This is a silly argument for multiple reasons.

I mean, I would think it would be more stupid for a millennia-spanning organisation of space-age monks who were naturally attuned to a mystical, omnipresent energy field to never question why some people were strong in the Force and others not, despite clear evidence that it was hereditary.

Genetic mutations are capable of both spontaneous formation and being inherited, so that’s not a problem at all.

I’m afraid The Mandalorian is post-ROTJ (seven years later, I believe), so no McGregor for multiple reasons.

I still don’t get this argument. While Force-sensitivity is something that anyone can be born with, the OT also makes it clear that it’s hereditary, and therefore almost certainly has a genetic/biological component (which is perfectly in keeping with how genetics work in real life). So the fact that it can be tested…

Huh, I would not have guessed that Taloon was popular enough to merit his own spin-off. And that commercial is incredibly charming. I’m not sure I’m willing to add a Super Famicom game to my list (unless there’s an English translation floating around somewhere), but it is tempting after watching that. Maybe I’ll check…

Backlogged: Stocking Up On Swords of Malice Edition

Well, only until alternate-Hawkeye returns to his own time, which wouldn’t take long. I’m sure they’d get away with it.

I mean, once the Snap was reversed and Hank Pym was returned to life, Pym Particles would no longer have been a scarce resource. The reason they had a limited supply in the first place was that he was dead and no one else knew how to make more.

On closer inspection of my original post I realise that it seemed like I was talking about saving the original, dead version of Widow, which I wasn’t. The point of my post was to come up with a way of saving a *version* of Nat, who would then continue on in the MCU. And since the only difference between this Nat and…

And another person fails to understand what I’m saying... I know OG Nat is dead, and will remain so. I’m saying that you go back in time and pluck pre-sacrifice Nat from the past (i.e. an alternate timeline) and return with her to the future. Not only do you save pre-sacrifice Nat’s life in that timeline, but you also…

You’re missing the point; she only sacrificed herself because it was the only way to get the Stone. If Cap is there to just hand an already liberated Stone to Hawkeye, then the sacrifice doesn’t need to happen in the first place, and she gets to live. The sacrifice is only required to initially retrieve the Stone from…

This occurred to me while I was reading this article, so I figured I’d share it here. In Endgame, the heroes come to the conclusion that Natasha’s deal with the Red Skull cannot be reversed, not even if the Soul Stone is returned, and so that version of her must remain dead. So why doesn’t Cap just return to the point…

But it’s up to a film to define how time travel works, and then stick to those rules. If it breaks them, then the audience can indeed point out that time travel doesn’t work that way. (The same can be said of any other superhero ‘rule’, e.g. lifting Mjlonir means you are ‘worthy’.) I think Endgame ultimately does a…

Not quite related to balance, but one of my favourite things about progression in JRPGs is starting small (fighting goblins or slimes with a copper sword or a wooden club, for instance) and building from there until my party ends up slaying a dark god of some kind, so the fact that I’ll get to do that multiple times…

Backlogged: Healie Helps Out! Edition

It probably wouldn’t mesh well with Waititi’s tone, but I’d love to see them adapt the God Butcher story line. Have Thor meet (and fight) Hercules in the Mediterranean, 1000 years before the present, before they both end up battling (and seemingly defeating) the God Butcher. Then the villain re-emerges in the present…

Yeah, the more I read about Wizardry, the clearer it becomes that it’s one of the truly foundational building blocks for the entire medium. Which, in turn, makes the incorporation of so many elements of D&D pretty interesting too. And I suppose it’s a testament to my completionism that I already have most of those…

Backlogged: Sleeping in the Stables Edition

I’m hoping they choose Nightmare as the sequel’s main villain. Crazy/scary dream-sequences galore, and they can also throw Moon Knight in there for good measure.