Eww.

"It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out. A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.

I always find it funny that House on Haunted Hill and The Haunting [of Hill House] are easy picks for my two favorite horror movies, though for very different reasons.

Truly a fate worse than cancellation.

You didn't notice William Mapother's cameo?

"If he wins, he comes with me."
"And if he loses?"
"…You can have Asgard."
"Really?"
"I certainly won't have much use for it."

Very rarely during Marvel movies do I sit on the edge of my seat wondering if the heroes are going to manage to save the day.

But is Logan the third Wolverine movie, or the ninth X-Men movie? Or the tenth X-Men movie counting Deadpool? Or the seventh X-Men movie in that continuity? Or the eighth X-Men movie in that continuity counting Deadpool? Or, frankly, the fourth X-Men movie in that continuity? And hell, let's also throw in the…

I'm thinking along the same lines, with the added detail that Loki manages to escape from occupied Asgard to go looking for Thor. But the Grandmaster will only release him if he wins the tournament, or something.

Maybe, but whatever Avengers film follows Infinity War is, like, five or even six years down the road.

I liked Civil War a lot, but the most likely reason? Marvel wanted to make sure they did that story before RDJ or Evans had a chance to leave the franchise.

I take issue with the use of the Destroyer because it's in exactly one shot before Thor fights it. So it's like… should this thing be kicking his ass right now? Is it really strong or has Thor become weaker? The stakes aren't clear in the moment.

As someone who watched the trailer with the sound on, you definitely cut off the wrong sensory input if avoiding major spoilers was your goal.

Of course, outside the MCU, pretty much everything about the Planet Hulk storyline is rehashed.

I think they could cheat and have Aku lift out neatly. The present stays the same, just better and with a lot fewer dead people. Scaramouche is a friendly nightclub singer. The Scotsman has two legs and is a fancy-pants Lord of some province. Ashi and the other Daughters are now, like, a Girl Scout troop or something.

There are so many time-travel plots that don't bother to consider the butterfly effect, though.

No, nothing super-specific. I just singled out that moment because the composition - his pose, her on his back, him being covered in blood - seems to be at least inviting the comparison.

I want to believe that Jack will make it back to the past somehow, because if he only manages to kill Aku during the show's present, that still means Aku basically won by causing thousands of years of suffering for the world at large.

It wasn't the ladybug's presence, so much as Jack's reaction to it. He let it crawl on his hand and let it go the same way she wanted to as a child, whereas the woman who raised her squished it between her fingers.

I mean, if we want to be really technical it's Toonami, which is neither Cartoon Network nor Adult Swim.