Redmond Washington? One of those looks like my Uncles house.

Yes, but a $500,000 gift to a fund to build a new building would easily get you on the “look at this kid’s application extra generously” list. Frankly, a $100,000 gift would get you on that list. At the very least, it implies you have even more where that came from. Source: I am a former college fundraiser at one…

Do you think they’d already tried the cheap route - $5,000 for a neuropsych indicating a need for extra time, plus 30 sessions at $500 an hour for a crazy great tutor?

There are no bootstraps on penny loafers.

Exactly. We’re talking about Aunt Becky here-- she doesn’t have the kind of money it took the Kushners to get Jared into Harvard. 

I thought these people knew that they were supposed to pay for a new building or buy the Dean a new car?

USC is a private school. You’re thinking of the UC system of state schools, but some of them are just as competitive (UCLA and UC Berkeley have a 16% admit rate).

I’m from a small population rural state so forgive my ignorance, but is getting into a state school as a CA resident really that difficult? Or is USC not part of the state system? Sorry, in Maine USM is part of the UMaine system.

Yeah, I loved this movie, but my biggest complaint was that I just wanted more of everything. More or her life on Hala, more of her life on Earth, more of her friendship with Maria, etc. It was just A LOT to fit into one movie, as Cate points out, and even though I cried a bunch (the Stan Lee tribute, gah!), I was a…

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?