I think the thing I hate most about the Hero’s Journey is that it assumes “heroes” are lazy slobs, i.e., the Refusal of the Call. “Waaah! I don’t wanna do this!” As opposed to characters who act out of personal principle, like Steve Rogers or the Doctor, or are just there to do a job, like Ellen Ripley.

I agree that Brie Larson was great.

To be fair... If you’re going to post such a lengthy exposition on the woman’s performance you could at least spell her name correctly, even allowing for the extra lack of care it takes to misspell it in two different ways.

I loved the Mar-Vell twist, my only complaint is that we didn’t get more time with her (hopefully they change that in sequels, or dare I say, streaming prequels?)

I was also super happy with the treatment of the Skrulls, because they’d already done the whole “enemies infiltrating our government” thing with HYDRA, and given the Skrulls’ comic history of being Bad Guys, this was a nice change. But also, it allows them to be a one-and-done “villain,” now safely escorted to the…

Counterpoint: Larson was great. She reminded me of Air Force people I’ve known: all business, distant, with a “I know something you don’t” sense of humor. Sam Jackson is just... Sam Jackson, in every movie and every role he’s ever been in.

It’s her name. Get it right.

It wasn’t even an accident! =D

There is no “second” Tesseract, there is only one Tesseract. It was part of Project Pegasus, Mar-Vell took it up to her ship, Goose ate it and then coughed it up on Fury’s desk, and Fury gave it back to Project Pegasus, which is now a joint NASA-SHIELD project.

The post-credits scene did not take place after the finger snap. You can tell by the ‘90s computer and the “N. Fury” deskplate that it’s Fury’s SHIELD desk in the ‘90s.

Goose came from The Danger Zone. The Highway from The Danger Zone.

I assumed that Mar-Vell had brought Goose there as a pet, and who else would give a shit about their lead scientist wanting to keep a harmless cat around?  It’s a big top-secret base in the middle of nowhere; let Lawson keep a cat if she wants to.

Thanks, I wondering if they really didn’t say his name earlier, for fans with long memories, and I’ll take that as “yes”.

This is a post release disscussion of the movie, so spoilers are a given; also, the original post i replied to also spoiled things.

In the timeline, Mar-Vell was developing the light engine for several years before she was killed in 1989. Howard Stark was killed in 1991. I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility to assume the breakthrough on the arc reactor technology happened thanks to her research probably working alongside him. He was…

At first, I found it odd that the name of Jude Law’s character was never spoken aloud until after his heel turn, but now I realize that it was to create greater suspense for the comics-savvy people in the audience.

I get really uncomfortable with the idea of a race being 100% evil, because sentient beings don’t work like that. It’s a fundamentally essentialist concept, and kind of uninteresting as well.

At the end of Captain America: TFA, Howard fishes the Tesseract out of the sea. It’s what he uses to develop the arc reactor. Presumably, he gives it to the government.

My only point of confusion, or did I miss something, was where Goose came from?

The comics have expanded the Skrull and Kree stories a lot, so they have several different factions now (And both Empires are basically in shambles and divided after the Annihilation event).