Even better: Australian. (But yeah, I didn't know she and Malcolm weren't American before looking it up, but I could definitely hear it come through occasionally in their vowels.)

Unpopular opinion alert: I saw both The Master and Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm, and thought they looked better on digital. Much of this is likely due to the fact that I feel like my 70mm theater does a crappy job of maintaining their 70mm projector.

AFI Silver

Pretty good, tense episode. It was never really up in the air how any of it would go down, but it was still well done.

Like Bauer, though, he's also kicked a heroin addiction over the course of the season. It was just never on-screen.

After the twist-that-everyone-saw-coming of Star Trek Into Darkness and Spectre, I can see them not wanting to make the same mistake here, since everyone already figured out the Zod-Doomsday reveal.

You wouldn't wanna fight THIS guy! Bazinga!

I guess the fact that the Khan-reveal was so irrelevant was why it never really bothered me. But here's how it should've gone: John Harrison is just some other guy from Khan's ship, not Khan himself. So you still get pretty much every aspect of the character aside from the name, which was meaningless. Then in some…

Yeah I've been saying that since the last trailer. It's one of those "it's so dumb it HAS to be true" kinda things.

At least this episode had some forward momentum and moved all the characters in place for an actual conflict. But I can't get over how low-stakes this whole season is. In previous seasons there was some big villain or attack or whatever, but this season it's just a fairly high-ranking mole whose threat can only be…

I literally said out loud "Yes. We remember. This happened 20 minutes ago."

But didn't you see that scene where Allison was looking at expensive purses online? Her motivation to run away with the $8 mil is "Women Be Shoppin"!

I'm hoping for a scene with Matt, Trish, and Malcolm all hanging out, talking in their barely-passable American accents.

Crazy idea I thought of during this episode: what if Trish becomes Iron Fist? She's already got the martial arts training, and with Malcolm sticking around as the un-powered friend, she could make that transition to her own show.

I'm generally in favor of the idea of reviving musicals on TV, but, like, live TV for things that aren't sports are kind of pointless. So what if instead of making it live, they concentrated on making it good?

Eh.

Yeah, that bit really struck home with me, as I'm a long-lapsed Catholic, but when I have to go back for the occasional wedding/funeral, I'm like "the fuck is this new shit?"

So where's the problem?

*MLA leaves house, takes bus to Guitar Center, buys microphone, takes bus back, reenters house, drops mic on floor, leaves again*

Only read a few more chapters of Ready Player One (see: Jessica Jones), but the establishment of an actual real-world conflict and villain made it more interesting and something more than just reenacting 80s pop-culture.