So hold the phone, is the show saying all you need for Carol Danvers powers is to copy her DNA, not get blasted by an Infinity Stone? I guess you could but it seems lazy, like that should not be sufficient for any and all superpowers.

A billion sounds pretty reasonable for breaking all those laws of physics. So was this just to explain how he could travel or will this feature in the ending?

Or, you know, showing how those measures are all overcome would be INTERESTING in a spy thriller!

I mean Captain Marvel would make sense, but....I don't expect it to make sense.

So whether Talos is dead or not, how does Fury “win” this? Is he gonna pull the helicarrier out of mothballs and drop it on Gravik? Is he going to make an impassioned speech that will turn the tide? Is some overpowered special guest star gonna show up? Are the communist space ants going to show up and save the day?…

A spy thriller with a coat of MCU paint is a perfectly cromulent form of entertainment. In theory, this is not good.

Yeah that's the sorta laziness that permeates the show.

For Loyalist marines that’s old, chaos marines can live indefinitely due to being possessed or spending most of their time where time has no meaning...

These are not the Inquisitors I’m waiting to see on TV.

Well DS9 was ‘dark’ for its time, it’s quaint by contemporary standards. ‘In the Pale Moonlight’ was a good tale of an ends-justifying-the-means descent into evil spinning out of control,kind of like...every single episode of Breaking Bad for 5 seasons. Sisko didn’t have to dissolve a kid in a barrel.

I can’t believe the griping about the Snap not being undone such that no one knows it happened, that was the one thing I was certain could not possibly happen, so I was really excited about that. Actual consequences!

Not mentioned yet: the fake SWAT attack on Fury. Great for being very “grounded” with some comics fantasy sci fi flavor.

Of course it makes no sense, if they fully followed through on the consequences of all the things they say can be done in the comic book world the world would break. It’s comics, not tabletop role-playing.

Literally nothing about warmongering super-advanced aliens or earthlings in comic books wage war makes a lick of sense. Best we can hope for is to have well done characters that we care what happens to them and just go along with whatever they tell us about the nonsense going on around them.

Well in the mvoie this is quite possibly all happening too quickly to marshal any US military help beyond War Machine(though 5 years after aliens came out of a hole in the sky maybe they’d be working on something?)I was thinking about this though, you know if Michael Bay was directing this there would be A-10s and…

Well, maybe the way they’re going to it is that the movie won’t really be about our heroes, it’ll be about Thanos.

Because killing people with completely fake or anachronistic weapons is A-OK?

Well, yeah, that’s sort of the nature of the story. Full-on comic book outer-space wackiness. They’ve spent a decade building up the story and the technical ability to make these movies that will be basically the biggest cartoons ever.

Well I hope it’s not time travel because it right now looks like it will be time travel, I’d rather be surprised. And mostly because ugh, mucking with the timeline to save the future is just a step too wacky even for this genre, it’s the ultimate plot hole generator. It’s also not clever, there have been tons of time…

Based on what we’ve seen, some sort of time travel shenanigans would be the obvious thing. I hope not, but they have been acclimatizing audiences to more and more comic-book silliness for 10 years, and it is a staple of the genre.