I don’t think it would’ve been any more jarring for me than seeing Yoda in TFA, and Yoda didn’t jar me. It was like ‘wow’ but it made sense, just as Guinness would’ve.

Due to the nature of his/her code name, I’m neither able nor at liberty to say more than I already have.

It’s only in the limited-edition Star Wars pack that Crayola released earlier this month, which also includes the likes of ‘darth ocher.’

I was cooler on Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange than I’ve ever been on another lead MCU actor, but I like him more in Infinity War, I think.

I was just mesmerized by the machine, but this being the first I’d heard of the incident, curiosity took me to the actual YouTube page (I know) and there is a lot of feeback framing him as a people’s champion. This comment in particular caught my eye:

I get what is being said here about the meat-and-potatoes aspect of the conflict being seldom seen or felt, but considering that this episode includes a Martian nuke striking Earth and likely killing millions, ‘theoretical’ isn’t a word I’d use and, uh...there’s definitely an impact.

I totally get what you’re saying, but I’m fine with the show keeping the timing neat and compressed. Realism, in this case, would drag the scene out. If anything, they should’ve staggered the launches for simultaneous impact.

For my money, having watched the film, it does a terrific job of being as good as it can reasonably be expected to be, even with high standards and it’s way that more than does justice to the character-driven working model of the MCU.

I have a feeling that they kind of did go that route, just without making it obvious in the titles.

I just saw it myself, but it doesn’t seem as though we saw the same film. It was not predictable to me, and there definitely were some consequences.

Same thoughts here. I’m typically a critic of the story and character concessions that the Avengers films make in service of getting everyone onscreen at the same time, and Dowd’s review read reasonably to me yesterday.

Pine, Plummer, Hemsworth, Lloyd, Pike (character)

I’ve been hoping that Sofia Boutella’s Jayla character from *Beyond* joins the crew. it would be a perfect way to transition easily, given Yelchin’s passing.

Yes.

Averaged to per post, still great.

Ant-Man was the perfect palate-cleanser after Age of Ultron, and it hadn’t occurred to me until reading these comments how yet again, a (from the sound of it) bloated Avengers film will be followed fairly quickly by Ant-Man.

They should call this iteration Fleetwood Mac: Bronco. Because they, uh, bucked Buckingham. Also it sounds really cool. I didn’t sleep well last night.

He cannot win, but there are alternatives to losing...

*agrees in earnest*

In this case, with these ‘Star Wars Stories’ we’ve kinda been sold the idea that they’re one-shots—reinforced by Rogue One, regardless of that cast’s contracts—and this one is called Solo and has had doom and gloom clouding its forecasts for most of the last year. Of all the Star Wars minutiae that makes headlines,…