The most surprising thing in the episode was that Peggy was still alive when Ed got back to the cabin. Given that Dodd's evil and she's been torturing him, I was fully expecting her to be a goner (and in a pretty gruesome way) once he got loose. Why on earth would he knock her out and leave her lying around?

The point of that raid was to leave Otto alone and exposed. Killing the nurse was necessary to that purpose.

My favorite bit was her idly eating beans from the same spoon, then realizing he said no, he didn't want beans. That was damn near perfect.

Lucas is better at generating ideas than executing them, so this makes sense.

How old was Ahsoka supposed to be in Clone Wars? Because she came off as pretty young (late teens?) and she was a Republic military officer in the war. The Kanan comic book presents him as being as young as or younger than Ezra when he went to war, just in time for Order 66.

He knows what Egyptians look like. He probably also knows what movies that don't get out of development because they don't have marketable stars look like.

If you've seen the show, you'd know that Kanan and Ezra are nowhere near as capable as the heroes of the clone wars. Both are shown as having inferior knowledge of the force to Ahsoka, They spent an entire season constantly outclassed by a single Inquisitor, someone who's not as powerful as a Sith apprentice. After…

It's fine to blast Stormtroopers, throw them to their deaths, or blow them up with IEDs. It's also fine to destroy Imperial ships with hundreds, perhaps even thousands of crew members—and it's not like we see escape pods coming off those vessels before they blow up, a la GI Joe plane violence.

The Bush administration was so damn "transparent" that the U.S. wound up invading Iraq in order to seize weapons they knew were not there.

Bendis doesn't have that much clout at Marvel after Age of Ultron…which is why he was signed to a long-term contract well after that "disappointment," and has continued receiving prestige assignments in the company.

Well, Tony's the guy who'll build you a cool new weapon or a plane that can fly in space. Nifty stuff to have. But Reed's the guy you go to if you have a disease you caught because you got bit by a creature in space. The guy who cured your alien rabies, or who kept a pod of Brood from hatching out of you, he tends…

It's been a bit since Pym's been in the mix—he was technically on the mad scientist side of the big Hickman Avengers arc, but he was mostly sidelined exploring the multiverse or somesuch.

The biggest shame of Marvel not having the rights to the Fantastic Four is that they don't have Doom to use as a villain. The second-biggest shame is that you're missing the full spectrum of mad science genius types if you don't have Reed to go along with Stark and Banner and T'Challa.

Going back to the characters' comic book roots, Stark was always the former defense contractor who was worried about the Avengers keeping their U.S. government security clearance/UN authorization, and Cap has a long tradition of losing faith in the government when they fail to live up to his moral standards (there's…

It's an annoying business-y phrase that doesn't scan well in writing or when spoken. IP is one of the few abbreviations I'll use in conversation instead of just to save a few keystrokes when typing.

"They all said the same thing: ‘George, you should do it!’ I don’t think anybody wanted to follow up that act at the time. It was an honor, but it would’ve been too daunting.”

I wonder if AoS is really that low budget, or if they're just spending what money they have poorly. I can believe that things are tightfisted, since TV is one of the MCU things Ike Perlmutter still has input on. However, they seem to spend an awful lot of their CGI budget on establishing shots of planes. Is Flash's…

I liked Agent Carter, but until the last couple of episodes, the show's stakes were incredibly ultra-low, which is one reason why the show seemed inessential. It's hard to have believable peril when you know that nothing too bad is going to happen to Peggy (or Tony Stark's dad—he has to grow up to become Roger…

The Riddler convinces Batman he has a brain cloud?

"Talking to Variety, the future superhero discussed the attendant pressures of having to give his all to save dozens of people—i.e., all the Warner Bros. executives who are going to get fired really, really fast if the company’s billion-dollar effort to build a DC Comics movie franchise doesn’t work."