Getting a strong vibe of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman off this, but that’s not a bad thing at all.
I was never into these movies, but decided I would watch them all before the new one came out, and man, this must be what watching Marvel movies is like for people who just aren’t into them. I watched the first two a few months ago, and decided to watch MI3 yesterday and realized I couldn’t remember anything from the…
I really think Tom Cruise is hoping for an eventual “glorious” death making one of these movies. He knows how evil Scientology is and might be horrified to know his legacy will be tied to it. If he dies doing an insane stunt (doing it “for the audience” like he always says), maybe he’ll be remembered as a man…
What’s funny is that’s where the first movie ended. Hunt had taken over as the guy who got the mission assignments.
Just like they did with Jim Phelps.
If this is the case, at some point Cruise would be better served pivoting Ethan Hunt to a mentorship type role and have him provide guidance/support to his team.
I don’t know about that. I think it would have to be several seasons. Most of the references they make are references to other characters and not the characters themselves. And many issues focus on other fantastic fiction of the 20th century outside of comics.
Complete missed opportunity not having Pelia come and pick up the watch in La’an’s quarters at the end. “I’ll take that back now if you please”
They’re quite possibly setting up that La’an is the very reason Khan ends up...well...Khan. He has been left with a gun. He just witnessed a visit from someone who refused to help him escape from his childhood prison. He also just witnessed advanced technology. Much like Scotty shared the tech that results in…
Nope, absolutely my thought as well — she needed to let La’an know, basically as soon as she met her, that she had a place in Vermont, in order to make sure that the temporal loop was closed properly.
I took her mentioning her bunker in Vermont as a hint she’d need in the past/future to find her, but that’s just my head canon.
One thing I love about this show is that when a character only has very tiny scenes in an episode, they consistently manage to mine it for all its worth.
Yeah, I immediately thought back to SG-1's 1969 where Hammond pretty much fixes all the plot holes it raises with the “I’ve been waiting a long time to talk about this. And with interest....”
M’Benga’s scenes with his daughter (young and older) at the end of Elysian Kingdom is some of my favorite acting on the show.
When La’an walked onto the bridge at the end wearing the motorcycle jacket and Pelia was there, I thought for sure it was going to be a Days of Future Past moment when Pelia was like - hey! you just go back!
This episode was so much better than it had any right to be. When I saw that it was a time travel episode and an episode that featured Kirk it felt like they were reaching for stunt plots that are normally reserved for the end of a show’s run when they need to goose ratings and don’t have anything left in the bag.
The Romulan agent lampshading this was pretty hilarious. “Goddammit, I thought I took care of this 30 fucking years ago but nooooo, the timeline just keeps kicking the can down the road!”
It’s a clever way to retcon it too by saying “the timeline has always been in flux because people keep going back in time to change it.”
The Romulan chick said something to the effect of “All this Kahn stuff was supposed to start in 1992, but factions in the temporal wars had changed stuff.”
So it’s not a retconn in as much as it is a clue that there are outside forces mucking with the timelines.