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Yeah, nah. There was a major difference between Beta Ray Bill (and similar hammer-wielders) and those who took on Thor’s name.

The ability of someone to take both the name and power of Thor when the Odinson is currently unworthy has been established for longer than most of the modern audience has been alive.

You and he were...buddies, weren’t you?

Everything about Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was brilliant but Matt Berry was my favorite part.

Does it say anything that I do not remember that scene at all? Like, I remember him getting the ring, I remembering his roommate played by Taika Waititi (because), I remember his using the ring to make a race car, and the climax of the film, him fighting against a giant space fart, but I do not remember the scene you…

Also, he did essentially the same thing in Guardians 2 and beat Ego. His anger at Ego for killing his mom propels him to use his passion to control the planet’s power, and kill him.

Me usually bristle at commenters attacking articles as clickbait, but this one was pretty stupid. “Hey, you may not have noticed this thing in Avengers that we all directly saw happen on screen and was talked about in movie.” It like saying “you’ll never believe what biblical relic Indiana Jones was looking for in Raid…

Yep. Strange looked through over 14 million possible futures and there was only one possible path to victory: the one we saw unfold in the film. Strange knew Quill would fuck up the plan; in fact he was counting on it.

The thing of it is that Starlord’s actions are in character. This is the guy who got into a pissing contest with Rocket over who was the better pilot that ended up crashing their ship. He has demonstrated a very distinct lack of emotional maturity in the previous movies. Starlord isn’t a villain, he’s a flawed…

Spoilerrific Infinity War takes - tl;dr, I give it a C+/B-:

That sounds bad...but were these pirates “a gang of cyberhacking identity thieves with a giant computer aboard an abandoned cruise liner”? (also featuring a rewritten Major General’s Song to include topical Trump and Middle East references) (AND an incoherent meta second act that revolved around putting on a play or…

My pop culture weekend?

I once watched a production of As You Like It where everyone dressed like hippies and rollerskated the whole time, except Touchstone, who was dressed like Andre the Giant.

I fell down a youtube rabbit hole of clips thanks to probably you or whoever posted a clip from it last week here. Just endless quips. Like what I imagine being in an improv class that’s always good would be like.

Well, in the case of [redacted], they just needed someone who looked similar in the makeup, and could match the voice, which could have been two separate people for all I know. I have to say that part was a bit of a surprise, at that point of the movie, I was expecting a “cosmic” Marvel character, like Eternity or…

Not just character development, but casting. I’m hard-pressed to think of a single MCU character who was seriously miscast; there have been a few who were written badly (I’m lookin’ at you, Malekith), but pick “wrong actor for the role” and I just draw a blank.

- HIPPIE: (playing crazy space-guitar) We’re gonna find our freeeedom, man, gonna spread our looooove, man...

I once watched a production of Pirates of Penzance in which the woman all dressed like anime characters, the pirates carried water pistols, and the police wore t-shirts for The Beatles. So very, very bad.

I watched this week both parts of Fritz Lang’s Indian Tomb story. I wish I didn’t love so intensely these sort of colourful romantic fantasies, straight from the fevered colonial imagination! The Indian Tomb lays on the Eastern exoticism so thick I think it could have on its own inspired Professor Said to construct…