I kind of wanted the payoff to be Nat, the one person at the party who doesn’t try, but the Vision scene works great.

Yeah, that is definitely one of those “everyone had a friend in second grade named Russell who loved orange soda and always wore a purple shirt” moments.

I sometimes wonder if the negative reaction to “it’s just setting up future movies” was subconsciously tied to fearing those set-ups would not pay off, and thus feeling like they were a waste of time.  Now in knowing the pay-off exists, those set-ups no longer created the anxiety of unused potential.

Please tell me Hank McCoy used it.

I seem to be in the minority of liking Quicksilver’s effects here over DoFP.

Sometimes?

TAKE YOUR STAR

I was honestly expecting the reveal that they were characters in a glitching video game, and the disappearing elements represented the programmers scrubbing items in an attempt to fix the code.

Jake Sisko does go on a madcap quest to get his dad a Willy Mays baseball card for his birthday. As pop culture references go, this is pretty low-key. I mean, how many millennials know who Willy Mays even is?

The problems with ASM2 have less to do with the script, in and of itself, and more to do with the movie they filmed being a completely different thing (remember Shailene Woodley actually filmed a whole mess of scenes as Mary Jane), and what we got was a Frankenstein’s Monster assemblage of two-thirds of the movie.…

Isn’t it funny how it was HUGELY successful but its pop-culture penetration has been decidedly minimal? I mean, one literally has to be reminded that it existed.

If “moving the story ahead a decade while the characters only age a year” isn’t the most comic-booky thing of all time, I don’t know what is.

Also it went into the heart of what makes Legos fun.  Like, on some level, yes, it’s a 2-hour commercial for Legos, but... a good one.

Usually planting “seed bullets”...

Yay China White! Boo not enough China White!

When they put the “not based on anything real” disclaimer at the end, you know it was only vaguely taken from something real.  When they put it at the beginning, it TOTALLY was taken from something real.

You have to believe the SVU writers room is a constant game of, “Wow, that’s horrible.  Can anyone think of a way to make it worse?”

Also I imagine her vision would be pretty impaired in that situation.  Normal daylight would be like snow-blindness.  Not effective for aiming.

Fr’sn¥k?  Is that you?  How you been?

I was thinking, “Alara has two uninjured family members, but she sends her dad, with the severely injured hand, to rescue the captain. That’s... not smart.”