Jan. 1 2002
Fenris
fenris
I’m surprised to see so many people mirror your “weak characterization” comment. I felt she had the strongest character-building in all of AoU — I liked her and felt me empathetic with her here than in the previous films in which she appeared.
Washington Post had a great counter argument to this:
People keep bringing this up. I think the reveal of her sterilization had more to do with her relationship with Banner than it being the crowning moment in her backstory. And as others have repeated, the tragedy of her sterilization isn’t that she can’t have kids, it’s that she had that choice taken away.
Back around the mid-to-late 1980s I took part in a test of a halon-based fire suppression system, back when halon was still used in such things. It was an interesting experience. Because halon is heavier than air, all our voices were lower. And because it displaces much of the oxygen, sudden movements made us light…
To quote rocket propellant chemist John D Clark, from his very informative and funny (but hard to find!) book Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants:
Dominic, Dominic, Dominic...”Old age and treachery will always defeat youth and skill.” You really should have asked Elias to mentor you instead of going up against him.
No lie, I leaped from my seat with a combination of squeal and cheer at that moment.
Holy. Shit. I said I was going to save my Cool_Breeze style review for the finale, but fuck that noise. The more I think about it, the more I realize there was actually quite a lot I didn’t like about this episode. But holy shit the crazyness makes up for it, full stop. And we’re splitting this up because both…
“Not a peep.”
Nah, with the whole "vibration thing," she's more like Toph Beifong. It would be great if part of her training consisted of watching episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
100% agree with you re: Brett Dalton’s Ward. It’s an amazing performance of a tricky, unpredictable, charismatic, homicidal character - and to think that just over a year ago I thought he was a boring slab o’ beef.
Including Theta Protocol, which is still a secret, but is apparently something that Maria Hill gets to know about
Not only the stuntwork, the camera work was equally amazing. Made me feel like I was in the room, dodging...well, dodging pretty much everything.
That moving gunfight around the room between Skye and the Hydra agents was a thing of beauty. It was claustrophobic, it was exciting, and it was my favorite action sequence from this series so far. It really felt like something that belonged on the big screen, not on a TV show.
My only gripe: Raina got to see Age of Ultron before us.
That whole scene was great. “I’m so glad I shot you.” “You should’ve aimed for the face”
“Mistakes were made.”
There are a great many reasons; to start with, pound for pound, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and their derivatives are the most heavily armed warships ever built. There are ships that carry more weapons per se, but they are much larger ships, like the Kirovs. Secondly, a ship also needs to be able to accommodate…