA. It’s shorthand that makes less sense in terms of narrative linearity the more you think about it.

FWIW, Loki survived the Thanos encounter the exact same way that Gamora did.

So, in theory, if everything had happened correctly to Alligator Loki, and he failed to take over Alligator New York and eventually got killed by Alligator Thanos when he tried to assemble the Alligator Infinity Gauntlet, that would’ve been the Sacred Timeline version of Loki.

My preferred version is that it’s simply two variants of the same root deciding that they have an equal right to exist, which on its own is incompatible with a singular timeline. But they’re sure not steering away from the romantic implications, which I’d frankly be a lot more OK with if the MCU had better LGBTQ+…

FWIW, I think it works better as non-romantic? By all means, let Lokis get as weird as they want/can consent to be, but a weird thing about the narrowness of the MCU focus is that unless any of these main characters are shown to have friends, they maybe don’t. So it’s wholly plausible that Sylvie’s genuinely the first…

see his cameos in literally every cameo he’s ever done? Give me Miley hosting as Hannah Montana with Grimes as musical guest any day--I still wouldn’t watch, but I wouldn’t manage to feel smug about it either.

What’s weirder is that Sam didn’t just make a speech--he more or less conveyed a terroristic threat as a moral imperative! Now I can understand why the GRC would appear to find that reasonable (having collectively nearly been killed by such people), but the message that equity is both the right thing to do and also he…

The Karli/Sam scene is just so puzzling because what possibly suggests that he’s wearing a high-tech suit that isn’t bulletproof? Sam as the Falcon gets shot at pretty constantly! The greater tension is that he’s only nigh invulnerable in the suit and every bit the same symbol outside of it. Karli won’t be the first…

Re: Isaiah, he was as much concerned about being identified as alive as anything else. Presumably the exhibit being opened without his knowledge/involvement and him being led in as an unofficial visitor suggests that it mains the official narrative that he died in prison.

It’s corny, but I’m not sure how it could be better expressed. Certainly better than appealing to the moral authority conveyed by Cap Steve handing down the shield, at any rate?

As somebody who spent their middle school years living in a house where enough of the plumbing had been DIYed that the cesspool’s location wasn’t recorded, please convey my sympathies to your sister.

I think it’d be less potentially problematic for the case just to contain some heart-shaped herb. One take I saw on Twitter that I haven’t looked for fully fleshed out is the uneasy optics of Sam’s training montage vs. the common police narrative that Black bodies are inherently superhuman that requires lethal force…

Well, it’s also not the same serum. It’s possible that Nagel’s formula doesn’t alter the personality any more than it alters the physical appearance.