But, like, are they equally bad? Or even close to equally bad? Only one group is full of murderous, heroin-peddling ninjas.

You wake up to find yourself in the middle of a vast wasteland. It looks like it might be the Australian outback, but you can't say for sure. All you do know is that there's no sign of civilization anywhere, and very little in the way of landmarks.

Yes, but Thanos has had about 5 minutes of combined screen time, and no one has actually fought him yet. He's building power, not exercising it. The Hand, on the… other… hand, have now had 26 full hours of content - 21 if we're being generous and excluding the Punisher episodes - in which to make themselves known.

He doesn't. Just comments a variation on that every week.

I guess part of that's me not knowing much at all about the mutant part of the Marvel Universe.

I hope that's true, but it's still not a good move, dramatically, to make your audience sit through two seasons of a villainous group before letting you know what their plan is.

NO CAPES JOKES PRIMARY COLORS!!

If the third friggin' Thor movie beats the friggin' Justice League movie, I'm going to laugh my ass off.

"Why is each Justice League, minus Wonder Woman, personal active only during cloudy days or nighttime or in tunnels?"

He's just had too much Velocity 9, is all.

For some inexplicable reason, they premiered these two at 11:00 AM today. Which they've never done before, to my knowledge. Thankfully they still reran it during the normal timeslot.

It is quite nice that the writers respected Thrawn enough to not have him make any mistakes. He only failed because of insubordination and something otherworldly that no sane - or insane - person would ever expect.

The weird thing about the Force is that if Bendu were completely neutral and implacable, he would be the platonic ideal of the light side. So putting him 'in the middle' actually necessitates giving him a temper, so long his anger is mostly righteous. But even then, not entirely righteous.

But this is the second Hand-centric season in a row to leave that kind of thing hanging. Which makes it feel less deliberate and more like a question the writers genuinely can't answer.

Dead daddies make for the best issues.

*pumps fists in the air manically*

I mean… Batman.

I don't want more, nor do I necessarily want less. I just think cutting the episode count is a scapegoat. If you're hired to write 13 episodes, write a story that can be broken into 13 parts. Don't write one that's 10 and then shrug your shoulders about what to do with the other three.

And Tony.
And Thor.
And Loki.
And Bruce.
And Peter.
And Gamora.
And Nebula.
And probably T'Challa.

But lo and behold, he did come across CRIME, because these professional criminals are also ninjas with a flair for the (needlessly) theatrical.