1) One of the other witches in the staking scene was her mother, or perhaps the mother/daughter language was being used metaphorically to refer to a mentor/mentee relationship. Either way, the other witches in the witch coven staked her because she was breaking the rules of the coven and stealing advanced spells. The…

I really wanted them to survive somehow, and only partially because I’m very partial to the Young Avengers and am hoping for a future YA show or movie. I think she’s going to accidentally summon Dormammu or somesuch trying to resurrect the kids.

I think you’re right about the intention of the writers/directors. However, I think people need to be mindful of the other ways in which a message or piece of art can be interpreted.

I think he wanted to kill the other Vision, perhaps because he thinks of Vision only as a weapon. And he clearly also wanted to kill Wanda to end her takeover of the town. But otherwise his motivations are a little unclear.

It’s comedic wordplay. Presumably, Haywood doesn’t think his resurrected version of Vision is actually “bad” (because everyone thinks they’re the hero of their own story), so from his in-universe perspective the wordplay doesn’t make sense. But the joke was for the benefit of the audience, not the characters.

My assumption was that Agatha was mind-controlling him to be “Fietro” in a similar way that Wanda was mind-controlling the rest of the town, and his “hurdur Bohner” response was coming from the mind-controlled persona. That’s why his whole demeanor changed when Monica removed the necklace he was wearing.

One of the best little moments is when Billy says he likes it in Agnes’ house because she’s quiet on the inside. Super creepy.

Yeah, I assumed he’d injected himself with the nanobots, but it wasn’t ever explained as far as I noticed. It was a little confusing.

Okay, so, uh, the bomb was supposed to kill all the nanobots, right? That was the entire point of it. So the “and then the ending” didn’t make sense to me, and I think the movie would’ve been stronger without it.

I’m paying ~$100/mo for 50Mbps wired internet, plus I have to deal with Comcast trying to slip in “service fees” or whatever every couple months that you have to call and wait on hold for 30 minutes to get them to remove, so I’d definitely jump on the chance to pay the same price for faster internet and (hopefully)…

I was prepared to say something like this, but the shade here appears to be coming from actual rural broadband co-ops and such that actually have a mission of providing internet to rural areas, rather than from companies like Comcast that DGAF.

What wired broadband providers have over Starlink at the moment is the ability to offer customers different pricing tiers at difference speeds.

I think Tony was right to a certain extent (and so are you), but Cap’s initial position was basically “I don’t want to work under those conditions, so if that happens I’m out” - which is also completely reasonable. It wasn’t until Bucky got arrested that things went from “the band broke up” to “civil war”.

I’m a little surprised at the number of zombie apocalypse shows. Maybe it’s just me, but living through an actual global pandemic has pretty much killed my appetite for shows or movies about deadly global pandemics.

Ooh, that’s juicy. So did they know they weren’t, or was this one of those things where people are told false things about their own heritage? (And IMO it makes sense to make it a civil infraction to knowingly apply for targeted programs under false pretenses. Like how people who falsely claim to be veterans in order…

Isn’t this the kind of speech that they were created to give a space to?

A lot of white dudes seem to think that they’re entitled to success (middle-class job, pretty and supportive wife, a nice house, etc) just by showing up and trying. That’s not actually how life works, but I think they believe that. And when that doesn’t work, they want to find somebody to blame.

Have you read The Three Body Problem?

3 years was the typical tenure in the old series as well, with of course the notable exception of Tom Baker as you mentioned.

Personally, I don’t think “solving” the burn is really very important. The burn is a plot device that neatly explains the change in fortune of the Federation. And it does that. Even if they figure out what happened, it doesn’t necessarily reverse the situation they’re in, you know?